Contract Tester/QA Engineer IRC303168

GlobalLogic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalLogic is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer for a minimum 6-month assignment inside IR35 in the United Kingdom. The role requires strong communication skills and the ability to elicit clear acceptance criteria and ensure testability across complex projects.

You will lead end-to-end and automation testing using Playwright, K6, and Karate for UI and API layers, with knowledge of Kafka and event-based architectures. Prior experience in financial services is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills to explain complex concepts to non-technical colleagues.
• Ability to elicit acceptance criteria and identify gaps for testability.
• Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using modern tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end and automation testing across UI and API layers using Playwright, K6, Karate.
• Work with Kafka and event-based systems; understanding distributed cloud-native environments.
• Experience in financial services domain; communicate findings to stakeholders.

Skills

Communication

Acceptance criteria

Test planning

End-to-end testing

Tools

Playwright

K6

Karate

Kafka

Job description

We partner with leading Financial Services organizations to deliver large-scale digital transformation, cloud, data, AI, and platform modernization initiatives across global delivery models.

We are seeking to hire a new team and require an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer for minimum 6months assignment, inside IR35. To start asap.

Requirements

Excellent communication skills are required with ability to communicate complex technical concepts to less technical colleagues. You will be able to help elicit acceptance criteria for the outcomes, identifying gaps in requirements and ensuring testability.

Job responsibilities

You will be an experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with a strong track record in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools:- Playwright, K6, Karate covering UI, and API/service level testing (e.g. REST, messaging, contract testing).

A working knowledge of Kafka and both orchestrated/choreographed event based systems is a plus.

Experience working in a distributed, cloud-native environment with complex failure modes requiring a different approach to assurance required. In addition your background will be in the financial services and banking domain.

What we offer

Our goal is to build an inclusive positive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves, empowering people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences – providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career. Our region supports a hybrid model that can flex across a wide spectrum of working options determined by business, customer and individual needs.

You’ll benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plan, private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing), discounted gym memberships, and in office yoga sessions and massages. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme and recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives. Colleagues are entitled to an annual volunteering day – so you can take time to support a cause close to your heart. We also love to stay social with trips to the zoo, quiz nights, sports events, theatre trips and much more.

We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and we actively welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for this vacancy.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments. If you require any adjustments for the application process, the interview, or the job itself, or if you need this information in an accessible format, please contact [e-mail] .

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.