Investec is a distinctive Specialist Bank serving clients principally in the UK and South Africa. Our culture gives us our edge: we work hard to find colleagues who'll think out of the ordinary and we put them in environments where they'll flourish. We combine a flat structure with a focus on internal mobility. If you can bring an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to learn and collaborate to your work, this could be the boost your career deserves.

Description of role and key responsibilities    
Overall Objective:
Investec is looking for an experienced test automation engineer to join our newly formed High Net worth and Corporate Lending technology team within Transaction, Lending and Cash.

You will have the opportunity to work with a small, highly talented team to design automation tests within the Retail and Corporate Lending space.  
Test automation engineer's duties include:
•    Test planning and execution 
•    Designing and developing test automation scripts
•    Manual and automation testing
•    API testing (REST & SOAP)
•    Experience with Test-Driven Development
•    Analysis and Reporting
•    Defining, maintaining, and owning team testing standards
•    Using test automation guidelines
•    Collaborating with business analysts, and software developers to develop solutions
•    Keeping updated with the latest industry developments

Core skills and knowledge    
Technical:
•    Experience of web development, with Angular design and development with JavaScript.
•    Experience with AZURE, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), .Net, .Net Core, Angular, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, LINQ, SQL and/or Cosmos DB.
•    Experience with data-handling within Azure.
•    Working with end user, business analysts and developers
•    Participating in QA activities: Integration-, Regression-, Performance-testing
•    Post-release support
•    Following and contributing to Test Guild and test automation best practice and standards 

Your experience
•    Experience working as a automation test engineer
•    Knowledge of Selenium Test Environment and the ability to configure it
•    Experience in test tools e.g. Playwright, Cypress Selenium.
•    Good understanding of programming languages like Java, SQL, HTML, C#, Python, Perl, CSS, or XML
•    Highly accurate and detail-oriented
•    Familiarity with Agile & DevOps methodologies
•    Excellent reporting, time management, analytical & communication skills
•    Knowledge of test management tools
•    Communication and interaction with users, Business analysts and Developers

Advantages experience, skill and capabilities
•    AZ900 – Azure Fundamentals
•    MS D365 framework
•    Azure DevOps Pipelines experience
•    Financial Services knowledge & experience
•    Cloud architecture best practices
•    Change management

Qualification
•    Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or an IT related filed.
•    Previous experience as a test automation engineer
•    Experience in manual testing

Any other attributes that would be helpful, but not essential for the role    
•    Ownership
•    Self-motivated
•    Delivery focused
•    Attention to detail
•    Collaborative
•    Strive to improve working environment and processes

Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. This creates an environment in which everyone is free to be themselves which helps to drive innovation, creativity and ultimately business performance. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation.

We want our people to feel empowered to be themselves in an environment that supports them, enabling them to perform in “out of the ordinary” ways. Our culture places belonging and inclusion at its centre and our work environment is integral to this. If you require any adjustments to support you through the recruitment process, as well as supportive and flexible working arrangements to help you succeed with us, please let our recruitment team know.

Research shows that some candidates can be reluctant to apply to a role unless they meet all the criteria. We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit here and welcome you to do the same – if the role excites you, please don't let our person specification hold you back. Get in touch!