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Senior QA Automation / SDET Engineer (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)
Birmingham
6 Month Contract
£400-£450/day (Outside IR35)
Hands on Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) engineer needed with both SC and NPPV3 Security Clearance, plus strong hands-on experience with JUnit, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver.
6 Month Rolling Contract based in Birmingham. Start ASAP in May/June 2026.
Hybrid Working – 3 days/week remote (WFH) + 2 days/week working from the office in Birmingham with occasional travel to Croydon.
A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects:
Key skills, experience + duties to include:
Extensive hands-on experience with JUnit, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver within complex enterprise environments.
Strong understanding of Spring applications, microservices, and distributed architectures.
Good understanding in PostgreSQL, including query optimisation, performance tuning, and data validation.
Experience using WireMock for service virtualisation and integration isolation.
Strong expertise in Performance, Load, and Stress testing using JMeter.
Proven experience leading testing activities within Agile delivery teams.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
Ability to analyse complex systems, identify risks, and design effective test strategies.
Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and related engineering tools.
Desirable Skills: Testing microservices at scale, including contract testing approaches. containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Understanding of BDD/TDD practices and quality driven engineering.Monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
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