Job Advert
Fully remote or hybrid
Are you a passionate Automation Tester looking to make a meaningful impact? At Animal Friends, we’re on the hunt for a tech-savvy, detail-oriented individual to help us deliver exceptional quality in everything we do. We’re a fun, hardworking team that strives for the best, and we’d love for you to join our journey!
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Building and improving test automation frameworks from scratch using JavaScript with tools like Playwright or Cypress.
- Driving quality at all levels of the testing pyramid, including E2E and API testing.
- Collaborating in a mature Agile environment to deliver exciting projects that make a real difference.
- Coaching and supporting QA team members while embedding scalable, maintainable automation practices.
- Ensuring quick feedback loops and confident production releases through smart test automation.
What We’re Looking For:
Essential Skills:
- Experience creating test frameworks for medium-to-large projects.
- Proficiency in JavaScript with tools like Cypress/Playwright.
- Strong API testing knowledge (e.g., Axios).
- Agile sprint experience and excellent communication skills.
- Familiarity with tools like Azure DevOps, Postman, K6, and GIT.
Bonus Points For:
- Performance/load testing expertise.
- Cloud testing experience (Azure or AWS).
- Background in financial services or insurance.
Why Animal Friends?
We’re more than just a company, we’re a community. With a strong focus on work-life balance, a collaborative and supportive culture, and opportunities to grow, you’ll thrive while working on projects that truly matter.
Plus, we know how to have fun along the way!
Ready to bring your skills to a team that values innovation and excellence? Apply now and let’s make a difference together!
Why Join Us?
At Animal Friends, we believe in balance, great work-life harmony, exciting challenges, and a workplace where fun meets hard work. You’ll be part of a company that values your growth while creating solutions that truly make a difference.
Ready to bring your skills to a company that cares? Apply now and let’s build something amazing together!
What Animal Friends is all about!
We are part of the Pinnacle Pet Group (PPG) – a pan European fully integrated pet insurance and pet health services provider. On a mission to help pets live happy, healthy lives with their pet parents, PPG are committed to supporting the diverse needs of their customers and colleagues with a clear ambition to become the world leader in pet insurance and healthcare services.
Animal Friends has grown to become not only an award-winning business but one of the largest pet insurance providers in the UK, with around 500 colleagues helping us to look after over 1 million pets, offering cover for cats, dogs and horses.
A large part of our success is due to our company values which are the foundation of how we work, we are courageous by continually looking for new ways to innovate our customers experience and the pet insurance industry. We are kind-hearted with animal welfare being important to us, we donate and support over 800 charities and conservancies across the UK and worldwide, to date, we have donated over £8.5 million. And we are passionate about the support we provide to our customers helping them care for their pets.
Benefits Of Working With Animal Friends
We recognise that your hard work shouldn`t come without its perks, so here`s a little list of some of the things you can expect to get from us:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and we give you your birthday off
- Fully paid day off for charity work
- 95% of our employee’s own pets, we’re able to provide up to 50% off insurance along with free access to our Vet consultation app JOII
- We believe looking after employees’ health is important, so we offer discount on gym membership, access to a Wellbeing hub
- We like to celebrate success and recognise excellent employee performance; we will donate £3k to the charity of our employee of the quarter’s choice
- Most importantly, you`ll be working within a courageous, passionate and kind-hearted team
Animal Friends Pet Insurance Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions, and sexual orientations. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
We offer accessibility help with application forms which is available via the jobs page of our website.
As an FCA regulated business, we require successful applicants to clear our pre-employment screening process which includes a credit check and references checks. Under the latest UK Right to Work regulations, we will require successful applicants to evidence their right to work in the UK, either in person, online, or digitally via a third party subject to circumstances.
Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled rather than the advertised closing date. Interviews will take place throughout this period; therefore, we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.
All secondment positions have the potential to become permanent in the future, this will be dependent upon business need.
Department
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
37.5
Salary
Up to £50K
