Job Description
Automation Assurance Specialist – Consultant (Digital Excellence)
Salary: £50,000 – £55,000 plus benefits, perks, healthcare options!
Client: Global IT Consultancy
Location: Either London, Manchester or Glasgow Office (Hybrid working)
Role type: Permanent, full-time
Note: Unlimited Training Budget For Any External Certifications You Wish To Achieve!
The Role
We are seeking an Automation Assurance Specialist (Consultant level) to join a high-performing Digital Excellence team delivering complex, technology-led transformation programmes. You will play a critical role in assuring the quality, reliability and robustness of digital solutions across a wide range of client engagements. You will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining high-quality automated testing solutions, providing confidence that systems meet functional and non-functional requirements across accessibility, performance, security and integration. This role offers exposure to a wide variety of technologies and large-scale, technically challenging projects, working within multidisciplinary engineering teams in agile environments.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Deliver cross-functional engineering and assurance activities within small, collaborative teams
* Design, build and maintain clean, scalable and maintainable automation test suites
* Execute automated and manual testing across functional, integration and exploratory testing
* Embed test automation into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
* Assure technical delivery quality by working closely with engineers, designers and stakeholders
* Continuously improve testing practices, tools and processes
* Coach and mentor colleagues, sharing best practice and supporting team capability growth
* Contribute to innovation, inclusion, collaboration and self-organising team culture
* Support business development, internal initiatives and knowledge-sharing activities
Technology Exposure
You will gain experience across a broad technical landscape, including but not limited to:
* Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Kotlin
* Spring Boot and RESTful microservices
* Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, REST testing
* NoSQL databases
* Git-based version control systems
Your Profile
Essential experience:
* ISTQB Foundation certification (or equivalent experience)
* Strong experience in functional, integration, exploratory and manual testing
* Experience building and contributing to automation frameworks (Java or JavaScript)
* Hands-on experience with backend and frontend automated testing tools
* Experience working in agile delivery environments
* Confident using Git-based version control tools (GitHub, GitLab etc.)
* Ability to self-manage and proactively identify improvement areas
Desirable experience:
* Non-functional testing (Accessibility, Performance, Security)
* CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
* Docker for testing environments
* Maven for test execution
* Accessibility standards and test automation best practices
* Familiarity with the GOV.UK Design System
* Experience applying structured evaluation methods, including AI evaluations
Please “Apply” or contact Aaron Perdesi on 07441 920 857 to learn more!