Lead Test Engineer - Microservices - Java - SC CLeared

Lead Test Engineer - Inside IR35 - £600 to £640 per day via umbrella - 12-month contract - SC Clearance is essential

Experience in driving or supporting transformation from monolithic systems to distributed microservices architectures in Java, is essential.

• Start date - 25/05/2026 is essential
• Leeds or Manchester based - in the office not home based

• Strong experience designing and implementing test strategies for microservices environments
• Hands-on automation experience using Java, Selenium, Rest Assured
• API, contract, and integration testing
• Experience working with monolith and microservices systems is essential

• CI/CD pipelines
• Spring Boot-based applications
• Performance testing fundamentals

• Contract testing, API testing, and asynchronous messaging (e.g. Kafka)
• Non-functional testing (performance, accessibility)
• Experience with non-relational databases (e.g. Mongo
  
  DB)
• Automation-first mindset with ability to build reusable, maintainable frameworks

• Experience operating at Lead / Principal level
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

• Cloud: AWS
• Test Frameworks:
  Selenium, Serenity BDD, Playwright
• Contract Testing:
  Pactflow, Spring Cloud Contract
• Messaging:
  Kafka
• Databases:
  MongoDB
• CI/CD & Dev Ops:
  Git Hub, Git Lab, Jenkins, Docker
• Performance Testing:
  Gatling, K6
• Observability:
  Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk

• A hands-on technical leader who can set direction and deliver
• Someone comfortable working across multiple teams and scaling best practice
• A proactive problem-solver with a strong quality-first mindset

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