Automation Test Engineer - Security-cleared
Posted 3 days ago by Parker Shaw
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
National - on-site requirements minimal and many locations available, UK
Summary: We are seeking an experienced Automation Test Engineer for a 6-month contract role that offers flexibility with occasional on-site requirements across various locations in the UK. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in designing automated test frameworks and proficiency in tools like Playwright and Cypress. This position requires expertise in testing services built with Kotlin and TypeScript, as well as a solid understanding of API testing and integration resilience. Candidates should be prepared to manage User Acceptance Testing and work in complex system environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement automated test frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Utilize Playwright and/or Cypress for E2E test automation.
- Test services built with Kotlin and TypeScript.
- Conduct API testing, including legacy systems and modern integration services.
- Perform integration resilience testing, handling failures and timeouts.
- Familiarize with contract testing (e.g., PACT).
- Work in environments with multiple APIs and complex system interactions.
- Test cross-system state changes and updates propagation.
- Create and maintain smoke tests, regression tests, and core user journey tests.
- Verify data integrity across imports, exports, and sync processes.
- Understand data migration testing (data mapping, transformation, validation).
- Test data-driven features using database technologies (e.g., Postgres, SQL).
- Manage enterprise-level testing and large, distributed system architectures.
- Test error handling, edge cases, and resilience to operational failures.
- Utilize performance and load testing tools (e.g., Gatling) for UI and API layers.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with operational teams.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in automated test frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Proficiency with Playwright and/or Cypress.
- Hands-on experience with Kotlin and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of API testing.
- Experience with integration resilience testing.
- Familiarity with contract testing (e.g., PACT).
- Experience in complex system interactions.
- Ability to test cross-system state changes.
- Experience with feature-flagged releases.
- Ability to create and maintain various types of tests.
- Experience in testing data flows and data integrity.
- Understanding of data migration testing (nice to have).
- Knowledge of database technologies (e.g., Postgres, SQL).
- Experience with enterprise-level testing.
- Ability to test error handling and edge cases.
- Familiarity with performance and load testing tools.
- Experience managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Automation Test Engineer to work a 6-month contract with our client. Candidates can be based anywhere nationwide - on-site requirements will be occasional only and flexible as our client has many sites around the country.
Minimum Requirement:
- Strong experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks for UI, API, and endto end testing
- Proficiency with Playwright and/or Cypress for E2E test automation
- Hands on experience testing services built with Kotlin and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of API testing, including calls to Legacy systems and modern integration services
- Experience with integration resilience testing (handling failures, timeouts, and degraded upstream dependencies)
- Familiarity with contract testing (eg, PACT)
- Experience working in environments with multiple APIs and complex system interactions
- Ability to test cross system state changes, especially where updates propagate across systems (eg, OASys, nDelius)
- Experience with featureflagged releases and testing behaviour under multiple featureflag states
- Ability to create and maintain smoke tests, regression tests, and core user journey tests (happy/unhappy paths)
- Experience in testing data flows, including verifying data integrity across imports, exports, and sync processes
- Understanding of data migration testing (data mapping, transformation, and validation) - nice to have
- Knowledge of database technologies (eg, Postgres, SQL) and how to test data driven features
- Experience with enterprise level testing and large, distributed system architectures
- Ability to test error handling, edge cases, and resilience to operational failure modes
- Familiarity with performance and load testing tools (eg, Gatling) for both UI and API layers
- Experience managing and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with operational teams
If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.
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