Test Automation Engineer

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 21/05/2026

Develop, implement, and execute comprehensive test plans for  digital services. Identify key testing objectives and ensure coverage of user requirements across different environments.

• Conduct functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Perform non‑functional testing
  , including performance, security, and usability testing.

• Design and implement test automation frameworks using industry best practices.
• Automate API testing using tools such as Postman, Rest Assured, or equivalent.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing and deployment.
• Identify, document, and track defects using test management tools (Azure Dev Ops, JIRA).
• Work closely with development teams to resolve issues effectively.
• Produce detailed test reports and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Work in Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban), contributing to sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and business analysts to define test strategies.
• Provide guidance and mentor junior testers in automation best practices.

• Follow service design principles and DDAT frameworks for testing government applications.
• Ensure all tests align with security and compliance regulations
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• 6+ years of experience in test automation and software quality assurance
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• Hands‑on experience in automation testing frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress (for UI automation) and Rest Assured (BDD), Postman (for API testing).
• Experience developing test automation frameworks from scratch
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• Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and testing challenges.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI).
• Experience with SQL and relational database testing
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