Senior SDET - Bank of England

Job Description

Join us as SDET Automation Tester with the Bank of England(London, Full-time, Hybrid, Permanent)ABOUT CAPITAAt Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, Education, Transport, Health, Life and Pensions, Insurance, Banking and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by thetalent across our business in combination with technology, insight and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than everand we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.ABOUT BANK OF ENGLANDTECHNOLOGY DEVISIONThe Technology division manages and supports all aspect of technology delivery across the Bank, from maintaining critical systems which underpin the UK economy, to providing big data analytics, implementing comprehensive cyber security programmes and introducinginnovative solutions in support of a digital workplace.Technologys key objective is to support all other areas of the Bank in achieving our collective mission to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability. This is achieved through the delivery of appropriate, highperforming, resilient solutions and information services across the organisation and externally.Technology is structured around a simple operating model: Analyse-Deliver-Service-Secure. This model ensures transparency and effectiveness in our delivery, prioritisation and cost base for IT services and promotes close working relationships with colleaguesacross the Bank so that we can all deliver with pace and agility.THE ROLE OF AN AUTOMATION TESTERThe Automated Tester will be a member of the Infrastructure Delivery team which is accountable for the engineering and delivery of the Banks varied server infrastructure.

• Key responsibilities include, and are not limited to:Teamwork & CommunicationEnsure effective relationships are sustained across the wider Technology team, including internal and external stakeholders, and any domain partners/suppliers
• Leadershipleader of implementing positive change, selling benefits of new ways of working
• Contracts & Commercial CapabilityStrives to deliver the best value for money by continually looking for improvements/efficiencies across both server delivery and capital expenditure
• Technology StrategyWork closely with Architecture to lead the development and implementation and of the Linux server estate within the Bank and, more specifically, to produce and articulately communicate a clear view of the domainsfuture strategy in Linux server delivery
• DeliverySupport both the Delivery team leader and Infrastructure Engineering Manager to ensure that all change, whether programmes and projects, or smaller scale releases, is delivered in a timely and cost-efficient way, whilst ensuringthat they align to both operations and the future domain strategy
• Domain EnablementEnsure compliance with key audit, risk, and security policies and procedures applicable to the Linux server estate

• EXPECTED SKILLS & REQUIREMENTSProficient in Microsoft Office (in particular Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Project life cycle experience (Agile / Waterfall methodologies)
• Experience or knowledge of development automation tools (such as JUnit / JMeter)
• An Awareness of Test Management tools (Jira)
• An Awareness of automated testing tools (such as Selenium/UFT/Axe/Eggplant)
• Personal skills are key for this positionenthusiasm and a flare to problem solve, with a passionate, inquisitive and proactive attitude

• KNOWLEDGE OFTest Data provisioning and Management tools, i.e. Test Data Manager
• Testing complex user interfaces and GUI applications
• Defect management and test management tools
• Risk analysis and Risk Based Testing
• Testing involving both internal and 3rd parties
• A range of testing types (functional, non-functional, regression, integration, UAT, OAT)

• DESIRABLE SKILLS & REQUIREMENTSDevelopment languages, e.g. Visual Basic, Java and C# (Blue Prism / Visio)
• Knowledge of Markets and Banking Systems and applications such as RTGS, T24, Open link, Megara and CREST Gateway

PLEASE NOTE, CANDIDATES MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR SECURITY CLEARANCE