Automation Tester

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Automation Tester

Location: London

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

What You’ll Be Doing 

Behind great solutions there are great people: our employees. We pride ourselves on being able to solve some of our customers’ most complex problems. Our people are what differentiates us, they are ingenious, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. In general, we work in teams. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with balanced, high quality solutions.

As a key member of our community, you’ll be working with one of our National Security & Government customers to build a system that supports their core mission capabilities. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with end-users to flexibly and efficiently design, develop, deploy and maintain applications and services.

Skills & Experience

• Confident in Cypress for front end, JMetre for backend and consideration to both Cypress and React automated component testing.  
• Build the respective automation framework(s), integrated into the CICD pipeline.
• Design Automation test Approaches/strategies, test design, adapt and implement them into automated tests with minimal coverage loss.
• Understand and follow standards for programming tools, techniques and advising on their application to other members of the team. 
• Code, configure, implement, maintain frameworks, automated scripts, test stubs, drivers, test harnesses and data generation in accordance to the highest standards.
• Demonstrate problem solving abilities using test scripts, diagnostic tools, technical manuals and system documentation to identify, debug, diagnose, report and fix errors.
• Define quality metrics, implement, review measures to quantify and maximize automated test effectiveness and efficiency (maximum test coverage for the minimum number of tests for the fastest test time).
• Produce reports on system quality and metrics on test cases and defects on AWS Jira/Management tools.
• Be recognized as an expert of key technologies e.g. automation, scripting, develops within the team.
• Demonstrate problem solving abilities for complex problems and devise/design strategies to formulate solutions.
• Identify automation opportunities and automate all aspects of build, release, testing, continuous integration and deployment.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able to perform within the organisation.

All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.