Senior Automaton Tester

Automation Tester – SC – hybrid Manchester or Newcastle Upon Tyne – 6 months - c £520pday Umbrella)
Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Automation Tester to work on a hybrid basis (3 days p/wk) in either Manchester or Newcastle upon Tyne.

You will have current SC clearance ideally or eligible to go through SC clearance.

At this role level, you will:

• work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level

• collaborate with analysts to ensure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test scripts

• work on both functional and non-functional areas of an application

• coach and mentor testers

• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the organisation to coordinate test coverage and schedules

Essential technologies:

• Java and Spring Framework

• Cucumber for BDD testing

• REST APIs

beneficial to be familiar with the following technologies:

• Wiremock

• Maven

• AWS Stack, including secure cloud testing

• Automation Testing (Selenium / JMeter / K6)

• REST Client (Postman / Insomnia)

• Git Lab CI

• Java (to code Cucumber steps in test framework)

• Container environments (e.g., Kubernetes)