Automation Test Engineer
scrumconnect · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks for public sector digital services, focusing on accessibility, API, performance and cloud-native testing.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks
- Automate API testing using Rest Assured, Postman and Swagger
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub or GitLab)
- Write BDD scenarios using Cucumber, SpecFlow or Reqnroll
- Run functional, integration, end-to-end, regression and acceptance testing
Requirements
- Nice to have: Accessibility testing tools such as Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse, JAWS, Dragon or ZoomText
- Nice to have: UK government or GOV.UK service experience
- Nice to have: Existing BPSS or SC clearance or eligibility for SC
- Nice to have: Performance testing with k6, JMeter or BlazeMeter
- Nice to have: Monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana