Team – Vitality Applications
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in any Vitality Office. Full time hours.
Top 3 skills required:
- Expertise in Test Automation and Framework Engineering and AI‑augmented testing
- Leadership and Strategic Influence
- Multi-Specialism Technical Expertise
What this role is all about:
Join Vitality as a Principal Test Engineer and help shape how quality is delivered in an evolving, AI‑influenced engineering landscape. You’ll lead the technical direction of our automation capability while guiding teams through the practical adoption of AI‑enabled testing and intelligent tooling. This role combines deep hands‑on engineering with genuine influence, giving you the opportunity to raise standards, shape strategy, and grow your own expertise as AI becomes an increasingly integral part of how we build and assure software.
Key Actions
- Implement the software test lifecycle: Own and continuously refine the full software test lifecycle, from analysis and design through execution and reporting. You’ll champion automation‑first and AI‑assisted testing approaches that are scalable, efficient, and embedded from the earliest stages of delivery.
- Recognised technical authority: Act as a trusted technical leader for advanced automation, modern testing, and emerging AI‑enabled quality practices. You’ll set direction, unblock complex challenges, and raise the bar for engineering excellence across teams.
- Adhere to testing standards: Champion Vitality’s Group test strategy, embedding progressive engineering standards while evolving our approach to incorporate intelligent tooling and smart analytics where they add value.
- Subject matter expert in standards: Serve as the SME for testing standards across Vitality. You’ll lead the adoption of best‑in‑class frameworks, patterns, and tooling, ensuring consistency, maintainability, and continuous improvement — including experimentation with AI where appropriate.
- Engage stakeholders: Work closely with architects, developers, UX designers, product owners, analysts, and delivery leads. You’ll translate complex requirements into robust test strategies, ensuring quality and AI‑enabled insight are tightly aligned to business outcomes.
- Build and transfer knowledge: Invest in your own growth through hands‑on learning, mentoring, and exposure to AI engineering capabilities within the business. You’ll coach and inspire engineers, helping to build a high‑performing automation and quality community.
- Specialist expertise: Bring deep expertise in two testing specialisms (including automation), while continuing to develop capability in a third. You’ll also have the opportunity to broaden your skill set into AI‑supported testing and quality engineering over time.
- Collaborate within and across teams: Work collaboratively across squads, sharing knowledge, aligning on best practices, and delivering reliable, scalable solutions at pace.
- AI powered testing automation: Encourage appropriate and ethical use of AI-Powered Test Tools ensuring ethical and secure use of AI , staying informed over emerging AI capabilities & best practices. Ensuring AI enhances your role without compromising accountability, quality and trust.
What do you need to thrive?
- 6+ Years of hands-on Automation Testing experience with extensive knowledge of C#, Java & Selenium.
Bring a strong capability across at least two areas (such as test automation and a relevant coding language), with a curiosity to keep learning and growing alongside the team.
Proven experience in shaping and sharing non-functional testing approaches & working closely with others to raise quality across the board.
- Strong experience in API test automation, including scenario design, data setup, and validation
Experience with synthetic test data management and orchestration, supporting teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions together.
- Proven ability to lead test teams and coach developing engineers
- Strong communication skills to influence and collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders
- Curiosity and appetite to learn and apply AI engineering concepts within a quality and automation context
So, what’s in it for you?
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.
We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!
Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.
We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.
Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
