Five Test Engineer contracts on a UK public sector digital programme, building UI and API automation frameworks from scratch on cloud-native platforms.
Contract: 12 months
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK (preferred); London, Greater London, UK; Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK; Manchester, Greater Manchester, UK; Blackpool, Lancashire, UK; Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Working pattern: Hybrid, 2 days a week onsite
Clearance: active, previously held or eligible for SC
Join Agile, multidisciplinary teams delivering digital services for a central government department, across microservices and event-driven systems on AWS and Kafka.
You will embed quality from framework design to production validation, alongside developers, BAs and product owners.
- Build scalable UI and API automation frameworks in Java
- Deliver functional, regression, integration and end-to-end automation
- Automate UI testing with Selenium WebDriver and Playwright
- Automate API testing with REST Assured, including schema validation
- Ensure WCAG compliance using WAVE, AXE DevTools and VoiceOver
- Apply context-driven, risk-based testing to product risks
- Report test, risk and defect traceability to stakeholders
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing
- Test cloud and event-driven systems using AWS (S3, Lambda, DocumentDB) and Kafka
- Support performance and load testing with K6
- Java automation: Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured, Playwright, Cucumber BDD
- Building automation frameworks from scratch
- UI and API automation best practice
- REST API testing, JSON/XML validation, Postman, Insomnia, Swagger
- Full testing lifecycle, from design to production validation
- Accessibility testing (WAVE, AXE, VoiceOver) and WCAG compliance
- CI/CD integration, Git/GitLab and Maven
- Agile (Scrum) and defect lifecycle management in JIRA
- AWS and event-driven architectures (Kafka)
- Performance testing tools such as K6
- Testing cloud-native and distributed systems
- Contract testing methodologies and tools
- Public sector or large-scale enterprise delivery
UK right-to-work candidates only, including eligible dependant visa holders and those with ILR.
Unfortunately, visa sponsorship or Skilled Worker visa support is not available.