Job title: Test Automation Engineer - 12 month FTC
Job type: Perm
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Government
Salary type: Annual
Salary from: GBP £55,000.00
Salary to: GBP £70,000.00
Location: Brighton
Job published: 29-04-2025
Job ID: 41281

Job Description

Test Automation Engineer
Location: Hybrid / Brighton (1-2 days a week in Brighton)
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 (plus bonus, Excellent Pension and Employee Benefits)
12 month Fixed Term Contract

Skills: Playwright or ReqnRoll / Specflow, Selenium, TDD, SQL Server, C#.Net, Automated Testing

Join a busy and successful Test Team, working alongside Agile Dev Teams to deliver on a range of important projects.  Our Client is a high profile Government body that provides essential services to protect peoples savings in the UK.  If you are an experienced Automation Tester who can prioritise and a natural problem solver with a ‘can-do’ approach please get in touch!

Responsibilities

  • Lead and peer-review the work of other test team members.  Lead on investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
  • Input into the test strategy team and advise on automation testing with recommendations for improvement
  • From scratch, develop the product and development teams’ approach to testing - e.g. a framework for test driven development
  • Design and develop automated test scripts with a focus on SQL-based data validation, ensuring the accuracy of data flows and transformation.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Be the person on-point and overall responsible for the automation testing delivery within the Platform team.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of emerging tools and techniques.
  • Effectively work across different tools and software languages.

Essential

  • 5+ years automation and manual testing experience of web-based applications.
  • Playwright and ReqnRoll / Specflow knowledge and experience
  • Experienced in C#.Net and SQL Server.
  • Experience crafting automation tests and demonstrating test frameworks and pipelines, collaborating in any of the following: RESTful services, Message Queues, Relational Databases.
  • Experience of SQL scripting and proven capability of writing sophisticated queries to analyse problems, and interrogate data pipelines
  • Experience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development/implementation.