Automation Engineer (Back End)

Solirius Reply; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in London seeks experienced Automation Test Engineers/SDET to develop and deliver test solutions for clients. The role involves collaboration with teams, maintaining automated scripts, and ensuring quality standards. Flexibility for remote work is offered, but candidates should be open to travel to London as needed.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Structured training programme

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in test automation frameworks.
• Experience in API testing and Contract Testing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing development and maintenance of automated test scripts.
• Collaborating with teams to address automation challenges.

Skills

Excellent communication

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting skills

Collaboration skills

Tools

JavaScript

Java

RestAssured

SoapUI

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

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About Us:

Solirius Consulting delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs.

About Us:

Solirius Consulting delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; and we are actively working to expand on this.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

The Role:

We are looking for experienced Automation Test Engineers / SDET to work on projects with our clients from both the public and private sectors. You will have a testing background and be confident using your skills to run projects directly with clients with minimal supervision.

You will be a fundamental member of the team, responsible for designing, developing and delivering test solutions whilst supporting and developing other members of the team and fostering best practice, keeping up to date with industry standards and advances.

While most of our work can be done remotely, giving you the flexibility to work where you're most comfortable, we do expect all of our consultants to be open to travel as required by our clients, primarily to London. This role would therefore be best suited to those within a commutable distance of London.

Requirements

What you'll be doing:

• Overseeing all aspects of developing, implementing, and maintaining automated test scripts using automation tools
• As part of this role, you'll verify the usability, functionality, performance, and scalability of our and our clients applications
• Constructing automation tools and expanding framework functionalities to accommodate unique team requirements.
• Initiating and establishing processes for automation and performance monitoring
• Actively contributing to both our Quality Engineering teams and our clients in establishing Automation and Testing best practices for the organisation
• Collaborating with various teams to address their automation challenges and coordinating efforts with diverse teams to resolve performance test failures
  
  
  

Must have skills and experience:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Must have great analytical and troubleshooting skills as well as thrive in a dynamic work environment
• In depth understanding of QA process and software development life-cycle
• Hands-on experience of building test automation frameworks from scratch
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as JavaScript and Java (3+years).
• Experience of API testing, ideally using RestAssured or SoapUI
• Experience in the implementation of Contract Testing solutions.
• Familiarity with the configuration of CI/CD pipelines
• Expertise in establishing and executing testing tools, testing environments, and testing data throughout different stages of the testing process
• Experience of working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, and other QA team members, to design, develop and enhance automation frameworks
  
  
  

Experience in the following tools, technologies, environments (or similar):

• Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for testing microservices in a containerised environment
• Automated API testing with Java (e.g. RestAssured / SoapUI)
• Experience with Contract Testing tools (e.g., PACT)
• Experience using collaborative tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar for test case management, documentation, and communication within Agile/Scrum teams
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, including experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or other CI/CD tools for automated testing and deployment
• Understanding of testing microservices-based applications
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Understanding of Accessibility testing.
  
  
  

Benefits

What We Offer:

We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience, as well as an annual bonus and benefits package.

In addition, you will benefit from our structured training programme, alongside our ongoing development and varied project and client base, which will give you a broad set of skills and experiences to allow you to drive your career in the direction you choose.

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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