Job Description – Automation Engineer - Lisbon
About Hiscox:
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the work, and we're committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We embrace hybrid-working practices, balancing the ability to work remotely with the culture and energy we experience when we are face-to-face in our offices. Our focus on collaboration and cross-functional working is supported with virtual tools that minimise physical travel, hot-desking neighbourhoods that create a physical sense of community and Team Charters that our teams co-create to set out how they'll work together. This modern way of working has contributed to impressive employee engagement scores across Hiscox and means we're delivering even better solutions for our Hiscox Colleagues.
As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things. We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions. Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer:
HISCOX is an international insurer specialized in the market of luxury goods & property, and high-end professional insurance. As experts in risk, we give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions. With offices in 9 European countries, we have a very international staff and encourage a culture that fosters inclusion and collaboration, offering exciting opportunities for personal and professional growth. In our Lisbon office we have the privilege of employing approximately 500 exceptional professionals representing 29 diverse nationalities. Despite our central location within the city, we recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of our commitment to our employees' well-being, we provide a 35-hour workweek along with the option for a hybrid working schedule.
The Team:
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. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.
The Role:
Within this role you will establish and maintain automated testing frameworks to ensure the quality of our web applications, APIs and data platforms. This will involve working closely with the software engineers and product owners in understanding, defining and testing of the application. 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Ensuring hands-on development of both testing frameworks and specific tests for APIs, data platforms and web applications.
Creating and working within a specialist quality engineering practice for the Hiscox London Market with a right tool for the job mentality; researching, evaluating and adopting new technologies.
Focusing on speed of delivery and quality, with suitable pragmatism – ensuring your solutions are always "appropriate" and not overly complex or over-engineered.
Enabling progression of projects from PoC to post-production stage.
Communicating and presenting ideas to colleagues in all parts of the wider business.
Working with offshore partner quality engineers – in India and Poland and onsite staff in London and York Hiscox offices.
Person Specification: Our must haves:
Sound understanding of testing methodologies including behaviour-driven testing, unit testing and data-driven testing.
Ability to take an automation-first approach to quality engineering.
Experience with C# testing framework.
Experience with web application testing using tools such as Playwright.
Experience with the API testing using RestSharp.
Behaviour-driven testing of executable specifications e.g. using Gherkin.
Sufficient SQL expertise to develop effective backend database tests.
Good understanding of DevOps principals and experience with CICD pipelines.
Experience in working with version control tools like git.
Experience with both cloud and on-premises solutions.
Experience of UI testing tools.
Our nice to haves:
Experience building tests into Azure DevOps pipelines.
Exposure to Docker / Familiarity of containerization would be advantageous.
Particular understanding of the Azure cloud.
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