Test Automation Engineer - 6 month FTC

ZipRecruiter; England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-profile government body seeks a Test Automation Engineer for a 6-month contract based in Brighton. The role involves leading the automation effort, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and working closely with Agile teams to enhance testing methodologies. Candidates should have extensive experience with automated testing tools and frameworks, particularly Playwright and C#.Net, and be capable of developing sophisticated test strategies.

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.
• Develop the automation testing framework from scratch.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Playwright

ReqnRoll / Specflow

Selenium

TDD

SQL Server

C#.Net

Automated Testing

Dynamics 365

Job description

Job Description

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 .

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.