Automation Test Engineer

Automation Test Engineer

Contract Length: 6 Months

Location: UK Wide (Remote with occasional in-person meetups)

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Overview

We are seeking experienced Automation Test Engineers to support a large-scale digital transformation programme. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a complex enterprise environment, contributing to the quality assurance and testing strategy across multiple interconnected systems and services.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing
• Proficiency with Playwright and/or Cypress for E2E test automation
• Hands-on experience testing services built with Kotlin and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of API testing, including calls to legacy systems and modern integration services
• Experience with integration resilience testing, including handling failures, timeouts, and degraded upstream dependencies
• Familiarity with contract testing tools such as PACT
• Experience working within environments containing multiple APIs and complex system interactions
• Ability to test cross-system state changes and data propagation across integrated platforms
• Experience with feature-flagged releases and testing behaviour across multiple feature flag states
• Ability to create and maintain smoke tests, regression test suites, and core user journey tests covering both happy and unhappy paths
• Experience testing data flows and validating data integrity across imports, exports, and synchronisation processes
• Knowledge of database technologies such as PostgreSQL and SQL, with experience testing data-driven features
• Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments and distributed system architectures
• Ability to test error handling, edge cases, and resilience to operational failure scenarios
• Familiarity with performance and load testing tools such as Gatling for both UI and API testing
• Experience supporting and coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities with operational stakeholders

Desirable Skills

• Experience with data migration testing, including data mapping, transformation, and validation

Working Arrangement

• Candidates can be based anywhere in the UK
• Predominantly remote working
• Occasional in-person collaboration sessions may be required