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