Quality Automation Specialist

Closing date for applications: 28/06/2026

Location Manchester, United Kingdom

Salary £45,840 – £68,760

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Mostly Remote

You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues.

Managerial / Technical Lead

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models

We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value

Working in a fast paced environment, you'll benefit from great variety in your work as well as excellent exposure as you work closely with a variety of people across the bank

What you'll do

As a Quality Automation Specialist, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value life cycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market, to guarantee that any defects are identified as early as possible.

It’s a highly collaborative role, in which you’ll have the chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions

Collaborating with your team to define and refine the scope of manual and automated testing, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts

Making sure decisions are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management

Enabling the cross skilling of colleagues with the skills and benefits of end-to-end automation testing

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of end-to-end automated testing using the latest tools as recommended by the enterprise tooling framework, in an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code. You’ll also need experience leading automation across different automation frameworks in industry’s like Selenium, Playwright, Rest API and Appium, along with strong expertise in designing, developing and implementing automation frameworks in new environments.

You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

We’ll also look for you to have:

Hands-on experience on working on SaaS based devices such as Sauce Labs, Browser Stack and using it for test automation

Strong experience in either of the programming languages such as Java, JavaScript

Good working knowledge on using AI in Quality Engineering.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues

Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

Hands-on experience working on CI/CD Tooling like GitLab, GitHub

Your benefits breakdown

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Please note, the presented benefits packages are based on the minimum base salary.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

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Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Spinningfields hub

Spinningfields is Manchester’s leading leisure, retail, and business district and home to some of the most incredible architecture, restaurants, flagship stores, and bars the city has to offer.

Key facts:

Space for 1,345 colleagues from various teams across the bank

Our outdoor roof terrace has panoramic views of the city

Opened in 2023

Our tech stack

Here’s just some of the technologies we use.

Front end

JavaScript

ReactJS

AngularJS

Back end

Python

Java

Microsoft Dynamics

DevOps

AWS

GitLab

Google Cloud Platform

Data

Kafka

Hadoop

PostgreSQL

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