Quality Automation Specialist, UI Test Automation

Join NatWest Group as a Quality Automation Specialist, UI Test Automation

In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities across all delivery models. We’ll look to you to support teams in developing quality solutions and enabling continuous integration and assurance of defect-free deployment of customer value. You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities.

What you'll do

Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy, and integrity. You’ll be making sure repeatable, constant, and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market.

It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform, and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating with stakeholders and feature teams and making sure that automated testing is performed and monitored as an essential part of the planning and product delivery
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience in automated testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll need at least nine years of experience in end-to-end automation testing using enterprise tooling frameworks like UI Automation, Process Automation, Selenium, Playwright, and TypeScript.

You'll need experience in designing, developing, and implementing automation frameworks in new environments with programming and scripting languages like Java, JavaScript, Python, or TypeScript and version control experience using Git.

We’ll also look for you to have:

• Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools as recommended by the enterprise tooling framework
• A background of designing, developing, and implementing automation frameworks in new environments
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management-level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Key skills/competency

• Automated Testing
• UI Test Automation
• Agile Methodologies
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Selenium
• Playwright
• TypeScript
• Java/JavaScript/Python
• Git Version Control
• Automation Framework Design