Remote QA Automation Engineer — Java, Selenium & CI

Areti Group | B Corp™; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Areti Group | B Corp™ is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a major UK public sector programme. You will build and scale end-to-end automation suites using Java, Selenium, and Cucumber, and validate APIs and data in a CI/CD-enabled environment.

You’ll work mostly remotely with occasional travel to Newcastle at most once per sprint, testing services hosted on AWS/Azure and contributing to code quality through SonarQube and security scanning.

Qualifications

• Proven commercial experience with Java, Selenium and Cucumber.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Public sector or regulated environments experience is a bonus.
• Minimal travel supports work-life balance.
• BPSS clearance is preferred; no long clearance wait.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale large end-to-end automation suites with Selenium WebDriver and Java.
• Automate API tests with REST Assured and explore APIs with Postman.
• Validate data at source with SQL and database testing.
• Run automated regression in Jenkins or GitLab CI pipelines.
• Raise code quality with SonarQube and perform dependency and security scanning.
• Test services hosted on AWS and Azure.

Skills

Java

Selenium

Cucumber

Automation testing

CI/CD integration

Tools

REST Assured

Postman

SQL

Jenkins

GitLab CI

SonarQube

AWS

Azure

Job description

Areti Group | B Corp™ is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a major UK public sector programme. You will build and scale end-to-end automation suites using Java, Selenium, and Cucumber, and validate APIs and data in a CI/CD-enabled environment.

You’ll work mostly remotely with occasional travel to Newcastle at most once per sprint, testing services hosted on AWS/Azure and contributing to code quality through SonarQube and security scanning.