Senior Automaton Tester

Automation Tester – SC – hybrid Manchester or Newcastle Upon Tyne – 6 months - c£520pday Umbrella) Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Automation Tester to work on a hybrid basis (3 days p/wk) in either Manchester or Newcastle upon Tyne. You will have current SC clearance ideally or eligible to go through SC clearance. At this role level, you will: •work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level •collaborate with analysts to ensure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test scripts •work on both functional and non-functional areas of an application •coach and mentor testers •Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the organisation to coordinate test coverage and schedules Essential technologies: •Java and Spring Framework •Cucumber for BDD testing •REST APIs beneficial to be familiar with the following technologies: •Wiremock •Maven •AWS Stack, including secure cloud testing •Automation Testing (Selenium / JMeter / K6) •REST Client (Postman / Insomnia) •GitLab CI •Java (to code Cucumber steps in test framework) •Container environments (e.g., Kubernetes)