Senior Automation Engineer ( UK & Ireland )

Purpose

Uniphar are embarking on an ambitious, multi year technology transformation program and are seeking an experienced "Senior Automation Engineer" to join our team. Operating within the Project Management Office, the position is a pivotal role which has high visibility and influence within the wider transformation program.

Key Responsibilities / Outcomes

• Support the Test Manager with all Governance related activities.
• Ensure the right automation approach is documented and agreed.
• Possess an Automation First approach to deliverables.
• Have the ability to work with both Automation & Functional Test Teams.
• Comfortable analysing & agreeing tooling requirements with cross functional team.
• Comfortable with setting up both UI and API testing frameworks.
• Comfortable allocating work to the Test Teams across a number of Projects, agreeing milestones for delivery with Teams, and measuring progress against those milestones.
• Suggest Process and Tooling improvements on a go forward basis.
• Assist with Test Estimation Activities.
• Responsible for Reporting Progress & Issue Escalation on Project(s) to the Test Manager.
• Confident in influencing & driving the various Test Teams to deliver against challenging timelines.
• Work with the Quality Team to ensure CSV Compliance (Inc. artefacts for evidence).
• Assist with defining standards within Test Scripting, Execution & Regression.
• Collaborate with Functional Test Lead for cross over Test Phases (e.g. Regression).
• Collaborative Approach - happy to work with Peers and Senior Stakeholders, and administer information to the Test Teams.
• Willingness to get involved in Test Scripting & Execution to assist the Automation Engineers in times of heavy workload.
• Demonstrate a Quality & Delivery mindset.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years as Senior Automation Tester in complex technology implementations in large scale enterprises.
• Experienced with multi year technology transformation programs a plus.
• Experience on Coordinating multiple Test Teams to ensure deliverables meet the project requirements and the specified quality.
• Strong in depth exposure to SDLC & STLC Phases - comfortable working with Delivery Teams in either Waterfall or Agile methodology (Inc. Hybrid).
• 4+ Years writing functional automation scripts in C#/Java.
• 3+ Years experience testing Rest APIs.
• Experienced in BDD/ATDD type delivery environments - mocking services to write acceptance tests in parallel with development.
• Experienced with Source control management.
• GIT Repository & GitHub Actions for Pipelines.
• Strong Experience with CI/CD.
• Azure Dev Ops Experience.
• ISTQB advantageous, or additional courses or certification in Quality Assurance.
• Experience across a range of technology and product stacks, in some or all: ERP, WMS, CRM, eCommerce, digital, mobile apps, HRIS, SAP an advantage.
• Demonstrable experience of CSV, implementing projects in a GxP regulated environment or Finance ISO standards as a substitute.
• Solid understanding of Test Automation and Non functional testing.
• Experience with mentoring Testers, and the Transfer of Knowledge.
• Teamwork and emotional intelligence, good self management, high value on openn