Test Automation Engineer

Advanced Resource Managers; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers seeks an experienced QA Automation Engineer to design and own scalable automation frameworks for web UI and API testing. You will translate user stories into Gherkin features, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and automate REST API testing with Postman/Newman and REST Assured.

Expect collaboration with Product Owners, BAs, and cloud deployments in AWS environments. You will drive test data strategies, investigate flaky tests, and report quality metrics to

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of functional, regression, integration, smoke, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with Git and working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Proven experience writing BDD scenarios in Gherkin and implementing Cucumber step definitions, hooks, and scenario outlines.
• Experience managing test cases, test runs, and results reporting in TestRail, including traceability back to requirements.
• Practical experience testing in and integrating with AWS environments (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), including running automated suites against cloud deployments.
• Docker and Kubernetes for containerised test execution.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own scalable automation frameworks for web UI and API testing.
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into clear Gherkin feature files in collaboration with Product Owners and BAs
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps) as quality gates on every build and pull request
• Automate REST API testing using tools such as Postman/Newman or REST Assured, covering authentication, payload validation, and negative cases
• Validate back-end data with SQL to confirm UI and API results match the system of record
• Investigate and eliminate flaky tests through root-cause analysis rather than retries
• Manage test data strategies that keep runs repeatable and isolated across environments
• Triage, document, and track defects through to resolution, and report quality metrics and release readiness to stakeholders

Skills

Gherkin BDD

Git

Agile/Scrum

Automation testing

CI/CD testing

REST API testing

AWS testing

Docker & Kubernetes

Tools

Postman

Newman

REST Assured

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Job description

Please note that, due to the nature of the work, you will need a high level of UK security clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and own scalable automation frameworks for web UI and API testing
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into clear Gherkin feature files in collaboration with Product Owners and BAs
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps) as quality gates on every build and pull request
• Automate REST API testing using tools such as Postman/Newman or REST Assured, covering authentication, payload validation, and negative cases
• Validate back-end data with SQL to confirm UI and API results match the system of record
• Investigate and eliminate flaky tests through root-cause analysis rather than retries
• Manage test data strategies that keep runs repeatable and isolated across environments
• Triage, document, and track defects through to resolution, and report quality metrics and release readiness to stakeholders

Essential Skills and Experience

• Solid understanding of functional, regression, integration, smoke, and end-to-end testing
• Experience with Git and working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Proven experience writing BDD scenarios in Gherkin and implementing Cucumber step definitions, hooks, and scenario outlines
• Experience managing test cases, test runs, and results reporting in TestRail, including traceability back to requirements
• Practical experience testing in and integrating with AWS environments (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), including running automated suites against cloud deployments

Desired Skills

• Docker and Kubernetes for containerised test execution