Automation Test Engineer CGEMJP

Role

Title:

Automation Test Developer

Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026

Location: Sheffield, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite

Rate: up to £383.03 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

This role is predominantly required to fulfil the role of Automation test engineer, with occasional manual testing where required Solid experience of at least 3 years in the use of automation tooling and framework creation especially with Java and SQL

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and stakeholder engagement at all levels
• Able to develop and execute test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related plans and documentation based on the requirements and technical specifications
• Plan, develop, execute, maintain and improve Automated Test Frameworks and Automated Test Scripts for Web and Database applications
• Proven experience in writing automated test scripts using Java Script
• Experience of using automation tools such as Selenium web driver IO (WDIO) / Cucumber etc, Selenium for UI testing and Rest Assured for API testing
• Jenkins pipeline creation and management for running automated tests, generating reports and notifying team about test results to streamline the CI/CD process.
• Web UI Testing
• Database comparison test experience
• Experience testing in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali Cloud
• Solid experience using JIRA and Xephyr tooling
• Accurately report and track testing related defects and issues, by writing or automating, effective and thorough bug reports, attend triage meetings and verify bug fixes
• Identify process and application issues and provide suggestions to improve
• Learn new technologies and adapt to them as needed
• Identify and deploy automation solutions based on changing project needs
• Strong manual test execution experience
• Identification and collating test entry and exit criteria
• Good experience of executing defined test plans including coordination, tracking and reporting
• Positive team player working as part of the overall test team, both manual and automated
• Test case review/QA for coverage and traceability to requirements/design
• Liaison with business areas/technical leads re SIT/OAT/UAT scenario definitions as required
• Analysis of design and other documents for testability
• Previous experience within Identity and Access Management- preferable
• Any exposure to SailPoint Identity
  
  IQ, Identity warehousing, and working with protocols and formats for data ingestion such as SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC and CSV
• Experience of testing graph database management systems (GDBMS)
• Service Now, AD, AWS, Azure integrations
• Testing functions and decision points "As Code", such as Policy as code
• Experience of Git Ops Repos
• API Testing, API Gateway testing, Batch ETL testing
• Proven ability to mentor other engineers within the team
• Dev Ops & CI/CD Integration - Ability to integrate automation tests into Git Lab CI/CD pipelines and implement shift-left testing practices
• Pub Sub and MQ
• GCP (Cloud) testing approaches and methodology.
• SaaS Testing

Skill set ideally including several of:

• Java, Cypher, Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET, Go, SQL Server, MySQL
• API
• QMetry
• Test Rail
• BDD/TDD
• Jenkins
• Postman
• Insomnia

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!