Digital Senior Automation Tester

Digital Senior Automation Test Engineer

Newport – 1 day a week onsite

£48000 – £56000 + 29% pension + excellent holidays and other benefits

Must be Security clearable (have lived in the UK for 5+ years

We are looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to help deliver high-quality, reliable digital services. You will play a key role in designing and implementing automated testing solutions that support a continuous deployment environment, ensuring systems are robust, scalable and secure.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary Agile team, you will collaborate closely with developers and stakeholders to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle. This role will involve building automated testing frameworks, improving test coverage and contributing to the delivery of complex, mission-critical services.

Key responsibilities include writing, executing and maintaining automated UI and API tests aligned to acceptance criteria, as well as developing functional and non-functional test suites. You will build automated testing solutions from scratch, test data processes, and ensure testing aligns with engineering principles and DevOps best practices. You will also identify and manage defects, risks and issues, contribute to the design and development of technical solutions, and implement toolkits or APIs to support integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability.

You will work closely with software developers to develop a shared understanding of the codebase and unit test coverage, while ensuring governance standards and security controls are followed, including ISO 27001 and Security Policy Framework requirements. The role may also involve supporting delivery activities, collaborating across multiple teams and mentoring more junior colleagues.

We’re looking for someone who takes ownership, works collaboratively and helps drive delivery forward. You should be comfortable working across teams, engaging stakeholders and sharing knowledge, while continuing to develop your own skills and supporting the growth of others.

To be successful in this role, you will have experience delivering technical solutions within large projects, working with cloud technologies such as Azure, and testing both front-end and back-end web services. You should be comfortable working in Agile environments and have experience creating test strategies and documentation.

Strong technical experience is required with test automation tools and frameworks, including Microsoft Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, BDD/SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp and JavaScript, along with experience using GitHub and Azure DevOps. Experience with non-functional testing tools such as JMeter or Azure Load Test, writing SQL queries, and a good understanding of architecture principles and design patterns is also important.

Desirable skills include knowledge of unit testing, DevOps practices, Docker, Python or ISTQB Foundation certification.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and improve modern digital services while working in a collaborative environment that values learning, development and continuous improvement.