Senior QA Automation Engineer; SDET — Clearance, Hybrid

Senior QA Automation / SDET Engineer (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)

Birmingham

6 Month Contract

£400-£450/day (Outside IR35)

Hands on Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) engineer needed with both SC and NPPV3 Security Clearance, plus strong hands-on experience with JUnit, Cucumber, and Selenium Web Driver.

6 Month Rolling Contract based in Birmingham. Start ASAP in May/June 2026.

Hybrid Working 3 days/week remote (WFH) + 2 days/week working from the office in Birmingham with occasional travel to Croydon.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects:

Key skills, experience + duties to include:

• Extensive hands-on experience with JUnit, Cucumber, and Selenium Web Driver within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Spring applications, microservices, and distributed architectures.
• Good understanding in PostgreSQL, including query optimisation, performance tuning, and data validation.
• Experience using Wire Mock for service virtualisation and integration isolation.
• Strong expertise in Performance, Load, and Stress testing using JMeter.
• Proven experience leading testing activities within Agile delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, and Git Lab CI.
• Ability to analyse complex systems, identify risks, and design effective test strategies.
• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and related engineering tools.
• Desirable Skills: Testing microservices at scale, including contract testing approaches. containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Understanding of BDD/TDD practices and quality driven engineering.
  
  Monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.