Automation Test Specialist

Job Title: Automation Test Specialist ((Minerva VAT TxR)

Rate: £472 per day inside ir35

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford/hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

SC security clearance is required for this role

We are seeking a proactive Test Automation Specialist to join an IT consultancy and digital transformation organisation working on a long-standing UK government programme. You'll focus on designing, developing and maintaining automated test frameworks and pipelines to support analytics solutions on the SAS Viya 4 platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting.
• Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications
• Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs.
• Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines.
• Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in test automation for data-driven or analytics platforms.
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, PyTest, JUnit (or equivalent).
• Experience testing UI-based applications (ideally SAS Visual Analytics or similar BI tools).
• Proven experience with integration testing of data pipelines and services.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, contributing to ceremonies and sprint delivery.

Technical Environment (Desirable):

• Experience with SAS Viya 4 (or SAS Viya 3.x) platforms.
• Knowledge of SAS Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID).
• Understanding of containerised platforms such as OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Git-based version control and branching strategies.

If you are interested in this role, please feel free to submit your CV