The Quality Automation Specialist is responsible for undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models including both Waterfall and Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery environment (CICD), to ensure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the Idea to Value life cycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market to ensure the detection of any defect is identified at the earliest possible moment and supports Teams to develop quality solutions reliably and predictably and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value.
Automated Testing relates to all stages of the Idea to Value life cycle including smoke/sanity, static testing, systems testing, systems integration, regression, progression , user acceptance testing, release testing, enabling a repeatable set of tests to be conducted quickly, ensuring consistency of quality through the delivery lifecycle and improving overall quality over time. This role works at all levels to enable cross skilling of colleagues with the skills and benefits of end-to-end automation testing ensuring quality is embedded in all activities and aspects of delivery and not a phase at the end.