QA Automation / SDET Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• We require current SC and NPPV3 Security Clearance.
• We require extensive hands-on experience with JUnit, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver in complex enterprise environments.
• We require strong understanding of Spring applications, microservices, and distributed architectures.
• We require good knowledge of PostgreSQL, including query optimisation, performance tuning, and data validation.
• We require experience using WireMock for service virtualisation and integration isolation.
• We require strong expertise in performance, load, and stress testing using JMeter.
• We require proven experience leading testing activities within Agile delivery teams.
• We require strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
• We require the ability to analyse complex systems, identify risks, and design effective test strategies.
• We require experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and related engineering tools.
• We require excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• We consider experience testing microservices at scale, including contract testing approaches, highly desirable.
• We consider experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, highly desirable.
• We consider understanding of BDD/TDD practices and quality-driven engineering highly desirable.
• We consider experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• We will need you to lead hands-on QA automation and SDET testing activities in an Agile delivery environment.
• We will need you to design, build, and maintain automated tests using JUnit, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver.
• We will need you to create and execute performance, load, and stress tests using JMeter.
• We will need you to support testing across Spring applications, microservices, and distributed systems.
• We will need you to validate data and analyse PostgreSQL queries for optimisation and performance.
• We will need you to use WireMock to virtualise services and isolate integrations during testing.
• We will need you to assess system risks and shape effective test strategies.
• We will need you to work with CI/CD pipelines and engineering tools to support continuous delivery.
• We will need you to collaborate closely with engineering, delivery, and business stakeholders.
• We will need you to contribute to quality-driven engineering practices across the team.

Technologies

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Confluence
• Cucumber
• Docker
• ELK
• GCP
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Grafana
• Support
• JIRA
• JUnit
• Jenkins
• JMeter
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Security
• Selenium
• Spring
• TDD
• microservices

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We are a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects. This is a 6-month rolling contract based in Birmingham, offered outside IR35 at £400-£450 per day. We work in a hybrid model with 3 days per week remote and 2 days per week in our Birmingham office, with occasional travel to Croydon. The role is due to start as soon as possible in May/June 2026, and offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-profile transformation work within a collaborative technical team.

last updated 21 week of 2026