Test Automation Engineer: UI & API, CI/CD

Scrumconnect Limited; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development

Certification opportunities

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Scrumconnect Ltd is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, build and run automated tests for public sector digital services in an agile, multidisciplinary environment. You will work on UI and API automation using Selenium, Cypress or Playwright, and REST Assured, ensuring quality across microservices and APIs.

Responsibilities include planning performance, security and accessibility tests, integrating tests into CI/CD, and mentoring other testers.

Qualifications

• Hands-on test automation experience with programming (e.g., Java).
• Experience testing microservices with UI and API automation.
• Experience with BDD and Cucumber.
• Experience delivering services to the GDS Service Standard.
• Experience mentoring other testers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain automated tests for UI and APIs, using Selenium, Cypress or Playwright and REST Assured.
• Test micro services, including service interactions and contracts.
• Write behaviour-driven (BDD) tests using Cucumber that the whole team can read and trust.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines so tests run continuously.
• Plan and run performance, security and accessibility testing.
• Write clean, maintainable test code, and review other engineers' tests.
• Analyse results, raise defects with clear evidence and help track them to a fix.
• Work with developers, business analysts and product owners to define acceptance criteria and test coverage.
• Report on quality, test coverage and release risks.
• Share good test automation practice and support colleagues.

Skills

Test automation

UI automation

API automation

BDD/Cucumber

CI/CD

Performance testing

Security testing

Accessibility testing

Agile teams

Mentoring testers

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

REST Assured

JMeter

Gatling

OWASP ZAP

Job description

Scrumconnect Ltd is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to design, build and run automated tests for public sector digital services in an agile, multidisciplinary environment. You will work on UI and API automation using Selenium, Cypress or Playwright, and REST Assured, ensuring quality across microservices and APIs.

Responsibilities include planning performance, security and accessibility tests, integrating tests into CI/CD, and mentoring other testers.