Software Test Automation Engineer Remote £competitive outside IR35 rate Contract Test, Quality Assurance, ISTQB, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Azure Devops, Postman Our client are seeking an experience Test Engineer/Test Automation professional to preside over business-wide test activities - test automation and API testing will be in amongst the main duties of the role. We are looking for a proactive Quality Assurance professional to drive higher software standards through shift-left testing and early requirement analysis. You will plan, design, carry out tests in alignment and conjunction with existing technical and business teams and be the champion of Quality and seamless UAT throughout the business. Key Tools Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, Azure DevOps Test Plans, Jira + Zephyr/Xray, TestRail, HP ALM. Test Automation Knowledge of test automation frameworks (eg, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright). Understanding of CI/CD integration for automated tests (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins). Script creation, maintenance, and optimisation. API Testing Using tools like Postman, REST Assured, SoapUI. Validating response codes, payloads, headers, auth flows (OAuth2, tokens). Test Planning and Execution Test planning, strategic development and scope management Translating functional and non-functional requirements into comprehensive, structured test cases. Conducting manual testing across diverse platforms, including web, mobile, desktop, and API environments. Boun