Test Automation Engineer Location: Newcastle, Leeds or Manchester, with occasional travel Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time Salary: £63,000 per annum, plus benefits Security Clearance: [To confirm] Start Date: ASAP The Role We''re looking for an experienced Test Automation Engineer to build and run automated testing for public sector digital services. You''ll work in multidisciplinary agile teams, using code to test microservices, user interfaces and APIs, and to build quality into every release through continuous testing. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain automated tests for UI and APIs, using Selenium, Cypress or Playwright and REST Assured. Test microservices, including service interactions and contracts. Write behaviour-driven (BDD) tests using Cucumber that the whole team can read and trust. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines so tests run continuously. Plan and run performance, security and accessibility testing. Write clean, maintainable test code, and review other engineers'' tests. Analyse results, raise defects with clear evidence and help track them to a fix. Work with developers, business analysts and product owners to define acceptance criteria and test coverage. Report on quality, test coverage and release risks. Share good test automation practice and support colleagues. What We''re Looking For Essential: Strong, hands-on experience of test automation and programming (for example Java, JavaScript or ..... full job details .....