Testing Automation Lead

The role of the Testing Automation Lead is to ensure guidance for developing, testing and maintaining software, working across teams, contributing to delivery of high-quality software with a focus on product and project success, considering also long term product strategy and objectives. The role is responsible for decisions on testing and automation strategy, collaborating with teams and other stakeholders during the process.

As a Testing Automation Lead you have a key role in creating revolutionary, impactful software and services that our customers love. Our Automation Engineers are a key component in our ability to provide instruments and software that enable our customers to undertake drug testing, neonatal screening, conducting food safety tests and many more applications. Our instruments have been critical in helping our customers develop Covid tests and vaccines.

What can we offer?

Waters is a company providing good employee benefits, including a healthcare package and excellent training & development support - you can dedicate 10% of your working week to training and development. 

We have a flexible approach to work with opportunities for some remote working, and maintain a friendly, productive working environment.

Remote working options are available. 

As a Testing and Automation Lead, you will:

• Design, write, test, maintain, review, and improve code: You should be proficient working on complex tasks. . medium to large scale, legacy code, variety of test-automation approaches and test execution environments, varying development models and technologies, complex build configuration tasks. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gain knowledge about product requirements. Be proficient working with user stories, product backlog refinement and the writing of acceptance tests, using various techniques. Ensure you understand the requirements of work in the current release, including the “why”. As leader, be proactive to fill in gaps and resolve confusion from the teams in development requirements.
• Collaborate with development and project teams and prioritize non-functional requirements related to testing and automation. and ensure progress on these activities.
• You should be proactive in resolving ambiguity and questioning why with respect to the goals related to testing and automation across teams. You should have the experience to decide what technical/testing approach to use for certain tasks and guide others (individuals or teams) when necessary to make progress.
• Contribute ideas to the continuous improvement of the product, practices and people and be proactive in adopting and helping with project-level changes. You should take a lead with making changes happen in areas of interest or specialization.
• Use opportunities to share knowledge and help others, both within your team and beyond. Encourage team learning. Help and guide individuals and teams, ensure usage of technical standards, defining and updating guidelines, sharing knowledge and providing feedback. You should have the experience and ability to teach some technical concepts.

What experience will make you a successful Automation Lead?

• You have a University degree (preferably in a science related subject or in engineering).
• You have Software Programming (Object Oriented) and Automated Testing experience and a consistent experience in applying technical standards.
• Experience with Automated Tests related tools - knowledge on some of SpecFlow, Bamboo, Jenkins, Docker, AWS are an advantage.
• Experience on API testing, performance and load testing is desired.
• You are using efficiently your communication, teamwork, analysis and decision making skills and you are familiar with Agile methodologies.
• You are fluent in English - speaking, reading, writing - Advanced Level.
• You care about software; you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions and experiences. You have an eye for software quality and can talk eloquently on a range of topics due to your experiences and also from reading and experimentation.
• For you it’s more than a job. Among other things we’re strong advocates of creating quality software, and using the latest testing methodologies to ensure we meet the expectations of our customers.