What is the opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a domain expert in Gen AI - Test Automation to join our Lean central Group Test Centre for Enablement (TC4E) team! We are accountable in defining the enterprise test frameworks & provide technical SME support to test teams who are federated to Domains in the Bank of Ireland.
The successful candidate will be a key player in continuous improvement on Enterprise Automation Frameworks across the domains by demonstrating industry leading tools stacks and trends. You will coach new automation teams on automation framework and resolve technical challenges/blockers in automation delivery by federated test teams.
In this role you will:
* Design, Develop and Manage our Test Automation frameworks to support wide range of applications built on latest technologies along with legacy applications
* Design domain-specific prompts and workflows tailored to business functions in Copilot to design functional test cases
* Train Copilot with the enterprise frameworks for targeted response while designing automated test cases.
* Fine-tune or embed custom datasets to enhance Copilot's contextual accuracy.
* Structure and tag internal contents with Copilot for semantic search and relevance.
* Work with DevOps team to deploy automation tests as part of the CI/CD process
* Evaluate new technology options and Automation tools and predicts trends and develops long-range plans designed to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness
* Design and implement test automation strategy including roadmap, tools, framework & approach across project teams
* Help us support the monitoring and governing enterprise automation framework, identify issues, and implement solutions
* Continuously improve the enterprise automation frameworks to ensure it supports the growth and technical advancements of the bank
* Keep up to date with advancements and best practices of all the automation framework and related technologies
What will make you stand out?
We are seeking a technical leader with enthusiasm and a growth mentality who prioritises collaboration with others. You have a proactive approach to achieve the necessary outcome while improving processes, team knowledge and tooling.
You have a proven track record as Automation Test Architect designing automation frameworks with 5+ years working in an agile team in a technical leadership capacity. You have deep technical knowledge on Selenium WebDriver, UFT and good understanding of GUI/Database/Web Service Automation.
Key Technical Skills Required:
* Strong knowledge of Test Automation and services as well as working experience in Agile, Waterfall and DevOps environment.
* Minimum of 10+ years of experience in Automation test delivery
* Experience in brining Gen AI capabilities, specifically GitHub Co-pilot to improve the Test Team productivity
* Proficiency in any scripting language such as Java, python, Perl, PowerShell, Groovy, Shell scripts and Bash
* Strong Experience with Automation tools like Selenium WebDriver, UFT and good understanding of GUI/Database/Web Service Automation.
* Good experience in MAVEN, GIT, XML and JSON.
* Experience with Github Copilot Enterprise.
* Good experience on Prompt engineering to fine tune responses.
* Experience in implementing RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines and context augmentation techniques.
* Very good knowledge in CI tools like JENKINS, HUDSON or TEAMCITY.
* Strong IT skills/understanding, including experiencing working with Information Security, integrated platforms and Infrastructure
* Pro-active, independent and ability to multi-task and meet multiple deadlines
Experience with any of the following will help you to stand out, but is not essential;
* Building AI agents using GitHub Co-Pilot
* Cucumber, UFT & PYTest automation framework or equivalent.
* DevOps tools & technologies such as Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker and Kubernetes.
* GitHub Co-pilot LLM creation experience
Essential Qualifications
There are no minimum educational requirements for this role.
Why work with us
The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.
Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!
Key Competencies
* Customer Focused - Leader
* One Group, one team - Leader
* Agile - Leader
* Champion Transformation - Leader
* Accountable - Self
We`re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.
Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
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