Test Engineer

ISR Recruitment; United States; Remote; GBP 73,800 - 78,412; Part time

Job summary

A leading digital recruitment firm in the UK is seeking a Digital Recruitment Specialist for a 6-month contract offering £400 to £425 per day. This fully remote position requires strong skills in Ruby, Selenium, and various testing methodologies for government digital services. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance accessibility, security, and performance in digital services, contributing significantly to innovative technical solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Ruby, Selenium, and API testing.
• Experience in accessibility and security testing.
• Comfortable working in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Consulting on digital services with real user impact.
• Performing accessibility and security testing.
• Collaborating within Agile delivery teams to improve testing practices.

Skills

Ruby

Selenium

API testing

Accessibility testing

Security testing

Version control using Git

Agile delivery

Performance testing

GOV‑UK Design System

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Base pay range

Direct message the job poster from ISR Recruitment

Digital Recruitment Specialist | GDS | Digital First | Discovery | Alpha | Beta | Live

• 6-month contract
• £400 to £425 per day (Outside-IR35)
• 100% Remote Working

The Opportunity:

We are currently seeking an experienced GDS Test Engineer with proven experience consulting as a Test Engineer on modern web-based services for the Government Digital Services platform.

You will be joining a delivery team working on high-quality, user-centred digital services, where you will work closely with developers, product owners and delivery colleagues to ensure services are robust, accessible, secure and performant.

This role will suit someone with strong automation, API testing, accessibility and security testing experience, who is comfortable working in an Agile environment.

Skills and Experience:

Strong hands‑on experience with:

• Ruby
• Selenium
• API testing (REST, Postman/Newman)
• Accessibility testing (WAVE, Pa11y)
• Security testing (OWASP ZAP, Dependency Check)
• Strong understanding of version control using Git
• Comfortable working in Agile delivery environments
• Performance testing using JMeter or BlazeMeter
• Experience working with the GOV‑UK Design System and assuring compliance with design standards
• Experience configuring or contributing to CI/CD pipelines for automated testing

Role and Responsibilities:

• You will be consulting on meaningful digital services with real user impact, collaborating with experienced, multi‑disciplinary delivery teams.
• A culture that values quality, accessibility and security as first‑class concerns where you will have the opportunity to influence and improve testing practices across delivery.
• Performing accessibility testing using tools such as WAVE and Pa11y and conducting security testing using OWASP ZAP and Dependency Check.
• Collaborating effectively within Agile delivery teams, contributing to continuous improvement of testing practices whilst maintaining test code, documentation and version control using Git, GitHub or GitLab.

Applications:

Please contact Edward here at ISR Recruitment to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology, Consulting, and Other
• Industries: IT System Testing and Evaluation, IT Services and IT Consulting, and IT System Design Services