Test Automation Lead, Delivery Centre- Newcastle at Omnicom in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Agency: Credera Job Function: Consulting Job Subfunction: Business and Change Consulting Job Description: Would you like to be part of a growing engineering capability in a people-centric organisation? Or perhaps work in an open and collaborative learning environment? Are you passionate about technology, people and developing your coding skills? We have got all this and more. Whatever your aspirations, we’re looking for engineers to be part of an exceptional technology capability, providing dedicated engineering capacity for our clients. At Credera, we work with a range of clients and help them to level-up their engineering capabilities in a partnership model. Through our Delivery Centre, we help them build microservices architectures, develop AI and machine learning capabilities and operate cloud infrastructure. As part of the Delivery Centre team, you’ll collaborate with architects, technology consultants and client stakeholders, giving you a chance to hone your skills across the latest technologies, development and operational practices, and cloud platforms, whilst growing your career. The central hub for this position is in Newcastle, but we welcome applicants from across the North-East. We operate a hybrid working policy with an expectation of 60% in office time. We value collaboration and client impact, so our hybrid model is designed to strike a balance between flexibility, in-person connection, and delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients. Responsibilities Our Engineers create products and platforms to transform businesses. Some of the most difficult technical problems now facing organisations have been resolved by our engineers. They have revolutionized how the UK government uses data and assisted in the creation of brand-new digital banks. Our engineers take a holistic approach that addresses technology, process, and structure to make a lasting impact. We work collaboratively with users to create minimum viable products that are truly ready for use. Our test automation engineers are a key part of all our customer and data product engineering teams and work closely with the rest of the team to apply automation to ensure high quality software can be released continuously. As part of that you’ll typically be expected to: Take ownership of developing our test automation practices, and acting as a subject matter expert in the team for tests and test infrastructure Write reusable and extensible automated tests which can evolve with the product and enable continuous delivery to production through CI/CD Use your knowledge to help the product development team build automated processes that will ensure our end users experience a high-quality, usable, secure, and reliable product Communicate what, how, and why of our test strategy for ensuring quality to your team Design and build prototypes and experiments that can validate and improve our system architecture and eliminate gaps in our test approach Work with your team to continually improve their automated test practices Use Jira and Confluence to manage test activity, defects, reporting and documentation. Integrate test tooling with Jira to support effective tracking and traceability. Work collaboratively across client, internal and third-party supplier teams to coordinate testing activity. Review and assure testing delivered by other suppliers, ensuring appropriate quality standards are met. Influence and challenge testing approaches and outcomes where needed before products and services transition into support. Who you are You’ll have experience in automated end-to-end and integration testing in any of JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or C# Experience using Jira and Confluence, including integration of test tools with Jira. Experience working in multi-supplier environments is desirable, with the ability to collaborate with third-party testing teams. Ability to influence and assure the quality of testing delivered by other suppliers ahead of service transition and support