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Digital Recruitment Specialist | GDS | Digital First | Discovery | Alpha | Beta | Live
- 6-month contract
- £400 to £425 per day (Outside-IR35)
- 100% Remote Working
The Opportunity:
We are currently seeking an experienced GDS Test Engineer with proven experience consulting as a Test Engineer on modern web-based services for the Government Digital Services platform.
You will be joining a delivery team working on high-quality, user-centred digital services, where you will work closely with developers, product owners and delivery colleagues to ensure services are robust, accessible, secure and performant.
This role will suit someone with strong automation, API testing, accessibility and security testing experience, who is comfortable working in an Agile environment.
Skills and Experience:
Strong hands‑on experience with:
- Ruby
- Selenium
- API testing (REST, Postman/Newman)
- Accessibility testing (WAVE, Pa11y)
- Security testing (OWASP ZAP, Dependency Check)
- Strong understanding of version control using Git
- Comfortable working in Agile delivery environments
- Performance testing using JMeter or BlazeMeter
- Experience working with the GOV‑UK Design System and assuring compliance with design standards
- Experience configuring or contributing to CI/CD pipelines for automated testing
Role and Responsibilities:
- You will be consulting on meaningful digital services with real user impact, collaborating with experienced, multi‑disciplinary delivery teams.
- A culture that values quality, accessibility and security as first‑class concerns where you will have the opportunity to influence and improve testing practices across delivery.
- Performing accessibility testing using tools such as WAVE and Pa11y and conducting security testing using OWASP ZAP and Dependency Check.
- Collaborating effectively within Agile delivery teams, contributing to continuous improvement of testing practices whilst maintaining test code, documentation and version control using Git, GitHub or GitLab.
Applications:
Please contact Edward here at ISR Recruitment to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology.
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- Information Technology, Consulting, and Other
- Industries: IT System Testing and Evaluation, IT Services and IT Consulting, and IT System Design Services
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