Chapter Lead

2 months ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Admiral Full time

The Admiral Group is a multinational financial services provider, where technology is key to our success. We have an opportunity for a Chapter Lead - QA to define and execute the test plans to aid the launch of our new pet in-house product.

You will work within the Business Technology Group and be responsible for growing the capabilities of your chapter, test automation, actively write test plans and scripts, undertake technical testing as well as co-ordinating UAT with the Pet business users. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Pet implementation at an early stage and be a key team member.

**Job Purpose**
- As we work within the Scaled Agile framework, we are looking for someone who can work both independently and as part of a team within a fast-paced and changing environment. This requires an individual who can deliver to agreed timelines, communicating effectively, and thinking innovatively.
- Experience of working in an integrated team, refining, and prioritising a backlog and delivering in an Agile methodology is a must.
- Willingness to perform hand-on testing as required

**Responsibilities**
- Defining tools and frameworks to develop and maintain test automation.
- Identification of test automation opportunities.
- Preparation of test scripts and the ability to execute the tests whilst the test team is being establishing.
- Work closely with the chosen third-party supplier to define strategy and best practices.
- Look for opportunities to “Shift left” testing and test automation.
- Providing clear and accurate documentation for the tests and test automation.
- Contributing towards the continuous improvement of testing and test automation practices.
- Integrating automated tests with the CI/CD pipeline.
- Sharing Best Practice and owning the testing process in all cadence ceremonies..
- Coordinating and monitoring UAT with business users, responsible for ensuring test signoffs prior to go-live.
- Responsible for helping to define the release processes with the chosen third party supplier.

You will also be expected to keep your skills up to date by following advancements in testing and test automation.

**Skills and Experience**
- Experience using both internal and external delivery teams.
- Experience using 3rd party service providers.
- At least 3 years of experience in building complex test automation framework.
- Automated API/component integration testing with experience with Postman or similar tooling.
- Strong experience in Selenium and BDD with Cucumber or similar framework.
- Experience with non-functional testing with JMeter or similar.
- Experience utilising browser stack and completing digital testing.
- Experience of working in an agile environment and the role of QA in agile ceremonies.
- Experience stubbing and creating automation for microservice architecture at distributed scale.
- Working knowledge of JIRA.
- Real passion for clean code, automation testing and continuous delivery.

**Desirable Skills and Experience**
- An enthusiastic mentor for team to adopt automation as a definition of done.
- Leading test automation strategy and mentoring testers on the automation testing process.
- Experience of software development.
- Line management and mentorship experience required when team expands.

**Interview Process**

There will be a one-stage interview process for this role (one 60-minute competency-based formal interview). Interviews will take place throughout May.

**Location**

For Hybrid workers (within a 50-mile radius of our Cardiff HQ) there is an expectation to work from the office twice a month. For remote workers (outside of a 50-mile radius of our Cardiff HQ) there is an expectation to attend the office a handful of times a year when required (i.e big meetings, workshops etc).

**Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance**

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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