QA Automation Engineer: Java APIs & CI/CD for Public Sector

Methods Business And Digital Technology; England; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning access

Wellness programme 24/7 support

Pension Salary Exchange (employer 4%,

Discretionary company bonus

Life Assurance 4x base salary

Private Medical Insurance

Worldwide Travel Insurance

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Methods is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a multidisciplinary team building and validating automated tests for complex digital services. You’ll design, implement and maintain API, integration and end-to-end tests using Java-based frameworks, ensuring reliability and coverage across distributed systems.

You’ll collaborate with developers, DevOps, analysts and product owners to verify business processes, identify risks and improve test suites, including test data, environments and

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Java programming with automated test code.
• Experience with Serenity BDD, Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver and REST Assured.
• Knowledge of HTTP/REST APIs, JSON, authentication and error handling.
• Experience testing distributed or microservice-based apps, incl. asynchronous processing.
• Ability to verify business workflows across services and data persistence.
• Proficiency with SQL and application logs for test data and failures.
• Experience using Maven, Git, PRs and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps YAML pipelines or similar CI/CD.
• Understanding of test isolation, parallel execution and flaky tests.
• Experience in Agile teams and writing testable acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated API, integration and end-to-end tests.
• Contribute to reusable test components and maintainable automation frameworks.
• Define testable acceptance criteria with product owners and analysts.
• Determine appropriate testing level per risk to balance coverage and time.
• Integrate automated tests into Azure DevOps pipelines; provide feedback.
• Test asynchronous workflows and inter-service interactions; verify outcomes.
• Create repeatable test data; manage environment dependencies and isolation.
• Investigate failures using logs, API responses and DB queries.
• Improve suite reliability by reducing flaky tests and gaps in coverage.
• Communicate progress, risks and coverage to stakeholders.

Skills

Java

API testing

HTTP/REST

Agile teamwork

Test planning

Tools

Serenity BDD

Cucumber

Selenium WebDriver

REST Assured

JUnit

AssertJ

Maven

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Methods is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a multidisciplinary team building and validating automated tests for complex digital services. You’ll design, implement and maintain API, integration and end-to-end tests using Java-based frameworks, ensuring reliability and coverage across distributed systems.

You’ll collaborate with developers, DevOps, analysts and product owners to verify business processes, identify risks and improve test suites, including test data, environments and