About Us
Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace – our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal.
Founded in 2017, our award winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of over 350 across 4 locations.
Motorway is now valued at over $1 billion and is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.
This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.
About the role
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Senior Automation engineer to join our Quality Assurance team!
This job is incredibly important, this is a greenfield opportunity where you'll take ownership of parts of our automation strategy to build new features and products alongside your squad. Also, you will decide where and what new automated tests are needed to best understand and surface information on new features and code.
We operate a JavaScript monostack, using the latest JS features heavily. We use Cypress, PostreSQL with Sequelize ORM and Redis databases. Out team uses Git flow of github, and we have an agile development process, allowing us to deploy new features multiple times a day.
Responsibilities
- Owning the automation efforts for the pillar and squad you’re assigned.
- Moving between different automation frameworks when one or the other needs attention e.g. Cypress, Datadog API tests, PACT.
- Creating automation with fast feedback loops in mind.
- Contributing to and driving the automation strategy for Motorway.
- Collaborating with developers to have them contribute to the automation suite.
- Demonstrating to squads and stakeholders the benefits of automation.
- Taking your squad on the quality journey by including them in resolutions and the results of the testing.
- Embodying the shift left mentality.
- Helping the squad out when extra functional testing is needed.
- Managing time between automation and other tasks.
- Helping coach and mentor other automation testers with a view to line management in the future.
Requirements
We encourage you to apply, even if you might not meet all the following skills:
- Experience in testing software within an agile environment. This includes understanding what roles and responsibilities that come with being a quality engineer.
- Experience in functional/non-functional, exploratory and context-driven testing. This extends to knowing when to use different types of testing and being able to explain why.
- Experience in creating test cases for automated testing, being an advocate for the inclusion of automation in the build process and bringing engineers onboard to taking responsibility of automation tests within the development lifecycle
- Knowledge of modern development and testing practices, such as shifting left, quality engineering, CI/CD and cloud based technology.
- Knowledge of agile development practices and a champion of them and know how to be flexible when required to balance quality and speed.
- Being able to speak to a variety of people with different levels of technical, product and contextual knowledge about the state of quality they need to know.
- Willing to learn and grow within a fast-paced environment.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with an interest in technology.
- Self-driven, good communication, proud of your work, and a team player.
Benefits
- A competitive salary.
- Annual learning budget with Learnerbly.
- BUPA health insurance.
- Discounted dental through BUPA.
- Discounted gym membership through BUPA.
- On-Hand Volunteering membership + Volunteering day.
- Flexible working from home.
- Pension scheme.
- Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount.
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
- Top spec M1 MacBook Pro and accessories.
- Regular social events.
- Cycle to work scheme.
Equal opportunities statement
Motorway is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where people can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.
We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
