Overview
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer Jobs in England, United Kingdom at Stealth iT Consulting
Title: Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Company: Stealth iT Consulting
Location: England, United Kingdom
Automation Assurance Specialist – Permanent
Location: Remote with occasional travel to client site's
Salary: Up to £55,000
Clearance: Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance, have 5 years UK residency, and the correct right to work status in the UK.
We are working with a leading IT Consultancy who are looking for Automation Assurance Specialists play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and quality of technical solutions delivered to clients. Responsibilities include executing comprehensive testing across areas such as Accessibility, Performance, Security, and Functional validation.
You will work across a vast variety of projects and get exposure to a variety of technologies such as (but not exhaustively) NodeJS, Java, Kotlin, Spring boot framework, RESTful microservices, NoSQL databases.
In this role you will play a key role in:
- Undertaking cross-functional engineering projects, working in small teams with other engineers in different knowledge spheres, building supportable, sustainable, and reliable services
- Be part of a community of engineers. You will be able to work together as a community and help each other to deliver and develop as professionals. We work on large scale, technically challenging projects
- Take personal responsibility for assuring confidence in the technical delivery – collaborating with other engineers and the design team.
- Share your knowledge and experience with colleagues as you coach them and mentor them, helping the team to grow their skills, as well as developing your own skills by experimenting with and learning new technologies
- Work with clients and internal teams to develop new opportunities and open-source projects and initiatives
Your Profile:
Required:
- Have a certified ISTQB background; ISTQB Foundation at a minimum. Equivalent qualifications or experience may be considered.
- Experience with these core testing techniques: Exploratory, Integration, Manual, Functional
- Experience setting up and contributing to test frameworks in Java or JavaScript
- Experience writing a variety of backend and frontend automated tests using Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, REST etc.
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience using online version control tools – GitHub, GitLab etc.
- Experience with self-managing and being able to self-identify areas that needs work
Desired:
- Experience with a wider range of testing techniques (Accessibility, Performance, Security etc.)
- Experience with applying structured evaluation methods (AI evals) to validate outputs in real-world scenarios
- Experience using Docker to aid testing
- Experience using Maven to run your automated tests
- Experience with CI/CD (Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins)
- Familiarity with web standards, accessibility, and test automation best practices
- Knowledge of the GOV.UK design system
