Quality Automation Specialist

About the Role: Quality Automation Specialist

Join NatWest Group as a Quality Automation Specialist and play a key role in driving automated testing activities across all delivery models. You will support teams in developing quality solutions, enabling continuous integration and assurance of defect-free deployments of customer value. This role offers great exposure to professional development opportunities by working closely with feature teams and various stakeholders. This is an associate-level position.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to the transformation of testing through quality processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance control, accuracy, and integrity.
• Ensure repeatable, constant, and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea-to-value lifecycle, reducing costs or time to market.
• Collaborate with colleagues at multiple levels and with cross-domain, domain, platform, and feature teams to integrate quality into all activities.
• Support the design of automation test strategies aligned with business or program goals.
• Action and evolve predictive and intelligent testing approaches using automation and innovative testing products.
• Refine the scope of manual and automated testing, create automated test scripts, user documentation, and artifacts.
• Design and build a low-maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests usable across systems and domains in an end-to-end capacity.
• Apply testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle and mandatory, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

The skills you'll need:

We are seeking a candidate with experience in automated testing, particularly within an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You should be an innovative thinker capable of identifying opportunities and designing solutions, with the ability to develop complex automation code. A strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working within an Agile team is essential, along with the ability to connect daily tasks to the strategic vision of the feature.

We’ll Also Look For You To Have:

• At least five years of experience in end-to-end and automation testing using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, Cucumber, TestNG, and JUnit.
• Strong programming skills in Java and Python.
• A background in designing, developing, and implementing automation frameworks in new environments.
• Proficiency in API testing using Postman and SoapUI.
• Experience with DB2, Oracle, and NoSQL databases.
• Skills in build tools like Maven and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitLab.
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

Key skills/competency

• Automated Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• CI/CD
• Java
• Python
• Selenium WebDriver
• Rest Assured
• Cucumber
• TestNG
• JUnit