Senior Test Engineer (SC Cleared)

Location: Remote
Rate: £458.24 per day (£61.10 per hour)

We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer to join a major public sector digital transformation programme. This is an opportunity to play a key role in defining and delivering quality assurance strategies across complex, large-scale services, ensuring the highest standards of testing, automation, and non-functional assurance.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own, and communicate testing strategies aligned with delivery objectives, business risk, and government service standards.
• Select and tailor appropriate testing approaches, including manual, automated, exploratory, and risk-based testing across complex systems and integrations.
• Provide expert guidance on test scope, entry and exit criteria, and quality risks to delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Balance effective quality assurance with the practical demands of agile delivery environments.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of automated testing frameworks.
• Determine where automation provides value while ensuring maintainability and risk-based coverage.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and help improve development feedback cycles.
• Evaluate and recommend testing tools, frameworks, and best practices to enhance delivery effectiveness.
• Plan, build, and execute non-functional testing activities, including:
  • Performance testing
  • Accessibility testing
  • Security testing
  • Resilience testing
  • Interoperability testing
• Collaborate with technical specialists and third-party suppliers to ensure appropriate testing coverage.
• Analyse and communicate testing outcomes in terms of business and user impact, not just technical results.
• Ensure sufficient evidence is available to support informed release and deployment decisions.

Required Skills & Experience

Test Automation

• Strong expertise in JavaScript-based test automation frameworks such as:
  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • WebdriverIO
• Experience with API testing using:
  • Postman
  • Open-source JavaScript testing libraries and frameworks

Performance Testing

• Hands-on experience with:
  • JMeter
  • K6

DevOps & CI/CD

• Experience integrating automated testing within CI/CD pipelines using:
  • Jenkins
  • AWS
  • Azure DevOps

Source Control

• Advanced GitHub experience, including collaboration and code version management best practices.

Testing Methodologies

• Strong background in exploratory testing techniques with the ability to focus effort on areas of greatest risk.
• Proven experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Ability to define quality strategy and influence stakeholders at both technical and leadership levels.

Essential Requirements

• Active SC Clearance.
• Experience delivering testing services within large-scale public sector or highly regulated environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

If you’re a Senior Test Engineer who combines strategic quality leadership with hands-on technical expertise and thrives in complex delivery environments, we’d love to hear from you.

Senior Mobile Automation Engineer (SC Cleared)

£450 per day | Outside IR35 | Remote First | Occasional London Travel

We’re seeking an experienced Senior Mobile Automation Engineer to join a large-scale digital programme, helping shape and deliver modern mobile testing practices across multiple product teams.

Working closely with senior engineering and quality stakeholders, you’ll play a key role in driving testing excellence, defining automation strategy, and ensuring high-quality mobile experiences across both iOS and Android platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement mobile automation testing strategies.
• Build, maintain and improve scalable automation frameworks.
• Drive quality engineering best practice across multiple teams.
• Deliver automated end-to-end, integration, regression and API testing.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, analysts and product stakeholders.
• Support and mentor other testers within the team.
• Champion continuous improvement across testing tools, processes and approaches.
• Influence engineering teams to adopt effective testing and quality practices.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Active SC Clearance.
• Strong commercial experience in mobile test automation.
• Proven experience testing both iOS and Android applications.
• Experience building or enhancing automation frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and/or Selenium.
• API testing experience.
• End-to-end testing experience within agile delivery environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

Technical Environment

Experience with some or all of the following would be advantageous:

• Playwright
• Selenium
• Maestro
• BrowserStack
• TypeScript
• Java
• Node.js
• Express
• AWS

Desirable Experience

• AI application testing.
• Validation of streamed AI responses.
• Performance and load testing.
• Creation of automation frameworks from scratch.
• Government or large-scale digital services experience.
• Consultancy or client-facing environments.

Contract Details

Day Rate: £450 per day
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Contract Length: Initial contract through to 31 December 2026
Location: Predominantly remote, with occasional travel to London as required
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required
Interview Process: Single-stage video interview

If you’re an experienced mobile automation engineer with strong iOS and Android testing expertise and current SC clearance, we’d be interested in hearing from you.

Test Team Opportunities – Defence Digital Engineering Programme

Location: Remote with occasional onsite visits to Preston (approximately 2-4 days per month)
Start: ASAP
Duration: Until December 2026 with likely extension
Rate: £450-£550 per day (Inside IR35)
Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required | UK Sole Nationals Only

Overview

We’re supporting a major Digital Engineering programme within the Defence sector and are seeking experienced testing professionals across a number of positions to support a large-scale Verification Testing phase.

We are interested in speaking with experienced:

• Test Managers
• Test Analysts
• Testers

These roles will work across a suite of integrated Digital Engineering applications, helping ensure solutions meet defined business and quality standards ahead of deployment. The opportunities are predominantly remote, with only occasional onsite attendance required in Preston.

Available Opportunities

Test Manager

The Test Manager will lead and coordinate end-to-end testing activities throughout the verification testing phase.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining and managing test strategies and test plans
• Coordinating the creation of test scenarios and test scripts
• Managing test execution activities
• Monitoring risks, issues and defects
• Producing test status reports and stakeholder updates
• Leading engagement with business users, project teams, developers and vendors

Test Analyst

The Test Analyst will design and maintain test scenarios, test cases and test scripts while ensuring comprehensive coverage against business and functional requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Analysing business and functional requirements
• Creating test scenarios, test cases and test scripts
• Defining test data requirements
• Maintaining testing documentation
• Supporting defect triage and resolution activities
• Ensuring appropriate test coverage across systems and business processes

Tester

The Tester will execute verification testing activities and support the successful delivery of solutions through effective defect management and retesting.

Key responsibilities include:

• Executing approved test scripts
• Recording and evidencing test outcomes
• Identifying and logging defects
• Supporting defect resolution and retesting
• Working closely with Test Managers, Test Analysts and development teams
• Contributing to solution quality and deployment readiness

Essential Experience

• Experience within software testing, UAT, verification testing or quality assurance environments
• Good understanding of the end-to-end testing lifecycle
• Experience working with business stakeholders, developers and project teams
• Strong communication and documentation skills

Desirable Experience

Experience within Digital Engineering environments and exposure to any of the following technologies would be highly beneficial:

• Siemens Teamcenter
• BAE PropheSea
• CDS
• DOORS NG
• CAMEO
• CAD tools
• Medini

Industry Experience

Experience gained within Defence, Aerospace, Engineering, National Security or other highly regulated environments would be advantageous.

What’s on Offer?

• £450-£550 per day Inside IR35
• Initial engagement until December 2026
• Predominantly remote working
• Limited onsite commitment of approximately 2-4 days per month in Preston
• Opportunity to support a high-profile Digital Engineering transformation programme
• Strong likelihood of extension beyond the initial term

If you’re an SC-cleared Test Manager, Test Analyst or Tester looking for an opportunity within a complex Digital Engineering environment, we’d be keen to hear from you.

Senior Data Quality Engineer

£500-525 per day | Outside IR35 | Initial contract to December 2026| Hybrid (London)

Leading Financial Services business is looking to bring in a Senior Data Quality Engineer to join its Finance Data & Reporting Product Team. This is a hands-on contract focused on data quality, testing, reconciliation and automation across a modern cloud data platform.

Working across the full data lifecycle, you will validate finance data from source systems through to Snowflake, dbt and Power BI, while enhancing an existing data quality framework and driving improvements in test automation and quality engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute end-to-end data quality, validation and reconciliation testing.
• Validate data across source systems, Snowflake, dbt transformations and Power BI reporting.
• Enhance and extend the existing dbt Core testing framework.
• Build automated data quality, regression and reconciliation checks.
• Investigate data quality issues, perform root cause analysis and drive resolution.
• Partner with Finance, Product, Engineering and Business stakeholders to understand requirements and validate outcomes.
• Communicate testing results, risks and data quality issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation, testing assets, process guides and knowledge transfer materials.
• Support the ongoing maturity of data quality and testing practices across the team.

You will be a senior data quality professional who can quickly understand existing frameworks, work independently, and add value from day one. You’ll be equally comfortable writing SQL and reconciliation tests, discussing data issues with engineers, presenting findings to finance stakeholders, and creating documentation that enables others to support and extend the solution.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience in Data Quality Engineering, Data Testing or Data QA Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt and SQL.
• Experience testing ETL/ELT pipelines and modern data warehouse solutions.
• Strong background in financial data validation, reporting and reconciliations.
• Experience within Insurance, Banking or Financial Services.
• Ability to work across the full end-to-end data lifecycle.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience producing clear documentation and engaging with both business and technical teams.

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