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

Hybrid Working

Work Where it Works.  Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works.  This enables you to complete your daily tasks where you'll be the most effective.  It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.  We would love to talk to you about this.