Automation Test Engineer - up to £70,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Automation Test Engineer Salary: Up to £70,000 + Bonus + Benefits Location: Newcastle, London, Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool or Sheffield Working Hours: 40 hours per week

A globally recognised organisation is looking for an experienced Automation Test Engineer to help deliver secure, reliable and high-quality digital services across major public sector transformation programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Agile engineering teams building cloud native applications using modern test automation practices. The Automation Test Engineer will play a key role in embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle, working across UI, API, accessibility and performance testing while supporting continuous delivery at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities for the Automation Test Engineer

Design, develop and maintain scalable UI and API automation frameworks

Build automated test suites using Java, Selenium, REST Assured and Cucumber BDD

Develop and execute functional, regression, integration and end to end automated tests

Perform UI automation using Selenium WebDriver and Playwright

Carry out API testing using REST Assured, Postman and Swagger

Conduct accessibility testing to ensure compliance with WCAG standards

Support CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing throughout the development lifecycle

Work closely with developers, DevOps engineers, Business Analysts and Product Owners

Contribute to performance and load testing using K6

Support testing across AWS cloud environments and event driven architectures

Essential Skills for the Automation Test Engineer

Strong commercial experience with Java based test automation

Hands on experience with Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured, Playwright and Cucumber BDD

Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch

Strong knowledge of UI and API automation best practices

Experience testing REST APIs using Postman, Swagger and JSON/XML validation

Experience across the full software testing lifecycle

Knowledge of accessibility testing using tools such as WAVE, AXE DevTools and VoiceOver

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git and Maven

Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and Jira

Exposure to AWS cloud technologies and Kafka

Desirable Skills for the Automation Test Engineer

Experience testing cloud native and distributed systems

Knowledge of contract testing methodologies

Experience working within UK Public Sector or large enterprise environments

Performance testing experience using K6

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

If you are interested in this Automation Test Engineer vacancy, please apply in the immediate instance.

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