Automation Tester 16-month FTC

Automation Tester

• Job Type: Fixed Term Contract (16 months)
• Location: Newport (hybrid, 20% of your working days a month in-office)
• Salary: £36,736 - £46,743

Our client is seeking an Automation Tester to join their dynamic team. This role involves writing, executing, and maintaining both functional and non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting robust, scalable, and reusable solutions that deliver an exceptional user experience, aligned with DevOps best practices.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Write, execute, and maintain automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment.
• Design, code, test, maintain, and document solutions that enhance user experience using DevOps best practices.
• Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluate findings, and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with software developers to understand the code base and ensure adequate test coverage at the unit level.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver user-focused and successful digital services, ensuring adherence to governance standards.
• Identify defects, incidents, risks, and issues in accordance with IPO standards.
• Explore innovative ways to solve problems, adopting a fail-fast approach to deliver required functionality.
• Mentor colleagues in automation/test standards and business processes following agreed governance and best practices.
• Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for integration, performance optimisation, security, and scalability.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in delivering technical solutions.
• Familiarity with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile.
• Understanding of DevOps principles.
• Strong knowledge of mainstream testing frameworks/libraries such as Selenium WebDriver, BDD SpecFlow, and RestSharp.
• Experience in a mainstream development language.
• Proficiency in Web Services, REST.
• Ability to write SQL statements.