Test Automation Engineer

Job Title: QET - Test Automation Engineer - Sheffield

About the Job you are considering:

Lead end-to-end testing for UK payments transformation initiatives within banking and financial services, ensuring solutions are delivered safely, compliantly, and to high-quality standards. Own and drive the overall test strategy, planning, and execution across functional, integration, UAT, and non-functional testing phases. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless delivery while meeting regulatory expectations and operational resilience requirements across payments systems.

Hybrid working:
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Job Role:

• Define and own test strategy, test plan, and overall test approach for payments programs
• Lead test estimation, resource planning, scheduling, and progress reporting
• Manage full test lifecycle including requirements analysis, test design, execution, defect management, and closure
• Coordinate end-to-end integration testing across applications, APIs, middleware, and third-party systems
• Drive testing across UK payment schemes such as Faster Payments, CHAPS, Bacs, and SWIFT
• Ensure robust test data management, including masking/anonymisation and environment readiness
• Lead defect management including severity assessment, triage, root cause analysis, and closure governance
• Support and govern User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including entry/exit criteria, execution oversight, and sign-off
• Plan and oversee non-functional testing such as performance, resilience, and security testing
• Implement automation strategy, shift-left practices, and CI/CD quality gates
• Ensure adherence to audit controls, compliance standards, and regulatory expectations
• Provide clear status reporting and updates to senior stakeholders and governance forums

Job Skills:

Proven experience as a Test Lead/Test Manager in banking or financial services
• Strong knowledge of UK payments systems: Faster Payments (FPS), CHAPS, Bacs, SWIFT
• Understanding of payment lifecycle including failures, cutoffs, returns, rejects, duplicates, and reconciliation
• Expertise in end-to-end integration testing across distributed systems and APIs
• Strong test management skills including planning, estimation, and governance
• Advanced defect management and triage leadership skills
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, ALM, Zephyr, and reporting dashboards
• Knowledge of test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, and API testing tools (Postman, Rest Assured)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and quality engineering practices
• Experience with SQL and data validation, including XML/JSON
• Understanding of ISO 20022 messaging (preferred)
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
• Desirable Skills
• Experience with ISO 20022 migration programs
• Knowledge of SWIFT messaging standards
• Certifications such as ISTQB (Foundation/Advanced), Agile/Scrum/Kanban, or quality engineering certifications

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
Make it real | www.capgemini.com.