Test Engineer - NEL

This role is within Cloud, Digital and Integration Function, specifically in the digital domain.

You will be joining our Nationwide Experience Language (NEL) team. This is an in-house design system and delivers reusable components and guidance for digital product teams.

We are looking for an Automation Test Engineer to join our NEL team with JavaScript-based framework experience and take ownership of the test process and future test strategy roadmap.

While working with the design system team, you will also have the opportunity to work on a new automation framework for Internet Bank. The successful applicant will be responsible for defining and driving the test strategy, ensuring we move forward with industry best practices.

At Nationwide, we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK-wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job, you'll be located at our nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. This is anticipated to be quarterly in Swindon or London. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

What you'll be doing

You will be responsible for the creation and delivery of test outcomes using testing solutions aligned to proven patterns. Working in our development team, you will apply best practices and automation in the testing of reusable components, design system website, and React application.

Your goal is to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of testing processes which align with our Technology Standards. Our test practice community will support you with guidance and help from your peers.

You'll also provide technical test leadership within the team, managing and mentoring individuals, driving the team to deliver on a regular basis.

You will ensure the adoption of good practice and automation in the testing of both strategic IT initiatives and smaller deliveries enabling decisions to be made with confidence and at pace.

You may be required to work on-call from time to time.
About you

We are looking for a skilled Test Engineer with strong JavaScript skills who will work within a community of multi-skilled teams to create and execute testing solutions including automation frameworks. We need someone with expertise including:

• Implement automation-first approaches using industry best practices, targeting appropriate strategies for robust and repeatable automation
• Implement suitable tooling and metrics to create an environment for continuous testing and continuous learning
• Provide technical input at parts of the delivery lifecycle, including consultancy to stakeholders
• Production of test evidence and associated artifacts to support quality
• Coding ability to support the creation and maintenance of automation frameworks
• Tools such as Cucumber, WebDriverIO, Playwright, BrowserStack, Selenium
• Understanding of DevOps principles, practices, and tools.
• Experience of performing Accessibility testing using accessibility testing tools.
• Have the rigor, ability, and discipline to self-learn what is required for continual professional development and stay abreast of changes in the industry
• Have experience of working in a complex technical environment, where there is a requirement to consider the impact of own area on others from a technological perspective.

Our Customer First behaviors are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviors that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritizing what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

• A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro-rata

Nationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.

As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage, or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organization that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

If this role is for you, please click the 'Apply Now' button. You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.