Lead Automation Engineer
Bournemouth / Hybrid
£Competitive Salary + Pension + Great Company Culture + Holidays + Hybrid Working + Progression + Good Leadership Team + Life Assurance + Opportunity to Travel + Gym Membership + Casual Dress Code + Company Social Events

Are you an experienced Automation Engineer/Tester looking to join a fantastic and expanding business where you will be a valued member of the team?

This company are a very well known and a highly reputable business within the defence sector. They design, produce and manufacture state of the art software for the defence sectors to thrive. They are now looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to join them and drive the automation testing forward.

In this role you will play a key part in leading the company's software automation testing. As a business they have used mostly manual testing but now require an experienced automation engineer to break through into automation techniques and procedures and lead the company in that direction.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced Automation Tester / Engineer with the ability to lead from the front and migrate manual testing to automation testing. You will also be required to help better the teams automation skills and have experience in CI methods, Jenkins and Python.

A great opportunity to join a really thriving business who are market leaders in their field and be a part of a very interesting and exciting transitional period.

The Role:
*Migrate the company from manual to automation testing
*Lead automation testing projects and
*Be responsible for improving automation testing with your peers
*Working with Python, Jenkins and CI infrastructure
*£Competitive Salary + Pension + Great Company Culture + Holidays + Hybrid Working + Progression + Good Leadership Team + Life Assurance + Opportunity to Travel + Gym Membership + Casual Dress Code + Company Social Events

The Person:
*Experienced Automation Engineer /Tester
*Ability to provide support to colleagues with automation testing
*Strong skills with Python, Jenkins and CI infrastrcure
*Commutable to Bournemouth