Senior Automation Engineer
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Senior Automation Engineer leading automation strategy across multiple retail technology programs at Spike. Engaging with clients, mentoring teams, and ensuring quality in automation delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of automation strategy and delivery across complex client engagements
- Act as a senior automation authority within delivery teams and with client stakeholders
- Balance technical quality, delivery outcomes, and pragmatism across multiple projects
- Lead and develop Spike consultants, setting standards for automation quality and engineering excellence
- Contribute to the evolution of Spike’s automation frameworks, tools, and ways of working
- Act as the senior escalation point for automation-related risks, issues, and technical decisions
- Act as a trusted automation advisor to client stakeholders, supporting informed technical decision-making
- Shape automation approaches within proposals, estimates, and delivery models
- Support pre-sales and solution design activities where automation is a core component
- Identify opportunities to improve automation effectiveness and value for clients
- Help position Spike as a credible, high-quality automation and quality engineering partner
- Lead, mentor, and coach Spike consultants on client engagements
- Support the development of less experienced automation engineers and test leads
- Promote high engineering standards, collaboration, and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to internal communities of practice, frameworks, and accelerators
- Demonstrate Spike values through behaviour, decision-making, and client interactions
Requirements:
- Proven experience defining and delivering test automation strategies across multiple projects
- Strong hands-on experience with web and API automation tools and engineering approaches
- Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery models
- Development experience using one or more languages such as Java, C#, Python, or JavaScript
- Experience working in Agile environments, collaborating closely with development teams
- BDD experience using Cucumber, SpecFlow, and/or Gherkin
- Ability to operate autonomously with high levels of accountability
- Retail or eCommerce experience is desirable, particularly within complex, multi-system environments.
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave + public holidays
- Day off for your birthday
- L&D allowance and training days
- Pension with auto-enrolment after one month
- Remote-first working with flexibility and paid travel when required
- Personal relationships with an open-door leadership team
- Challenging consultancy-led work across major retail brands
- A business owned by practising consultants, with shared purpose and principles
- Pick-and-mix benefits allowance
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