Newcastle Building Society
Junior Automated Test Engineer
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Junior Automated Test Engineer
Salary Band LC2Tec £33,709 - £43,783
Job Description
About the Role
As a Junior Automation Test Engineer, you’ll play an important role in ensuring the quality, reliability and performance of the systems and products developed across Newcastle Building Society Group. Working within an Agile Scrum team, you’ll design, build, test and deploy automated testing solutions that help us deliver high-quality technology efficiently and effectively.
You'll focus on increasing test automation coverage wherever possible, creating robust and maintainable automated test suites that support rapid and reliable software delivery. You’ll be involved throughout the full development lifecycle, collaborating closely with Product Owners, developers and fellow testers from the earliest stages of design through to deployment.
As a key member of the squad, you’ll contribute to Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and sprint reviews, helping to shape solutions and ensure quality is considered from the outset.
The role offers the opportunity to work across a wide range of testing activities, including functional, regression, acceptance, performance, load and user interface testing within a TDD/BDD environment. You’ll help define and document acceptance criteria, develop comprehensive test cases, accurately estimate work using story points and provide clear feedback on testing outcomes to support continuous improvement.
About You
We're looking for someone with a passion for quality, technology and continuous improvement who is keen to develop their career in automation testing. You should be educated to degree level in a relevant subject, or be able to demonstrate equivalent practical experience, and have a solid understanding of automation testing principles and tools, such as Playwright. Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, would be advantageous.
You’ll be an organised and proactive individual with excellent time management skills and the ability to balance priorities in a fast-paced environment. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential, enabling you to work effectively with colleagues across a range of disciplines and present information in a clear, structured and balanced way.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
You’ll also have the confidence to challenge constructively, influence positive outcomes and contribute to successful project delivery. A keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality solutions are key to success in this role.
Experience of both automated and manual testing approaches would be beneficial, alongside hands-on exposure to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). You'll ideally have experience working within a live Agile, multidisciplinary delivery environment, supporting the development and testing of web-based transactional platforms.
Experience gained within a commercial technology environment, whether as part of an external service provider or an in-house delivery function, would be valuable. Familiarity with Jira, or similar work management and collaboration tools, will also help you thrive in the role.
About Us
The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.
As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.
What do you get in return?
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:
-
Financial
- Corporate bonus scheme (on target 5%, up to a maximum 10%)
- Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
- Annual performance related pay reviews
- Colleague mortgage scheme
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
- Access to our financial advisers
- Access to a range of high street and online discounts
-
Work/Life Balance
- A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
- 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (rises to 30 with length of service)
- The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
- Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
- Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood
-
Health and Wellbeing
- Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
- Access to an employee assistance programme
- Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s
- Two paid volunteering days’ each year
- Cycle to work scheme
Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at dave.cowell@newcastle.co.uk
Company: Newcastle Strategic Solutions Limited
People are the focus of absolutely everything we do. We believe in people, we care deeply about their hopes, their dreams and their wellbeing. And that applies equally to our customers, our communities and our colleagues – which means you, if you choose to work here.
It’s important to us that you know if you join us we will welcome you, respect you, encourage you and help you to achieve your goals.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills