Senior QA Automation Engineer
Duration: 6 months (with extensions)
Location: London based (Canary Wharf)
Excellent Rates
Public Sector Experience highly desirable
*Urgent 6 Month contract – Role hiring now!*
This is a *London* based role with an excellent immediate start within a Public Sector organisation working on *Designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.*
Play a key role in delivering high-quality, resilient digital services at scale.
We are seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a high-performing technology team responsible for delivering complex, enterprise-scale applications and integrations. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about quality engineering, automation, and ensuring robust end-to-end user experiences across multiple interconnected systems.
You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing modern test automation frameworks, driving quality across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing, and helping teams build confidence in every release.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Create and execute automated smoke, regression, and core user journey test suites covering both happy and unhappy paths.
- Validate complex business processes spanning multiple systems and APIs.
- Test cross-system workflows and state changes where data is propagated between platforms.
- Ensure the quality and resilience of integrations, including testing failure scenarios, timeouts, and degraded dependencies.
- Support feature-flagged releases and validate behaviour across multiple configuration states.
- Verify data integrity across imports, exports, synchronisation processes, and system integrations.
- Collaborate closely with developers, product teams, and operational stakeholders to embed quality throughout the software delivery life cycle.
- Support and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities with business and operational teams.
- Contribute to performance and load testing initiatives to ensure systems perform effectively at scale.
What We’re Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience designing and implementing automated testing frameworks in complex environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and/or Cypress for end-to-end test automation.
- Experience testing applications and services developed using Kotlin and TypeScript.
- Strong API testing experience, including testing modern integrations and Legacy system interactions.
- Experience testing distributed systems with multiple APIs and complex service dependencies.
- Knowledge of integration resilience testing, including failure handling, retries, timeout scenarios, and degraded service conditions.
- Experience with contract testing tools such as PACT.
- Strong understanding of enterprise-scale application testing and large distributed architectures.
- Experience validating cross-system data flows and ensuring data consistency across multiple platforms.
- Knowledge of relational databases and experience testing data-driven applications using PostgreSQL and SQL.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify edge cases, operational risks, and failure scenarios.
Desirable
- Experience with data migration testing, including data mapping, transformation, and validation.
- Experience with performance and load testing tools such as Gatling.
- Experience working within highly regulated or large-scale public sector environments.
Why Join Us?
- Work on complex, mission-critical systems used at scale.
- Influence quality engineering practices across multiple teams.
- Help shape automation strategy and testing standards.
- Collaborate with talented engineers, architects, and product specialists.
- Opportunity to work with modern technologies and large-scale distributed architectures.
Please send your CV or call Javaid to discuss further.
We are an equal opportunities employment agency and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
We champion differences in technology recruitment and work with clients who actively wish to diversify their talent force – ALL applicants are welcome to apply.
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