SC Cleared Automation Test Engineer Contract NEW

Role: SC Cleared Automation Test Engineer
Length: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid – Based from one of 9 National Hubs
Rate: Market Rates (Inside IR35)

Skills Require:

• 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 feature flagged 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

Candidates can be based from one of the following offices: Croydon, Birmingham, Wakefield, London, Lincoln, Nottingham, York or Plymouth.