eDV-Cleared Automation Test Engineer

IO Associates; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

iO are looking for an experienced AutomationTestEngineer with active eDV Clearance for a client in the National Security space. Location is London & Milton Keynes, on a 6‑month contract with a daily rate of £600–£675 outside IR35.

The role involves test automation across APIs, UIs and microservices, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and collaborating with security teams to automate security testing.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an AutomationTestEngineer, Software Development Engineer inTest(SDET), QA Automation Engineer or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience developing automatedtests using Python 3.13+.
• Experience testing containerised applications using Docker.
• Experience building and maintaining automatedtestframeworks such as PyTest, Playwright, Selenium or Robot Framework.
• Experience testing APIs, user interfaces, integration points and microservices.
• Experience integrating automatedtesting into GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience working alongside security teams to automate securitytesting within delivery pipelines.
• Familiarity with Git and requirements/testmanagement tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence orTestRail.

Skills

Automation testing

SDET

Python 3.13+

Docker

PyTest

Playwright

Selenium

Robot Framework

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

TestRail

eDV Clearance

Tools

Docker

PyTest

Playwright

Selenium

Robot Framework

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

TestRail

Job description

iO are looking for an experienced AutomationTestEngineer with active eDV Clearance for a client in the National Security space. Location is London & Milton Keynes, on a 6‑month contract with a daily rate of £600–£675 outside IR35.

The role involves test automation across APIs, UIs and microservices, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and collaborating with security teams to automate security testing.