Software Developer in Test - Edinburgh

Software Developer in Test - 6 Month Contract - Scotland Based

Our main public sector client is looking for an experienced Software Developer in Test (SDET) to join a small specialist testing team, helping to shape and deliver robust test strategy and automation across in-house applications.

Contract details

  • Duration: 6 months (possible extension)
  • Location: Glasgow
  • IR35: Outside IR35
  • Rate: £400-£450 per day
Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

  • Work as part of a small team of SDET specialists to ensure test plans are understood, integrated, delivered, and automated where possible
  • Coordinate and manage test schedules across workstreams
  • Build and maintain testing artefacts, looking ahead to identify opportunities/blockers and ensuring team decisions align to overall strategy
  • Identify operational improvements and help ensure a stable service that can be enhanced iteratively
  • Anticipate and mitigate project challenges or risks
  • Work with and support third parties providing testing services
  • Create test frameworks and automation tests for in-house applications and support release assurance for the team
Essential Technical Skills & Experience

We're looking for strong, hands-on experience across:

  • Best-practice test approaches
  • Test automation in CI/CD pipelines (specifically GitHub Actions)
  • Selenium/WebDriver test automation
  • Java and JavaScript
  • BDD tooling (Gherkin/Cucumber)
  • Confident working in Linux-based environments
  • AWS environment experience
  • Database experience in 2+ of the following: MariaDB / Oracle / MySQL / AWS Aurora
  • 2+ years (within the past 5 years) of MySQL scripting

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Job Details

Company
Lorien
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Salary
Salary negotiable
Posted