You understand how to balance automation investment with delivery needs and can confidently influence teams on where automation will have the greatest impact. Equally comfortable discussing framework design with developers or quality strategy with stakeholders, you bring a complex customer journeys, pragmatic engineering mindset and a passion for continuous improvement.

You will have strong commercial experience designing and building automated testing solutions using Playwright. You'll have experience creating and maintaining enterprise-scale automation frameworks, automating and helping teams adopt automation-first delivery practices.

You should also have experience testing APIs and services using tools such as ReadyAPI and Postman, alongside a strong understanding of RESTful architectures, integration testing and automated validation approaches. Experience working with BDD frameworks and implementing automated acceptance testing within Agile teams will be highly beneficial.

We're particularly interested in candidates who have experience across the broader engineering toolchain, including Visual Studio Code, Git, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices. Strong SQL skills are also important, including the ability to interrogate, validate and manipulate data to support test execution and investigation activities.

Experience with modern automation tooling is needed, as is experience within cloud-hosted and Azure-based environments.

Most importantly, you'll be passionate about quality, enjoys collaborating with others, and wants to help shape how test automation and quality engineering continue to evolve within Royal London.

Essential

• Playwright (C#, Typescript, .NET).
• API Automation.
• ReadyAPI.
• Postman.
• SQL / SQL Server / T-SQL.
• BDD frameworks (Cucumber or equivalent).
• Visual Studio Code.
• Azure DevOps.
• Git.
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Agile delivery practices.
• Test Automation Framework Design.

Desirable

• Accessibility, Performance (JMeter) and Security Testing, within Azure-hosted solutions.
• Financial Services experience.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role will be measured by your ability to increase automation coverage across critical customer journeys, improve release confidence through robust Playwright automation, reduce manual regression effort, and help delivery teams adopt quality-first engineering practices.

You'll be recognised as someone who drives improvements in testing standards, tooling and automation maturity, whilst helping develop and mentor colleagues across the wider engineering community. Through your work, teams will be able to deliver software more quickly, more safely and with greater confidence.

Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and your unique experiences and perspectives could be a great addition to our team.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging

We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.