Senior Test Engineer - National Security

CACI; Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software consultancy in the UK seeks a Senior Test Engineer to join their National Security Team. This role involves ensuring continuous automated testing within their agile delivery teams. Responsibilities include designing and implementing automated test frameworks and contributing to improvements in QA processes. Candidates should be passionate about manual and automation testing and have experience in Agile methodologies. Security clearance is preferred; applicants must have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.

Benefits

Up to 5 days external training

Career coach

Inclusive work environment

Self-directed career progression

Qualifications

• Experience with manual and automated software testing on complex solutions.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment and autonomously.
• Passion for continuous improvement and learning new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuous automated testing as part of CI/CD lifecycle.
• Design and implement automated test frameworks.
• Contribute to the QA team, suggesting improvements to processes.

Skills

Manual & Automation testing

Agile methodologies

Selenium

Cypress.io

Webdriver.io

Cucumber

Robot Framework

Rest Assured

Job description

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will join one of our small, fast-paced, agile delivery teams. Working on one of our inflight projects, you will play a key role to ensure continuous automated testing is implemented, early and often, as a part of a CI/CD lifecycle. Testing at IIG consists of a wide range of responsibilities, the list below gives a flavour of some of the tasks you may be asked to undertake;

• Use a wide range of technologies, specialising in the use of open source Tools and Frameworks.
• Manual & Automation software testing
• Working with DevOps and agile methodologies - TDD, BDD, ATDD and continuous testing through CI/CD pipelines and supported by manual/exploratory testing skills where required.
• Design and Implementation of Automated Test Frameworks across UI & API.
• Typically, we use a range of technologies including Selenium, Cypress.io, Webdriver.io, Playwright, Cucumber, Robot Framework, Serenity BDD & Rest Assured.
• Contributing to the wider QA team, bringing forward new ideas and taking accountability for improvements to the test framework and processes.
• Non-Functional testing as required using a wide variety of test tools across, Security, Performance, Accessibility and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT).

  Our Test Engineers enjoy working on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, so we want our team to have a proactive and can-do attitude to our work. We pride ourselves on keeping up with emerging technologies and deliver best-practice, so it is important that you enjoy learning and continuous improvement.

• We are looking for experienced Test Engineers with a passion for Manual & Automation and a background of working with a range of complex solutions.
• You will be comfortable working as part of an Agile team, working autonomously and instilling best practice into an Agile working environment.

Due to nature of the sector this role would prefer applicants to hold high level security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British passport holder and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.

We are the Information Intelligence Group (IIG) of CACI UK, a specialist software consultancy providing new bespoke solutions to solve our customers complex operational problems. As our business continues to grow, we are interested in speaking with an experienced Senior Test Engineer to join one of our live projects in our National Security Team. At IIG, there's no such thing as a typical solution - we're looking for talent that can keep up with our clients' challenges, and set the pace for new ideation. We value intelligence and fast learners, flexibility and excitement about tackling every new opportunity. Our work is highly collaborative, so friendly relationship builders are vital to our teams.

We take great pride in taking care of our talent, providing a highly dynamic, inclusive and team-led environment where everyone can thrive. We value every member of our business, and strive to be a place you're excited to work. IIG has the culture and feel of a small business, paired with the benefits of our position in a much larger organisation. We offer a great L&D package including up to 5 days external training, a career coach and guilds to share innovation and learning. We also offer self-directed career progression, that fosters opportunities for success for us and our business. CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, sex, gender identity, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.

• Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on to discuss individual requirements further).
• Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.
• Our people are unique and we encourage, and support them, to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.