Test Automation Engineer (API)

About the job you're considering

Are you passionate about automation and eager to work on high-impact systems in a collaborative Agile environment? We are looking for a skilled Test Automation Engineer to join our team, focusing on API automation within existing frameworks. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a well-established project while enhancing your skills with cutting-edge tools and methodologies.

Your role

• Develop and maintain API automation scripts using tools like Rest Assured, Karate, and Cucumber
• Work primarily in Java (Python and C# also welcome)
• Enhance and extend existing automation frameworks-no need to build from scratch
• Collaborate within Scrum teams alongside developers, QA leads, and product owners
• Participate in test scenario creation, execution, and defect reporting
• Use tools like JIRA for test management and reporting

Your skills and experience

• Experience in test automation
• Strong programming skills (Java preferred; Python/C# also considered)
• Solid understanding of API testing and automation frameworks
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience working with test management tools (e.g., JIRA)
• Ability to enhance and adapt existing frameworks

Your security clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.
There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' 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 ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

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 a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.