What You'll Do
- Lead the implementation and evolution of strategic automation initiatives across Digital Squads
- Embed and champion a whole team approach to quality, with a strong focus on the Test Pyramid
- Coach, mentor, and inspire others - helping them develop skills and adopt better practices
- Advocate for continuous improvement across processes, tooling, and team behaviors
- Influence and evangelise CDL’s Testing Vision across the business
- Drive best practice across functional, nonfunctional, performance, and security testing
- Encourage innovation, challenge the status quo, and set high standards in everything we do
- Represent CDL externally in the Testing community, sharing insights and learning from industry developments
What You'll Bring
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An expert understanding of modern testing principles and how they apply across delivery teams
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Ability to define and apply effective test strategies for complex systems, balancing automation, exploratory testing, and risk‑based approaches.
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Experience evangelising a left‑shifted approach to quality, working with teams to embed testing and quality practices early in the development lifecycle.
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Comfortable investigating issues across environments, using logs, metrics, and data to understand failures and support root‑cause analysis.
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Actively contributes to improving testing practices, standards, and tooling through continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
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Strong working knowledge of TDD and BDD
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A collaborative approach, working hand in hand with Product and Engineering to drive shared outcomes
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Breadth of testing techniques with deep specialism in automation
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Hands-on experience with modern automated testing tools, such asKarateandCypress, applying them effectively across the test pyramid.
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Familiarity with a range of testing and delivery tools used across the SDLC, including tools for exploratory testing, API documentation, performance testing, and work tracking (e.g.Postman/Bruno,Swagger UI,Gatling,JIRA).
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Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, contributing to and maintaining automated quality checks within modern delivery workflows, such asGitLab.
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Comfortable working withinAWShosted systems, using cloud services to support effective testing, investigation, and quality assurance across distributed applications.
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A track record of driving improvements from idea to completion
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Experience adopting or integrating AI within the delivery lifecycle (AIDLC), using AI enabled tooling or practices to accelerate testing, improve coverage, enhance quality insights, or optimise team workflows
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Curiosity and openness to emerging AI driven testing approaches and their practical application in real-world delivery
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Knowledge of accessibility standards and practices (e.g., WCAG), with the ability to embed accessibility considerations into testing strategies and coach teams on inclusive quality approaches.
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Hands-on experience designing and executing effective test approaches across both mobile and desktop platforms, ensuring consistent quality, usability, and reliability across devices
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Experience with AI powered testing tools
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Comfortable interrogating relational databases (e.g. Postgres) using SQL to support testing, debugging, and root‑cause analysis, using tools such as DBeaver or similar.
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Performance and security testing experience
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Background in the insurance sector
Benefits
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Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office - SK4 2HD)
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Truly flexible working.
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25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
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Top employer for 10th year running
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Excellent training and development platform
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Opportunities for career progression
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Health and Wellbeing programme
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Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
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Life and health assurance
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Electric Vehicle Scheme
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Established Recognition Award System
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Great Parental Benefits
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Diversity and Inclusion network
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Pension scheme
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Community projects and volunteer days
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Refer a friend bonus
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On-site free parking
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Open plan modern offices
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Quiet Spaces are also available
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Shuttle bus to and from the station
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Subsidised restaurant
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Games room and chill out zone
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Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events
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Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more!
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Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site
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Cycle to work scheme
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Shower and dry rooms