Automation Test Lead

Your role

You will be an Automation Test Lead in Quality Engineering and Test Practice, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving impactful value creation for clients.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement effective automation test strategies and frameworks aligned with business goals.
• Experience creating or adapting automation frameworks.
• Lead the development and maintenance of automated test solutions using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, WebDriver, Tricentis Tosca, or Keysight EggPlant.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including developers, testers, analysts, and architects to ensure quality is embedded throughout the SDLC.
• Guide teams in BDD practices using tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow.
• Manage and version control test assets using GIT and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence without authority.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to align testing efforts with business objectives.
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels to communicate test strategies, progress, and outcomes effectively.
• Exposure to testing systems using AI technologies.
• Contribute to the evolution of testing practices in Agile, DevOps, and Waterfall environments.

Your skills and experience

• Proficiency in at least one OOP language (Java, Python, C#).
• Hands‑on experience with functional and automation testing across web, API, and mobile platforms.
• Familiarity with test management tools (Jira, TFS, ALM).
• Experience with Postman, Ready API, Soap UI for API testing.
• ISTQB Foundation certification (or willingness to obtain it with company support).
• Experience in continuous testing and test optimisation in CI/CD environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to align testing efforts with business objectives.

Benefits

• Access to Capgemini’s training and development opportunities, including thinktanks, hackathons, and 250,000 courses with external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Management, Cybersecurity qualifications, and more.
• Positive work‑life balance with a hybrid‑first approach and flexible working arrangements for all UK employees.

Work arrangement

Hybrid working: blend of company offices, client sites, and home (not 100% at home).

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