Automation Engineer

Role: Senior Test Automation Engineer

Location: Bolton Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Salary: £45,000–£55,000 + Excellent Benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experience d Automation Engineer to join an established software engineering team developing a large-scale, business-critical platform

.
The successful candidate will take ownership of designing and building a modern automation framework from the ground up, helping to ensure the quality, reliability and performance of a complex distributed system. Working alongside experienced software engineers, architects and DevOps professionals, they will play a key role in embedding automation throughout the software delivery lifecycl

e.
This position would suit someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building scalable automation frameworks and working with modern cloud technologi

es.
Key Responsibili

ties
The successful candidate

• will:Design and develop a C#-based test automation framework from scr
• atch.Develop automated tests for APIs and service-level functiona
• lity.Validate asynchronous and event-driven workflows across distributed serv
• ices.Test complex end-to-end business proce
• sses.Verify data integrity across relational and NoSQL datab
• ases.Validate service contracts and data transformat
• ions.Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipel
• ines.Support software quality across Development, Test, Staging and Production environm
• ents.Investigate and troubleshoot complex cross-service is
• sues.Continuously improve automation coverage, reliability and perform
• ance.Ensure clear reporting, traceability and auditability of automated test execu

tion.
Skills & Expe

rience
Applicants shoul

• d have:Strong commercial experience with C#/.NET test auto
• mation.Proven experience building automation frameworks from the gro
• und up.Experience testing distributed or microservices-based applic
• ations.Strong API and HTTP testing expe
• rience.Experience working with event-driven or message-based archite
• ctures.Strong SQL skills, including complex queries and data vali
• dation.Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pip
• elines.Experience using NUnit or
• MSTest.Experience with HttpClient or Res
• tSharp.Experience working within containerised or virtualised enviro

nments.
Salary &

• Benefits
  Hybrid
• working.25 days' annual leave plus bank
• holidays.Company
• pension.Share option
• s scheme.Free on-site
• parking.Opportunity to work with modern technologies on a large-scale platform within a collaborative engineering env

ironment.
If you're interested, please

apply now!
Role: Senior Test Automati

on Engine erLocation: Bolton Hybrid (2 days per week in

the offic e)Job Type: Permanent

, Full- TimeSalary: £45,000–£55,000 + Excelle

nt Benefits