Job Description

Job Title: Automation Test Engineer - SC
Location: National
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Daily Rate: £600/day (Umbrella – Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside
Security Clearance: SC

Minimum Requirement:

• Strong experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks for UI, API, and end to end testing
• Proficiency with Playwright and/or Cypress for E2E test automation
• Hands on experience testing services built with Kotlin and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of API testing, including calls to legacy systems and modern integration services
• Experience with integration resilience testing (handling failures, timeouts, and degraded upstream dependencies)
• Familiarity with contract testing (e.g., PACT)
• Experience working in environments with multiple APIs and complex system interactions
• Ability to test cross system state changes, especially where updates propagate across systems (e.g., OASys, nDelius)
• Experience with featureflagged releases and testing behaviour under multiple featureflag states
• Ability to create and maintain smoke tests, regression tests, and core user journey tests (happy/unhappy paths)
• Experience in testing data flows, including verifying data integrity across imports, exports, and sync processes
• Understanding of data migration testing (data mapping, transformation, and validation) — nice to have
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g., Postgres, SQL) and how to test data driven features
• Experience with enterprise level testing and large, distributed system architectures
• Ability to test error handling, edge cases, and resilience to operational failure modes
• Familiarity with performance and load testing tools (e.g., Gatling) for both UI and API layers
• Experience managing and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with operational teams

Security Clearance: SC

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181