Test Automation Lead

At Worldline, our technology addresses persistent challenges of the payment world. We design and operate leading digital payment and transactional solutions that enable sustainable economic growth and reinforce trust and security in our societies. If you are a highly-skilled **AUTOMATION TEST LEAD**, then get ready to join our company.

We have many hardworking and dedicated peers that would love for you to work with them. We are committed to continuous improvement. We are always looking for new and innovative ways to improve quality, reduce costs, build excellent solutions, and grow customer happiness. We would like to welcome an organized, innovative and process driven colleague to our team.

Worldline are building a brand new, small team of Test Automation enthusiasts to look across our product line. The team will focus on automation strategy and processes, tooling choices, assisting other teams with their test automation, tackling technical debt, and ensuring we have a unified approach to test automation that everyone can follow. This role is central to that team’s ambition, providing technical leadership to ensure the automation strategy is followed and developed, and personal leadership to create a high performing, forward-thinking and dynamic team

**Your day-to-day responsibilities include**:

- You ensure...
- test automation maps back to functional and non-functional demands, maintaining the traceability of requirements to outcomes.
- You champion...
- the use of test automation over manual testing, pushing our ‘Automation First’ strategy, and the need for all branches of the Delivery team to engage to make it a success.
- You build...
- relationships with the delivery teams and engineers already delivering test automation, and with those who are starting their test automation journey.
- You develop...
- your own skills and those of the teams you work with, through continuous learning
- You run
- a small team of professionals whose mission is to build and enhance the Test Automation capability across all UK&I deliveries
- You lead
- by example
- You coordinate and support...
- your team members in their work
- You take responsibility for
- the work you deliver, and the work your team delivers, in equal measure.

**Signs of success**
- You deliver
- strategic reviews of automation strategy, tooling and process, to ensure we don’t stand still and lose competitive advantage.
- You support
- the Head of Testing and Programme Test Managers by building on good practice, calling out bad practice, and leading the way when we need to improve.
- You tackle
- automation technical debt in an existing product with the same enthusiasm and commitment you would bring to automating the testing of a brand new product.
- technical and business problems to find solutions and workarounds in the automation of complex business functions
- resistance to new and alternative ideas with enthusiasm and determination
- You seek
- automation solutions that align with the technical and business roadmaps within WL UKI
- You identify
- bad practice and areas for technical and procedural improvement
- You follow through on
- delivering quality, ensuring that Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies are regularly reviewed for progress.

**Skills we can’t do without**:

- You are certified as...
- ISEB / ISTQB certified - Foundation
- You have profound experience in...
- Test automation strategies
- Technical team leading
- Java development
- test automation frameworks and tools, for functional and non-functional testing
- Behaviour Driven Development using Cucumber framework / Gherkin syntax
- at least 2 of the following tools: Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, Postman/Newman
- experience of Agile/Scrum/DevOps-based testing, Kanban and hybrid models etc. and understand how testing fits into each model
- distributed delivery teams
- You possess sophisticated knowledge at...
- human interaction and social skills, working with a range of people around the UK&I, and globally
- You have sophisticated **skills** in.
- working with multiple projects simultaneously

**Skills we’d like**:

- You prove solid knowledge of.
- at least one of the following business domains: transaction processing, payments, banking, credit management, transport retailing
- You have a validated understanding of
- Jira / Confluence / Azure DevOps for project delivery
- Selenium Grid / Cross browser testing / 3rd party Device Farms
- Python coding knowledge
- CI / CD Pipelines
- Physical device testing of software embedded into hardware devices
- You are ISTQB certified - Advanced
- You master
- flexibility - the ability and experience to be able to quickly and efficiently adjust to changing work item assignments

**More reasons to join us**:
In addition to joining a global leader in digital transformation, you can also expect an excellent range of benefits. These include: an exciting salary, 25 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, an attr