Overview

Role: Senior Automation Tester

Location: Newport (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to £53k

28.9% Pension

The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through an incredible digital transformation whilst prioritising forward thinking and excellent digital practices. Alongside this, they pride themselves on being a Stonewall Diversity Champion, which means they are part of Britain’s leading best-practice employers' forum for sexual orientation and gender identity equality, diversity and inclusion.

We are now looking for a Senior Automation Tester to design, build and maintain automated testing solutions that support continuous delivery. You will work closely with developers, product teams and other specialists to ensure high-quality, user-focused digital services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain automated UI and API test suites.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure appropriate unit and integration test coverage.
• Contribute to the design, coding, testing and documentation of scalable, reusable solutions.
• Identify, manage and report defects, risks and issues.
• Build automated test solutions from scratch aligned with agreed standards and principles.
• Develop and use toolkits and APIs to support integration, performance, security and scalability.

Essential Experience

• Proven track record delivering technical solutions within large projects.
• Hands-on experience testing both front-end and back-end web services.
• Skilled in automation tools (e.g. MS Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp, JavaScript).
• Experience with non-functional test tools (e.g. JMeter, Azure Load Test).
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (Azure), Azure DevOps, GitHub and SQL.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery models and test documentation (strategies, approaches).
• Understanding of software architecture and design patterns.

Think this one’s for you

If you think this Senior Automation Tester opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.