Job Description
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.