Locations

This role can be based at either our London or Birmingham office. You will be working to our hybrid model of 3 days together, 2 days wherever.

Why this job matters

In your role as an Automation Tester at BT, you will play a crucial part in testing our design system. This is a key aspect of maintaining the consistency and usability of our digital platforms.

By rigorously testing the design system, you ensure that it remains robust, scalable, and efficient. You validate the functionality, usability, and accessibility of the design components, ensuring they work seamlessly across different devices and browsers. Your meticulous testing helps us detect and fix design inconsistencies or issues early, thereby preserving the visual and functional integrity of our digital platforms.

Your work matters because you help us uphold our commitment to delivering superior digital experiences to our customers.

What you’ll be doing

• Maintain and enhance our existing Cypress automation test framework.
• Transition the squad to a new WebDriver IO framework that uses TypeScript.
• Develop and execute automated tests to ensure product quality.
• Implement a test automation framework in the flutter app using Webdriver IO.
• Collaborate with the development team to ensure consistent project execution.
• Work together with testers across other tribes to ensure product quality and consistency.
• Identify, record, and document thoroughly, and track bugs.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Mentor fellow and junior QAs to help them build towards automation targets and reduce the manual testing needs. 
• Review other QAs work across tribes to ensure high quality standards are maintained. 
• Review requirement documents and ensure that all scenarios (both positive and negative) are covered by clear, achievable, acceptance criteria.
• Coordinating the tasks within sprints and looking at ways to automate manual activities within software delivery process.

Skills and Experience

Must Have Skills:

• Automation expertise using JavaScript, Typescript, Java.
• Experience with Cypress or WebDriver IO frameworks
• Experience automating testing on both Mobile and web based application. 
• Experience of integrating test scripts into Continuous Integration Pipelines.
• Expertise in testing methodologies, test techniques and agile QA practices .
• Working knowledge of JIRA / Confluence
• Good communication skills of test status across engineering team and stakeholders.

Nice to Have Skills:

• ISTQB Foundation certification. 
• Experience with React and design systems.
• Expertise with automated testing tools (such as Applitools,  TestCafe, Karma, Saucelabs / Browserstack, Headspin, Flutter, Appium,).
• Understanding of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) testing approach.
• Background in DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, PAAS, Monitoring / Log aggregation.
• Understanding of complex Headless / Serverless front end testing requirements

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Direct share scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
• 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM Only plans & airtime element off a Flex Pay plan

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
- Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
- Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
- Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
- Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
- Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
- Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.