Test Automation Engineer

Admiral Group Plc; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job description

Admiral Money are recruiting a Test Automation Engineer to join our growing delivery team.

About us

Admiral Money is the dynamic lending arm of Admiral Group, offering personal loans, motor finance, and homeowner loans since 2017. We’re building something special for our customers and are looking for curious, driven individuals ready to learn, take on challenges, and make an impact.

We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work for over 25 years, with recognition for Women and Wellbeing. Our inclusive culture empowers everyone to Be You.

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About the Role

We are looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join one of our delivery teams and contribute to the quality of our applications through effective automated and exploratory testing.

In this role, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and executing automated tests within a product or team area. You will work independently on automation tasks while collaborating closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to ensure testing is well integrated into the delivery process.

This role suits someone experienced in test automation within a commercial environment and comfortable taking ownership of their work without the expectation of defining strategy or leading others.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated UI test suites using Cypress and Selenium
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Python‑based automation frameworks
• Create and execute API automation tests to validate backend services and integrations
• Carry out manual and exploratory testing to support effective coverage and investigate complex scenarios
• Work closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to understand requirements and agree appropriate test approaches
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies, including refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Integrate and maintain automated tests within existing CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor test execution, investigate failures, and contribute to improving test reliability and maintainability
• Support test data management and test environment configuration where required
• Ensure test artefacts and documentation are accurate, clear, and kept up to date
• Continuously improve test coverage and automation effectiveness within the team

Essential Skills & Experience

• Commercial experience working as a Test Automation Engineer within an Agile delivery team
• Strong hands‑on experience with Cypress and/or Selenium
• Experience using Python to support automated testing and frameworks
• Solid experience with API testing and automation
• Ability to analyse functional and technical requirements to determine appropriate test coverage
• Experience maintaining and extending existing automation suites
• Confidence working independently on automation tasks with minimal supervision
• Experience troubleshooting automated tests, particularly within CI/CD pipelines
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain testing outcomes clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• A pragmatic, quality‑focused mindset with a good understanding of when automation adds value

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in financial services, fintech, or other regulated environments
• Familiarity with tools such as Postman, Xray, Jira, Confluence, AWS, and BrowserStack
• Experience with BDD approaches (e.g., Gherkin)
• Cross‑browser and cross‑device testing experience
• Experience working with third‑party or offshore development teams
• Exposure to test automation in complex or legacy systems

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people‑first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people‑first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work‑life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.