Senior Test Automation Engineer

What if your next automation test could help a university deliver a more personalised, seamless experience to every student, from enrolment through to graduation?

About Tribal

Tribal is a leading EdTech business providing market leading software solutions to the global education market. We strive to research, develop and deliver the products, services and solutions needed by education institutes worldwide to support their primary goals of educating students, providing optimum learning experiences and ultimately delivering successful outcomes.

We’re looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our Development team who maintaining and deploying our SITS platform. The Team are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing solutions to ensure software quality.

Tribal’s SITS platform is built for higher education institutions striving to elevate the entire student journey. From enrolment to graduation, SITS empowers universities to seamlessly collect, analyse, and act on critical data, turning insights into meaningful action. It’s more than just software; it’s a transformational tool that streamlines operations, enhances collaboration, and ensures every student receives a personalised, outcome-driven experience.

Join our vibrant team in Hessle! You'll enjoy a balanced work week with 3 days in our friendly and welcoming office, and 2 days working from the comfort of your home.

The Role

As Senior Test Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining automated tests to ensure the quality and functionality of our SITS platform to for our customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with developers and testers to define the necessary testing levels during the testing phase.
• Develop, design, and maintain automated test scripts (including regression tests) to validate system functionality as outlined in product specifications.
• Contribute to the creation of user acceptance criteria.
• Identify practices within automated testing and processes to enhance quality and efficiency throughout the software testing cycle.
• Partner with developers and analysts to assess the impact of new features and defect fixes.
• Participate in beta testing with customers, offering training and advisory support.
• Gain a deep understanding of the product and real-world user personas to ensure the validity of testing.
• Deploy software builds to test environments.
• Advocate and implement approaches, test tools and methodologies to drive quality and efficiency within the software and testing lifecycle.
• Act as a mentor and coach to Junior Test Automation Engineers and Test Automation Engineers, driving expertise in the discipline of software testing and ensuring the appropriate level of tests are designed.
• Represent the team at significant team and project meetings.

The skills you’ll bring:

• IT Related Qualification.
• Experience as a Test Automation Engineer.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience within the further education industry.

Concerned you're not quite at Senior Level yet? Don't worry, feel free to apply and we can discuss your experience regardless.

What can Tribal offer you?

We offer a range of exceptional benefits to support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including a comprehensive Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme, along with a generous parental leave package and the ability to buy or sell holiday each year. We also offer the option of working overseas for up to 8 weeks per year. You'll also have access to E-Learning Opportunities to enhance your skills, Volunteer Days to give back to your community and access to Achievers, our reward and recognition platform, to ensure you can thrive both personally and professionally in a supportive and rewarding environment.

We’re committed to creating an environment that enables employees to balance their responsibilities inside and outside of work and encourage and support a range of flexible working patterns for all colleagues. If you need flexibility, apply and discuss your needs with us.

As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector.

Note to all applicants - Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.