Your Role

You will be accountable and responsible for;

• Shaping the direction of the Automation testing team.
• Building and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Develop ways of working and initiatives that are suitable for both Agile and Waterfall projects.
• Analysing tools and implementing the latest technologies into the business.
• Educating and Training the QA team including ASDA and partner colleagues.
• Liaising with key stakeholders. The successful candidate will have;
• Experience managing Automation Testing teams.
• Strong background in Automation testing.
• Retail experience.
• Strong leadership/management skills.
• Create Innovative Automation approaches and solutions small and large scale projects.
• Identify and Implement Automation opportunities and candidates across all QA disciplines, such as; Functional Testing, Non-Functional Testing, Environment provisioning and Test Data creation.
• Work with the Asda development teams to grow and mature the CI/CD ways of working to enable ADM to embrace DevOps/Agile Ways of Working.
• Resource planning.
• Proactively lead the day-to-day operations of Automation activities.
• Presenting and producing metrics/reports for senior management (director level and above).

About You

• Knowledge and experience of open source technologies, in particular Selenium + Java with a BDD framework (Cucumber/Gherkin).
• Experience in implementing and managing automation testing across several platforms; web, mobile, web services & ETL testing.
• Experience working with QA service providers, both onshore and offshore.
• Ability to implement the use of Robotics and other hardware within test automation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to lead a small team of testers.
• (Desirable) Experience with licensed Automation tools such as EggPlant & SAP Tosca