Test Automation Engineer

Location: Bristol

Contract: 12 months
Paying: Up to-84p/h Inside IR35

Please note that due to the nature of the work, you will need to hold a high level of UK security clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and own scalable automation frameworks for web UI and API testing
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into clear Gherkin feature files in collaboration with Product Owners and BAs
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps) as quality gates on every build and pull request
• Automate REST API testing using tools such as Postman/Newman or REST Assured, covering authentication, payload validation and negative cases
• Validate back-end data with SQL to confirm UI and API results match the system of record
• Investigate and eliminate flaky tests through root-cause analysis rather than retries
• Manage test data strategies that keep runs repeatable and isolated across environments
• Triage, document and track defects through to resolution, and report quality metrics and release readiness to stakeholders

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining end-to-end automation frameworks in Playwright (TypeScript or Java), including fixtures, Page Object Model, and parallel cross-browser execution
• Proficiency in at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C# or Python
• Solid understanding of functional, regression, integration, smoke and end-to-end testing
• Experience with Git and working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Proven experience writing BDD scenarios in Gherkin and implementing Cucumber step definitions, hooks and scenario outlines
• Experience managing test cases, test runs and results reporting in TestRail, including traceability back to requirements
• Practical experience testing in and integrating with AWS environments (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), including running automated suites against cloud deployments

Desired Skills

• Docker and Kubernetes for containerised test execution
• Performance testing with JMeter
• Accessibility (WCAG)
• AWS certification

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.