Test Automation Engineer - 6 month FTC

DATA+; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A major government body is seeking a Test Automation Engineer for a 6-month fixed-term contract, focused on delivering automation testing for critical projects. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid environment, leveraging tools like Playwright and SQL Server, and will play a vital role in designing automated test scripts and improving testing strategies.

Benefits

Bonus

Excellent Pension

Employee Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years automation and manual testing experience of web-based applications.
• Knowledge of Playwright and ReqnRoll / Specflow.
• Experienced in C#.Net and SQL Server.

Responsibilities

• Lead and peer-review the work of other test team members.
• Design and develop automated test scripts focusing on data validation.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Playwright

ReqnRoll / Specflow

Selenium

TDD

SQL Server

C#.Net

Automated Testing

Dynamics 365

Job description

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Base pay range

Test Automation Engineer


Location: Hybrid / Brighton (1-2 days a week in Brighton)


Salary: £55,000 - £62,000 (plus bonus, Excellent Pension and Employee Benefits)

6 month Fixed Term Contract

Skills: Playwright or ReqnRoll / Specflow, Selenium, TDD, SQL Server, C#.Net, Automated Testing, Dynamics 365

Join a busy and successful Test Team, working alongside Agile Dev Teams to deliver on a range of important projects. Our Client is a high profile Government body that provides essential services to protect peoples savings in the UK. If you are an experienced Automation Tester who can prioritise and a natural problem solver with a 'can-do' approach please get in touch!

Responsibilities

Lead and peer-review the work of other test team members. Lead on investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.

Input into the test strategy team and advise on automation testing with recommendations for improvement

From scratch, develop the product and development teams' approach to testing - e.g. a framework for test driven development

Design and develop automated test scripts with a focus on SQL-based data validation, ensuring the accuracy of data flows and transformation.

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Be the person on-point and overall responsible for the automation testing delivery within the Platform team.

Demonstrate knowledge of emerging tools and techniques.

Effectively work across different tools and software languages.Essential

5+ years automation and manual testing experience of web-based applications.

Playwright and ReqnRoll / Specflow knowledge and experience

Experienced in C#.Net and SQL Server.

Experience crafting automation tests and demonstrating test frameworks and pipelines, collaborating in any of the following: RESTful services, Message Queues, Relational Databases.

Experience of SQL scripting and proven capability of writing sophisticated queries to analyse problems, and interrogate data pipelines

Experience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development/implementation

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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