Sdet

Summary: The role of SDET involves taking ownership of automation, quality engineering, and test strategy for a high-visibility digital platform within a major UK government transformation programme. The position requires a hands-on approach to design and implement a new automation framework and ensure quality governance. The role is contract-based, requiring on-site presence in Birmingham for 2-3 days a week. Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance and have a strong background in automation engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build a new automation framework within Azure DevOps
• Create a data-driven automated regression suite
• Implement automation across CI/CD pipelines
• Develop test automation for integrations, APIs, and platform services
• Lead test strategy covering: integration, API, performance, security, accessibility (WCAG 2.2) and regression
• Own test evidence, metrics, reporting and quality governance
• Collaborate with architects, product leads and project managers to define testability and coverage
• Perform targeted manual testing only where automation isn't feasible

Key Skills:

• Strong automation engineering background
• Azure DevOps
• Dataverse
• API testing + API automation
• Power Automate
• Azure APIM
• Ability to architect automation pipelines for CI/CD
• Comfortable presenting coverage, metrics and automation outcomes to stakeholders
• Understanding of performance, security and accessibility testing principles

Salary (Rate): £575/day

City: Birmingham

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT