Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
Position: Automation Engineer Reporting to: Lead SDET Location: Lisbon Type: Permanent Band: 1
Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
The London Market tech team is a modern, agile technology department seeking to work as closely as possible with our colleagues across the company to deliver true business value in an agile fashion. We are a group of engineers (software, data, quality), data scientists, and agile practitioners. We organise ourselves into chapters according to these professional disciplines. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.
Hiscox London Market is actively seeking a dynamic Automation Engineer to support our London Market Engineering team and get involved in shaping the way we make sure quality across all of our technology platforms.
🎯 The Role In this role, you will be responsible for making sure the quality of our web applications and APIs. You will also support our Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) in maintaining and executing automation tests. This will also involve working closely with the software engineers and product owners in understanding, defining, and testing the application. You will make sure our test suites give appropriate coverage to reduce the chance of regression defects. To achieve this, you will have a good understanding of key components of our underlying technologies.
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💻 Our technology We operate in a diverse technical environment and are looking for flexible Automation Engineer who can adapt to and use many different tools. We would not expect any Automation Engineer to be familiar with the entire tech stack. Instead, we seek people with a good understanding of quality engineering, software development practices and have the ability to apply this knowledge in learning new tools. Moreover we will be working with the Automation Engineer in their progression towards becoming a SDET.
Our technology platforms include web applications developed in C# interacting with backend services (APIs) and backed by Microsoft SQL Server databases. We operate data platforms using Snowflake cloud data warehouse orchestrated with Python code and Prefect for ELT. We have a hybrid on-premises / Azure cloud infrastructure and are adopting a cloud first / provider agnostic approach.
We take a DevOps approach and strive for continuous integration / continuous deployment. We use Azure Pipelines to deploy our code. We deploy infrastructure the same way using Terraform and Docker.
🤝 Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
We have also learned over the past couple of years that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office and have adopted hybrid ways of working to encourage a healthy work life balance. We anticipate the successful candidate for this role will be in the office up to 2 days per fortnight.
🎁 Why work here? If you want to help build a brilliant future; work with amazing people; be part of a unique company culture; and, of course, enjoy great employee benefits that take care of your mental and physical wellbeing, come and join us.
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