Location: Sheffield Job Type: Contract Industry: Cloud & Infrastructure Job reference: BBBH429053_1764954039 Posted: 2 days ago
Role Title: Lead Automation Test Engineer
Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026
Location: Sheffield, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite
Rate: up to £482.30 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
This role is predominantly required to fulfil the role of Automation test lead, with occasional manual testing where required Solid experience of at least 5 years in the use of automation tooling and framework creation especially with Java and SQL
1. Excellent verbal and written communications skills and stakeholder engagement at all levels
2. Able to develop and execute test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related plans and documentation based on the requirements and technical specifications
3. Plan, develop, execute, maintain and improve Automated Test Frameworks and Automated Test Scripts for Web and Database applications
4. Proven experience in writing automated test scripts using JavaScript
5. Experience of using automation tools such as Selenium web driver IO (WDIO) / Cucumber etc, Selenium for UI testing and RestAssured for API testing
6. Experience of test tool selection/recommendations based on assessment of the environment/landscape.
7. Experience in defining a comprehensive performance test strategy that fully defines the approach, environment, scope, risks and resources required.
8. Experience of delivering within both an Agile and Waterfall methodology.
9. Jenkins pipeline creation and management for running automated tests, generating reports and notifying team about test results to streamline the CI/CD process.
10. Web UI Testing
11. Database comparison test experience
12. Experience testing in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali Cloud
13. Extensive experience using JIRA and Xephyr tooling
14. Accurately report and track testing related defects and issues, by writing or automating, effective and thorough bug reports, attend triage meetings and verify bug fixes
15. Identify process and application issues and provide suggestions to improve
16. Learn new technologies and adapt to them as needed
17. Identify and deploy automation solutions based on changing project needs
18. Strong manual test execution experience
19. Identification and collating test entry and exit criteria
20. Good experience of executing defined test plans including coordination, tracking and reporting
21. Positive team player working as part of the overall test team, both manual and automated
22. Test case review/QA for coverage and traceability to requirements/design
23. Liaison with business areas/technical leads re SIT/OAT/UAT scenario definitions as required
24. Analysis of design and other documents for testability
25. Previous experience within Identity and Access Management- preferable
26. Any exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ, Identity warehousing, and working with protocols and formats for data ingestion such as SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC and CSV
27. Experience of testing graph database management systems (GDBMS)
28. ServiceNow, AD, AWS, Azure integrations
29. Testing functions and decision points ??As Code??, such as Policy as code
30. Experience of GitOps Repos
31. API Testing, API Gateway testing, Batch ETL testing
32. Team Leadership & Management - Proven ability to lead, mentor, and manage other engineers within the team
33. DevOps & CI/CD Integration - Ability to integrate automation tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines and implement shift-left testing practices
34. Pub Sub and MQ
35. GCP (Cloud) testing approaches and methodology.
36. SaaS Testing
37. Process Improvement - Establish performance testing standards, best practices, and governance frameworks across the organization
Skill set ideally including several of:
38. Java, Cypher, Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET, Go, SQL Server, MySQL
39. API
40. QMetry
41. Test Rail
42. BDD/TDD
43. Jenkins
44. Postman
45. Insomnia
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!