Senior Test Engineer - Java - Rest Assured - Cypress/E2E Testing

Job description

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So, you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

Team & Challenges:

The Central Test Engineering team is responsible for the end-to-end integration and regression testing of systems across Sainsbury’s. This includes front end customer facing channels, order management, warehousing and store support systems - all to ensure great new features and services get delivered to our customers and colleagues flawlessly.

Tech Stack

React

Go-lang

Java

REST Assured

Cypress / Playwrigth

GitHub Actions

About the role:

You’ll be involved in exciting and challenging work building robust, scalable, and high–quality test automation solutions for both functional and regression testing. 

Working with various teams across multiple platforms to build automation against exciting new features and services onto Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat and Tu Clothing digital channels.

Leading the development of automated frameworks within the team to improve the speed and quality of software development by checking for scalability, reliability, consistency, and performance.

Championing clean code and practices that make change easy, including peer reviewing your colleague’s code. 

Extending automation to include service provisioning, test data management, dashboarding and business process validation.

Building, customising, deploying, and managing the test automation frameworks. Leading the maintenance of our automation backlog - analyse, plan and estimate automation requirements.

Building efficient, practical and scalable automated solutions across multiple areas of our systems estate, including front end customer channels, services, middleware systems, and APIs.

Seeking to build automated solutions for reviewing logs and databases as part of the testing process. 

What we’re looking for:

Has a broad knowledge and understanding of IT concepts and architectures

Strong coding background with practical application of multiple languages / technologies.

Ability to decompose complex processes into understandable components.

Ability to lead, mentor and train, more junior colleagues providing direction on automation approaches.

Ability to communicate effectively and liaise on a technical level with Analysts, Product Managers and Engineers to gain required knowledge for the design and creation of appropriate assets and solutions. Being open to learn new tools and platforms

Customer and delivery focus – make a difference!

Above all, you’re an inquisitive and analytical individual with a passion for quality code and software.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
 
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
 
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
 Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).