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Automation Test Engineer

Patterdown, Chippenham💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-02 → 2026-08-07

Core

Designing, building, and maintaining automated testing frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing to ensure quality and resilience of critical public sector digital services.

Role type

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Builds

Automated test frameworks and suites for enterprise applications and services

Domain

Public sector digital transformation, enterprise software testing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Playwright, Cypress, Kotlin, TypeScript, API testing, contract testing (PACT), resilience testing, CI/CD integration, database testing (PostgreSQL/SQL), performance/load testing

Preferred skills

Experience with feature-flagged releases, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination, data integrity validation

Technologies

Playwright, Cypress, Kotlin, TypeScript, PACT, Gatling, PostgreSQL, SQL

Responsibilities

Design and implement automated test frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing; Develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright and/or Cypress; Test services built using Kotlin and TypeScript; Validate complex integrations between modern platforms and legacy systems; Deliver API testing across multiple services and enterprise applications; Perform resilience and failure testing, including timeout, degradation, and dependency failure scenarios; Create and maintain smoke, regression, and core user journey test suites covering both happy and unhappy paths; Execute performance and load testing activities using tools such as Gatling; Support and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities with operational stakeholders; Contribute to continuous improvement of testing standards, processes, and automation capabilities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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