Automation Assurance Specialist

Location: Farringdon

We are seeking an Automation Assurance Specialist (Consultant) to join a high-performing Digital Excellence team delivering complex, technology-led transformation programmes. You will play a critical role in assuring the quality, reliability and robustness of digital solutions across a wide range of client engagements.

Automation Assurance Specialist - Consultant (Digital Excellence)

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 plus benefits, perks, healthcare options!
Client:
Global IT Consultancy

Location:

Either London, Manchester or Glasgow Office (Hybrid working)
Role type:
Permanent, full-time

Note:

Unlimited Training Budget For Any External Certifications You Wish To Achieve!

The Role

We are seeking an Automation Assurance Specialist (Consultant level) to join a high-performing Digital Excellence team delivering complex, technology-led transformation programmes. You will play a critical role in assuring the quality, reliability and robustness of digital solutions across a wide range of client engagements.

You will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining high-quality automated testing solutions, providing confidence that systems meet functional and non-functional requirements across accessibility, performance, security and integration.

This role offers exposure to a wide variety of technologies and large-scale, technically challenging projects, working within multidisciplinary engineering teams in agile environments.

What You'll Be Doing

Deliver cross-functional engineering and assurance activities within small, collaborative teams
Design, build and maintain clean, scalable and maintainable automation test suites
Execute automated and manual testing across functional, integration and exploratory testing
Embed test automation into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
Assure technical delivery quality by working closely with engineers, designers and stakeholders
Continuously improve testing practices, tools and processes
Coach and mentor colleagues, sharing best practice and supporting team capability growth
Contribute to innovation, inclusion, collaboration and self-organising team culture
Support business development, internal initiatives and knowledge-sharing activities

Technology Exposure

You will gain experience across a broad technical landscape, including but not limited to:

Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Kotlin
Spring Boot and RESTful microservices
Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, REST testing
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SQL databases
Git-based version control systems

Your Profile

Essential experience:

ISTQB Foundation certification (or equivalent experience)
Strong experience in functional, integration, exploratory and manual testing
Experience building and contributing to automation frameworks (Java or JavaScript)
Hands-on experience with backend and frontend automated testing tools
Experience working in agile delivery environments
Confident using Git-based version control tools (Git Hub, Git Lab etc.)
Ability to self-manage and proactively identify improvement areas

Desirable experience:

Non-functional testing (Accessibility, Performance, Security)
CI/CD tooling (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins)
Docker for testing environments
Maven for test execution
Accessibility standards and test automation best practices
Familiarity with the (url removed) Design System
Experience applying structured evaluation methods, including AI evaluations

Please "Apply" or contact Aaron Perdesi on (phone number removed) to learn more