Lead SAP Test Automation Engineer

About the Role

The Lead SAP Automation Engineer will take ownership of automation delivery across SAP processes, ensuring high‑quality, scalable solutions under tight timelines. This role requires strong SAP or ERP knowledge, and the ability to lead, guide, and unblock the wider automation team. The Lead Engineer will drive best practices, resolve complex issues, and ensure automation readiness for programme milestones.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: 
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role and responsibilities

• Lead the design, creation, and execution of automated regression packs across SAP processes using Tricentis Tosca.
• Oversee and deliver automated field‑masking tests using Playwright.
• Act as the primary escalation point for resolving complex or blocking technical issues, working closely with solution leads, architects, and delivery managers.
• Ensure consistent and high‑quality defect documentation in Jira, and oversee retesting cycles and defect workflows.
• Provide clear progress updates, risk visibility, and quality reporting to team leads during daily stand‑ups and project ceremonies.
• Support, mentor, and upskill junior automation engineers to ensure efficient team output and delivery quality.
• Contribute to automation strategy, standards, and continuous improvement across the test function.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Required Skills

• Expertise with Tricentis Tosca ideally expert.
• Strong hands‑on experience with SAP or large‑scale ERP systems (Oracle and others considered).
• Proficiency with Jira for defect logging, workflow management, and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience leading or guiding others within agile, sprint‑based delivery environments.
• Excellent communication skills with strong stakeholder management capability.
• High attention to detail, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to make confident, informed decisions.
• Ability to work independently while supporting and coaching less experienced team members.
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Desirable Skills

• Playwright + JavaScript automation experience.
• Working knowledge of VSCode.
• Broader test automation framework design.

Security Check (SC) Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Management or, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance.  Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.  All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.