Test Automation Academy

6 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Answer Digital Full time

**Test Automation Academy - Leeds Hybrid/Flexible**

Answer Digital is an Employee-Owned digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Leeds. We’re looking to recruit our next cohort into our Automation Test Academy to join our existing, growing team of talented Test Consultants.

The Answer Digital Automation Testing Academy is a 12 week approx. programme that equips talent with the most contemporary technical skills and process understanding, and fast tracks them to become project ready Answer Automation Test Engineers.

The Academy combines structured training, self-learning and hands-on Automation Testing, all while giving you the opportunity to understand the role of an automation tester within an agile delivery context. The Academy will provide support in achieving a professional testing qualification (ISTQB).

The programme also provides excellent mentorship from our team of digital experts with those on the Academy learning directly from those pushing the boundaries in live Answer projects.

Graduation from the Academy will vary from person to person but we expect successful completion within 12 weeks.

**Job Type**:Automation Testing Academy Tester

**Location**:Leeds, West Yorkshire (Upon Academy graduation, role may include travel, if/when project requires it)

**Salary**:£27,500 (rising to £30,000 upon graduation of the Academy)

**To be successful in this role**:
You will have a keen and active interest in automation testing, and looking to take those next steps to kickstart your professional career.

You will have a great thirst for learning and forever have your eyes peeled for the next new technology to pick up and try out.

You'll also be excited by the opportunity to work in agile teams to deliver value to clients.

**What you’ll bring to Answer**:
Actively pursuing an interest in automation testing (via academic studies, self studying, and/or in a professional capacity).

Manual functional and regression testing knowledge and experience.

A passion for testing and technology.

**The Programme**:
During the Academy, learning is structured around the below key phases:
Introduction Phase: Intro to Answer and agile ways of working.

Learning Phases 1 & 2: Run over 6 weeks with 3 two-week sprints of practitioner-led training, self learning and hands-on mentoring covering key foundation knowledge and understanding the context of agile project delivery. This includes:
Learning RESTful architecture and principles and building an Automated API testing framework using Java or C#, with database management.

Each phase includes continual check-points and assessment in order to progress.

This programme has been designed to offer you training, support and experience in one of today’s most dynamic and rewarding industries. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please get in touch today

**Career Progression**:
By graduating from the Answer Academy, you will be equipped to work as part of a live project.

This role will involve working in agile teams to deliver innovative solutions for Answer Digital’s customers. Our Academy graduates often progress at pace after completing this 12 week programme. We have seen one of our graduates progress from ‘Graduate’ to ‘Lead Consultant’ in just 3 years after 3 successive promotions - And this isn’t an exception

We’re an Employee-Owned Company. After 12 months - through the Employee Ownership Trust you will be part of the ownership of Answer; a major factor in driving engagement, retention and growth for our people

Competitive salary

Flexible annual leave (buy/sell and carry forward)

Twice a year tax free bonus

Continuous training and development - if you want to learn, we’ll provide all the support you need

Flexible Pension - we match your on contributions up to 5%

Regular tech catch ups/hack events - we also encourage external tech events

A packed social calendar including; Christmas party (partners invited) and Summer away days, monthly and quarterly company team socials.

Free parking at Head Offices in central Leeds, plus Cycle2Work & Green Car Lease schemes to help get you here

The chance to give back - get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech, as well as lots of charity and community events

Hybrid and flexible working - you can vary your working when and where you work, to allow you to collaborate better, feed your creativity, and take the time and space to focus when you need to

**Diversity and Inclusion**

At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion - we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work.

Please speak to our Recruitment team; we are more than happy to help if:
You require financial support during our interview process - whether that’s help with travel expenses or anything else.

There are adjustments we can make in order for you to bring the best version for yourself to our recrui

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