Automation Test Engineer

Posted 08 December 2025
LocationSheffield
Job type Contract
Discipline Technology

Job description

​This role is predominantly required to fulfil the role of Automation test lead, with occasional manual testing where required.

Solid experience of at least 5 years in the use of automation tooling and framework creation especially with Java and SQL

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills and stakeholder engagement at all levels

  • Able to develop and execute test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related plans and documentation based on the requirements and technical specifications

  • Plan, develop, execute, maintain and improve Automated Test Frameworks and Automated Test Scripts for Web and Database applications

  • Proven experience in writing automated test scripts using JavaScript

  • Experience of using automation tools such as Selenium web driver IO (WDIO) / Cucumber etc, Selenium for UI testing and RestAssured for API testing

  • Experience of test tool selection/recommendations based on assessment of the environment/landscape.

Skill set ideally including several of:

  • Java, Cypher, Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET, Go, SQL Server, MySQL

  • API

  • QMetry

  • Test Rail

  • BDD/TDD

  • Jenkins

  • Postman

  • Insomnia