Test Automation Engineer in Bristol

Test Automation Engineer

Location: Bristol

Contract: 12 months
Paying: Up to£84p/h Inside IR35

Please note that due to the nature of the work, you will need to hold a high level of UK security clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and own scalable automation frameworks for web UI and API testing
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into clear Gherkin feature files in collaboration with Product Owners and BAs
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps) as quality gates on every build and pull request
• Automate REST API testing using tools such as Postman/Newman or REST Assured, covering authentication, payload validation and negative cases
• Validate back-end data with SQL to confirm UI and API results match the system of record
• Investigate and eliminate flaky tests through root-cause analysis rather than retries
• Manage test data strategies that keep runs repeatable and isolated across environments
• Triage, document and track defects through to resolution, and report quality metrics and release readiness to stakeholders

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining end-to-end automation frameworks in Playwright (TypeScript or Java), including fixtures, Page Object Model, and parallel cross-browser execution
• Proficiency in at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C# or Python
• Solid understanding of functional, regression, integration, smoke and end-to-end testing
• Experience with Git and working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Proven experience writing BDD scenarios in Gherkin and implementing Cucumber step definitions, hooks and scenario outlines
• Experience managing test cases, test runs and results reporting in TestRail, including traceability back to requirements
• Practical experience testing in and integrating with AWS environments (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), including running automated suites against cloud deployments

Desired Skills

• Docker and Kubernetes for containerised test execution
• Performance testing with JMeter
• Accessibility (WCAG)
• AWS certification