Lead Automation engineer

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Lead Test Automation Engineer / Test Automation Engineer / SC Clearance required

Permanent | Hybrid – London or Leeds | 50% onsite | SC Clearance

At Peregrine, we're always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.

The role

We are seeking experienced Test Automation Engineers and Senior Test Automation Engineers to join a large-scale technology environment, helping to develop and enhance automated testing capabilities across critical applications and services.

You will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining automated test solutions, working closely with developers, architects, analysts and wider technology teams to ensure high levels of quality and reliability.

Depending on experience, there will also be opportunities to take ownership of automation strategy, lead other automation engineers, contribute to performance testing strategy and drive improvements to testing frameworks, tooling and processes.

Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain robust automated test scripts and automation frameworks

Deliver automated testing across functional, system, integration, end-to-end, API and security testing

Develop and maintain API automation using tools such as Karate, Postman and SOAPUI

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows

Troubleshoot automation failures and identify opportunities to improve test coverage and reliability

Work closely with developers, architects, analysts and business stakeholders throughout the software delivery lifecycle

Contribute to the continuous improvement of automation frameworks, tooling and testing processes

Support performance testing and identify potential application bottlenecks

Work with cloud and containerised environments

Skills & Experience

Strong experience within Test Automation / Automation Testing / SDET environments

SC Clearance essential

Demonstrable experience designing, developing or maintaining test automation frameworks

Experience with automation tools such as Selenium and Karate

Strong API testing experience using tools such as Postman and SOAPUI

Programming or scripting experience using Java, Python and/or Java Script

Experience with Cucumber / BDD

Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies and techniques

Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins and Git Hub Actions

Experience with version control systems

Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure

Exposure to containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

Experience working within Agile software delivery environments

Experience across functional, integration, end-to-end, API and security testing

Experience with test data tools and test data management

Senior-level experience

For Senior Test Automation Engineer opportunities, we are particularly interested in candidates with:

Extensive hands-on test automation experience

Proven experience designing and implementing automation frameworks

Technical leadership, coaching or mentoring experience

Experience leading automation engineers or taking ownership of automation delivery

Performance testing experience using tools such as JMeter and Load Runner

Experience contributing to automation and performance testing strategy

Strong experience across complex, integrated enterprise systems

Desirable skills

Kafka, IBM MQ and/or ACE

Performance and security testing

Sonar Qube, Fortify, Twistlock or Xray

Oracle and SQL

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Knowledge of technologies including XML,…