We are looking for a Automation Test Lead to join the team.

Location: London Bridge 40%, Remote 60%
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum
Contract type: Full time, permanent
This role does not offer sponsorship so candidates must have the right to work in the UK

As one of the largest and top performing housing associations in England, Hyde Housing Association owns or manages 50,000 homes in London, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, the East of England and East Midlands. Our vision and purpose is clear. We are determined to build more homes and provide simple, easy to use landlord services for all our customers.

We are proud of our rich history but more importantly we are excited and inspired about what the future holds. Our recently published strategy detailed how we want to create a truly customer-driven organisation and to provide modern, energy efficient, and safe homes that meet peoples' needs in the long term. Our strategy is about recognising the role we can play in improving people's life chances, and creating social value for individuals, communities and society. To realise our ambitions, we are undertaking an ambitious and truly cutting edge technology change programme, implementing Salesforce, AWS, Kafka Integration solution and full data lake solution.

We are looking to recruit innovative, talented and ambitious individuals to join us on our journey. You will need to be ambitious motivated, excited by new technology and the impact that it can have on an organisation.

The Automation Test Lead is responsible for the creation and delivery of automated testing for the main supported applications for both project and BAU work streams. You will be collaborating with other stakeholders from technology and the wider business, to ensure that test automation requirements are fulfilled, automation tools/technologies and performing automated testing throughout the systems development lifecycle.

Duties of a Automation Test Lead:

Management of the Automation Test team.
Define processes and best practices as related to Test Automation.
Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members, colleagues in the business.
Work closely with the test and training manager to define a unified Automation framework.
Lead the definition of Load Test framework within the Automation Framework.
Work with the test manager to define, select and implement Automation and Load Test Tools within the defined frameworks.
Work with core application owners to define suitable areas for an automated framework of test scripts.
Develop and maintain automated functional regression tests in line with defined scripting standards, procedures and best practices.
Ensuring defects are raised as per the defect management process.
Liaise with suppliers to validate that supplier Automation and Load test processes exist and are followed.
Raising any test automation compliance issues to the test manager.
Helping maintain and evolve testing activities in the software development and change processes alongside the test manager.
Assist with day to day manual test activities in periods of high delivery.

Experience required:

Experience of Automation Test Tools - preferably Katalon and Provar
Experience of using QTest as Test Repository and Defect Management tool
Experience of working on a large scale digital transformation with Salesforce an advantage

We offer an award-winning flexible benefits package, a fantastic pension scheme and the opportunity to work for an organisation whose social purpose is to help provide people with a home.

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