Automation Test Engineer – Public Sector & Accessibility

Scrumconnect Limited; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Limited in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, is seeking an automation-first Test Engineer to join agile teams building public sector digital services. You will design and maintain test frameworks with Playwright, focusing on accessibility and quality across APIs and cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities include integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub or GitLab), running functional, integration and performance tests, and applying risk-based test planning

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on test automation experience, ideally with Playwright.
• API testing with Rest Assured, Postman or similar tools.
• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines.
• QA methodologies, defect management and test planning.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Docker, Linux basics and cloud-native test environments.
• Experience working in agile delivery teams.
• Accessibility testing with tools such as Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse, JAWS, Dragon or ZoomText.
• UK government or GOV.UK service experience.
• Existing BPSS or SC clearance, or eligibility for SC.
• Performance testing with k6, JMeter or BlazeMeter.
• Monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana.
• Test tooling such as Jira, Xray, Zephyr, Azure DevOps, and Allure or Extent Reports.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks, with Playwright as the main tool.
• Automate API testing using Rest Assured, Postman and Swagger.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub or GitLab).
• Run functional, integration, end-to-end, regression and acceptance testing.
• Carry out accessibility testing to WCAG standards.
• Run performance testing, ideally with k6 (JMeter or BlazeMeter also used).
• Validate data using SQL and test event-driven systems such as Kafka and Azure Service Bus.
• Manage defects, plan tests using a risk-based approach and maintain traceability.

Skills

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

QA methodologies

SQL

Docker

Linux basics

Agile delivery

Accessibility testing

GOV.UK experience

SC clearance eligibility

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

Azure DevOps

Postman

Swagger

k6

JMeter

BlazeMeter

Grafana

Kibana

Allure

Extent Reports

Job description

Scrumconnect Limited in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, is seeking an automation-first Test Engineer to join agile teams building public sector digital services. You will design and maintain test frameworks with Playwright, focusing on accessibility and quality across APIs and cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities include integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub or GitLab), running functional, integration and performance tests, and applying risk-based test planning