QA Engineer (DV cleared)

Salt Search; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Search in the United Kingdom is seeking a DV Cleared QA Engineer with strong automation experience to work on mission-critical systems. You'll be hands-on, writing and maintaining automated tests, testing APIs and integrations, and helping engineering teams build quality in from the start.

This role is on-site five days a week at Cheltenham, London, Manchester or Ipswich; rates depend on experience and client requirements.

Qualifications

• Solid commercial QA/testing experience.
• Strong test automation skills.
• Experience with tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured or similar.
• Good understanding of CI/CD and modern testing practices.
• A curious, hands-on approach to problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites.
• Functional, integration and regression testing.
• API and end-to-end testing.
• Working with CI/CD pipelines and development teams.
• Investigating issues and driving defects through to resolution.
• Improving testing processes, tooling and automation.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

API testing

QA experience

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

Job description

Candidates MUST have active, current and valid DV clearance - nothing less

DV Cleared, QA Engineer, Automation, On Site 5 days a week at any of the following location; Cheltenham, London, Manchester or Ipswich.

A global firm are looking for a DV Cleared QA Engineer with strong automation experience to work on technology that supports some of the UK's most critical services.

You'll be hands-on - writing and maintaining automated tests, testing APIs and integrations, investigating defects and helping engineering teams build quality in from the start.

You'll be doing things like:

• Building and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites
• Functional, integration and regression testing
• API and end-to-end testing
• Working with CI/CD pipelines and development teams
• Investigating issues and driving defects through to resolution
• Improving testing processes, tooling and automation

You'll bring:

• Active/ current valid DV clearance
• Solid commercial QA/testing experience
• Strong test automation skills
• Experience with tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured or similar
• Good understanding of CI/CD and modern testing practices
• A curious, hands-on approach to problem solving

Experience in secure, regulated or mission-critical environments is a bonus, not a must.

If you enjoy breaking things, automating the boring stuff and making sure technology works when it really matters, we'd like to hear from you.

DV Cleared, QA Engineer, Automation, On Site 5 days a week at any of the following location; London, Manchester, Ipswich or Cheltenham.

Rates depend on experience and client requirements