Junior Automation Developer

Bionic is a leading tech-enabled business switching service. We empower small business owners with a radically easier way for them to sort their business essentials through our smart technology. 

We've evolved into a digital business, investing heavily in talent and a cutting-edge tech platform, developing unique customer journeys, in addition to expanding our range of products. 

By combining smart technology with world class human service, we help match a growing number of small business customers with the right energy, insurance, connectivity and finance providers and products - with speed, convenience, clarity and trust.

To support our continued growth and exciting plans, we’re looking for a Junior Automation Developer to join our Salesforce Team and build scalable, high-quality solutions that enhance business processes, integrate seamlessly with other systems, and enable Bionic to deliver exceptional customer experiences while driving operational efficiency and innovation.

The Role 

You will be a member of the Salesforce Squad who maintains and grows our Salesforce platform to enable Marketing, Sales, Commercial, and Customer Service teams to provide a first-class service to our customers. 

You will support the development of technical solutions that deliver business requirements and assist with integrating the Salesforce platform with other enterprise applications. You will be working closely with Software Engineers, Salesforce Administrators, the Salesforce Technical Lead and Software Architects to implement solutions supported by extensive automated tests. 

This role is key to building and maintaining our e2e test automation suite. You will focus on developing automated tests and learning to build Salesforce solutions, while collaborating with the rest of the team to promote test automation best practices. As you grow in the role, you'll help expand automation knowledge across the team and contribute to ensuring high quality software and platform stability. 

The Team 

The Salesforce Team are pivotal to the Bionic organisation and provide business critical services to support teams within Bionic. The team contains Developers, Administrators and Product resources to ensure successful delivery of projects, small improvements and continuous technical essentials to the platform. 

This role is based in our London Office on a hybrid basis (1 day a week in-office). 

About you 

As the Salesforce Engineer your key responsibilities will be: 

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for Salesforce applications 

• Execute automated test suites and analyse results to identify defects 

• Collaborate with developers and business analysts to understand application functionality and testing requirements 

• Document test cases, test results, and defects clearly and thoroughly 

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving our testing practices 

• Learn Salesforce platform fundamentals and how to effectively test within the Salesforce ecosystem 

• Assist in maintaining and expanding our test automation framework 

• Gain exposure to Salesforce development concepts including Apex, Lightning Web Components, and Salesforce APIs 

• Transition into Salesforce development work as skills and experience grow 

Required skills and experience 

• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar tools 

• Programming experience in an object orientated programming language. 

• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) 

• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools 

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies 

• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Excellent attention to detail 

• Good written and verbal communication skills 

• Eagerness to learn new technologies and platforms 

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment 

• Interest in growing beyond testing into full-stack development 

• Being passionate about quality and test automation. 

Desirable skills and experience 

• Experience with Provar (Salesforce-specific test automation tool) 

• Experience with API testing 

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and web technologies 

• Any prior exposure to Salesforce platform or CRM systems 

• Interest in pursuing Salesforce certifications 

The interview process 

• Initial conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition Team 

• 1st stage tech interview with the Salesforce Tech Lead 

• 2nd Final stage values & soft skills interview with Tech and Product Lead 

About Bionic Group

Bionic has 600 people working across three office locations and four businesses; Bionic - London, Bionic Outbound – Luton, Think Business Loans – Chelmsford, and Smart – Field based agents.

We have a high energy work environment wherever the location; you can feel the passion the moment you walk through our door! Our work environments are packed with amazing people and energy, hubs of collaboration, creativity and fun! We’re one team, we get stuck in, we roll our sleeves up and we care about helping each other out wherever we can. We set the highest standards and show up every day to be the best version of ourselves.

Working at Bionic means provides you many opportunities to advance your career, with incredible progression, recognition, and reward.

Benefits

We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.

Enhance your health & wellbeing 🌱

·         Private healthcare cover

·         Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies

·         Eyecare scheme

Taking time away from work 🏖️

·         25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure

·         1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period

·         1 paid charity volunteering day per year

·         Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year

Family matters: for the special moments 🏠

·         Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave

·         2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service

·         Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach

Financial wellbeing 💸

·         Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme

·         Life assurance

·         Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure

·         Cycle to work scheme

Recognition 🌟

·         Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success

·         Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition

·         Long service awards