Automation Test Engineer | Outside IR35 | Remote

The Role

Working within an Agile delivery team, you'll test changes across Front End applications, APIs and downstream services. You'll influence requirements early, develop reusable automated tests and provide the evidence needed to make informed release decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated UI, API and integration tests, embedding them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Validate complete business journeys through functional, regression, exploratory and end-to-end testing.
• Work with developers and Product Owners to clarify acceptance criteria, identify risks and agree appropriate test coverage.
• Maintain clear links between requirements, test cases, execution results and defects using Jira and Xray.
• Investigate failures, document reproducible defects and verify fixes through retesting.
• Communicate test outcomes, coverage gaps and unresolved risks to support release readiness.

Essential

• Strong hands-on test automation experience, ideally with Playwright, Cypress and/or Python.
• Experience testing REST APIs, checking JSON/XML payloads and automating integration and contract tests.
• Practical experience with tools such as Postman, Bruno or REST Assured.
• Ability to interpret Swagger/OpenAPI specifications and translate them into effective API tests.
• Experience using Jira and Xray for test management, traceability and defect tracking.
• A collaborative Agile testing approach, with strong analytical skills and the confidence to challenge unclear requirements constructively.

Desirable

• Experience testing applications hosted on AWS.
• Ability to investigate application behaviour through CloudWatch logs.
• SQL skills for validating Back End data and checking the impact of application changes.

The Details

• Contract role
• Duration: Until the 10th of December initially and then until the end of March + extensions
• IR35 status: Outside IR35
• Day rate: circa £400p/d
• Location: Remote