Test Automation Engineer - 6 month FTC

Job Description: The Test Automation Engineer role involves leading automation testing efforts within a high-profile Government body, focusing on web-based applications. The position requires collaboration with Agile development teams to enhance testing strategies and frameworks. Candidates should possess extensive experience in automation testing, particularly with tools like Playwright and C#.Net, and be adept at integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines. This is a 6-month fixed-term contract based in Brighton with a hybrid working arrangement.

Key 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 languages.

Skills Required:

• 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.

Salary (Rate): £62,000.00 yearly

City: Brighton

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: fixed-term

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT