Automation Test Engineer

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a passionate and emotionally intelligent automation test engineer to be part of a squad driving code quality, security, efficiency and best practice. As a Automation Test Engineer you’ll be working in a squad, helping to foster a culture of trust and collaboration, in a test driven development environment which values regular delivery of value through an efficient CI/CD pipeline. You’ll work with a squad lead and other squad members to help drive and deliver a Cloud-first, SaaS-based strategy.

As we embark on a very exciting technical transformation with a focus on cloud migration and microservice architectures, it is a great time for you to shape our practice where each individual can create an immediate impact.

THE CHALLENGE

You should have a passion for automated testing, code quality, experience of tooling centric to software testing and an understanding of software non-functional requirements: quality, reliability and security. You’ll understand the benefits and impact of test coverage to a well-functioning release pipeline. You will also have a natural desire to work using best practice and contribute to your peer development community and a passion for reproducible results. You’ll enjoy collaboratively setting the vision and strategy and setting the path to creating change. You’ll have an appreciation of psychological safety and what it means for teams which trust each other, use failure as an opportunity to learn and understands what drives you to get the best overall result as part of a happy team.

There are several key challenge areas:

• Coding evangelism of best practice
• Plan, build, test, and improve the software delivery lifecycle for a broad array of products and services using automated tests
• Contribute to constant improvement in testing and development
• Craft reusable frameworks that simplify platform, delivery and observability

YOUR PROFILE

• Strong knowledge of modern automation testing techniques with practical experience in Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework
• Background in Java
• Strong understanding of coding best practice
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Excellence with version control systems and application lifecycle management (Git / GitHub).
• Excellent communicator at all levels.
• Some experience with Python, scripting skills (ability to write Bash script, Python / Ruby / Powershell / other) beneficial.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Team player with great communication skills
• Goal and results orientated
• Strong interpersonal skills and maintains excellent internal relationships
• Passionate about Climate Change
• Critical thinker – strategic and analytical
• Passionate and highly energetic personality – motivates others

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Professional development and opportunity to shape a fast-growing (100% YoY growth) private equity-backed company with a culture that values psychological safety at work, passionate and colleagues and highly ambitious colleagues.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus public holiday entitlement. Additional entitlement for continuous service of 24 months, to a maximum of 30 days
• Work for a company that really lives and breathes its values
• Excellent ongoing professional development support
• Employee pension scheme and healthcare
• Maternity package
• 2 days per year to volunteer for charity
• Discretionary end-of-year bonus
• Flexible working and opportunity for home working
• Monthly company socials, childcare vouchers, Bike2Work scheme, payroll giving

EVORA GLOBAL BACKGROUND

EVORA is a leading provider of consulting, managed services and software solutions for Real Assets. The business has a pedigree delivering deep industry expertise across the complex spectrum of regulatory and reporting requirements, coupled with robust data platform offering high integrity and insight.

EVORA is the largest contributor of reporting into GRESB standard and offers specialist knowledge around Net Zero Carbon, Green Finance, TCFD and SFDR. Importantly for its clients, the company can frame these regulatory and stakeholder obligations into financial outcomes.

With a focus on sophisticated asset owners and fund managers that care about Climate Change and Carbon Emissions, EVORA is orienting its business model to recurring services, data and software. The business has a blue-chip client base in Europe with demand for its services across Europe and US. The Company’s software assets were developed initially to support managed services but are now maturing to full standalone capabilities and the ability to help clients formulate a strategy, track progress and optimize their Real Asset portfolios across Real Estate, Infrastructure and Green Finance.

The company has recently transitioned from being founder bootstrapped, to enjoying the financial and operational support offered by Bridges Fund Management, Farview Equity Partners and MSCI. The new investors believe there are significant opportunities to enhance GTM, service delivery and application development depth, enabling scale-up acceleration.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £65,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Birmingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person