URGENT: QA Automation Engineer (Java / Selenium / Cucumber) | £340/day Inside IR35 | Mostly Remote | BPSS

Areti Group | B Corp™; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Areti Group | B Corp™ is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join a major UK public sector programme. You will build and scale end-to-end automation suites using Java, Selenium, and Cucumber, and validate APIs and data in a CI/CD-enabled environment.

You’ll work mostly remotely with occasional travel to Newcastle at most once per sprint, testing services hosted on AWS/Azure and contributing to code quality through SonarQube and security scanning.

Qualifications

• Proven commercial experience with Java, Selenium and Cucumber.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Public sector or regulated environments experience is a bonus.
• Minimal travel supports work-life balance.
• BPSS clearance is preferred; no long clearance wait.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale large end-to-end automation suites with Selenium WebDriver and Java.
• Automate API tests with REST Assured and explore APIs with Postman.
• Validate data at source with SQL and database testing.
• Run automated regression in Jenkins or GitLab CI pipelines.
• Raise code quality with SonarQube and perform dependency and security scanning.
• Test services hosted on AWS and Azure.

Skills

Java

Selenium

Cucumber

Automation testing

CI/CD integration

Tools

REST Assured

Postman

SQL

Jenkins

GitLab CI

SonarQube

AWS

Azure

Job description

Do you build automation suites the rest of the team relies on? We need someone who’s at their best with Java, Selenium and Cucumber in a CI pipeline.

We’re looking for a QA Automation Engineer for a major UK public sector programme. The services you test are used by millions of people every day, so your work will have a real impact.

The essentials

• Location: Mostly remote, with travel to Newcastle at most once per sprint

What you’ll be doing

• Building and scaling large end-to-end automation suites with Selenium WebDriver and Java
• Automating API tests with REST Assured and exploring APIs with Postman
• Validating data at source with SQL and database testing
• Running automated regression in Jenkins or GitLab CI pipelines, so problems are caught before they ship
• Raising code quality with SonarQube and dependency and security scanning
• Testing services hosted on AWS and Azure

You’ll stand out if you have

• Proven commercial experience with Java, Selenium and Cucumber. This is the core of the role
• Experience making automated tests part of CI/CD, not something run separately afterwards
• Public sector or other regulated-environment experience (a bonus, not essential)
• Very little travel, so a good work/life balance
• Work on services that people across the UK depend on
• BPSS only, so no long security clearance wait before you start

This role is moving fast. If it sounds like you, don’t wait.