QA Automation Engineer

£50,000 – £60,000

Fully Remote – Once a month in Watford

As a QA Automation Engineer, you’ll help build and maintain robust automated testing frameworks to ensure high-quality software delivery. You’ll work closely with developers and testers to integrate testing into the development lifecycle, drive quality standards, and prevent defects early.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain UI, API, performance, and accessibility automated tests using Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.

• Collaborate with QA and engineering teams to ensure test strategies align with project goals and best practices.

• Analyse test results, identify bugs, and implement regression safeguards.

• Maintain QA documentation, support onboarding, and champion best practices.

• Participate in code reviews, innovation sprints, and QA stack improvements.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in building automation frameworks and test suites.

• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming.

• Familiar with BDD, testing pyramids, and cross-browser tools like BrowserStack or SauceLabs.

• Skilled with Postman, JMeter, and API testing.

• Experienced in CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub, Azure DevOps) and DevOps practices.

• Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration.

Role: Flutter Developer

Salary: up to £65,000

Location: Fully remote

We have an exciting opportunity to join a leading organisation as a Flutter Developer. As a Flutter Developer you will be developing and maintaining the mobile app, writing testable and maintainable code as well as collaborating with designers and products owners to create market leading solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining our mobile app, ensuring it meets the highest standards of quality and performance.
• Collaborating with designers and product owners to create market-leading solutions tailored to end user’s needs.
• Writing clean, testable, and maintainable code using modern Flutter practices.
• Reviewing pull requests, participating in code reviews, and contributing to technical discussions.
• Continuously refining processes, estimations, and technical documentation.
• Debugging and optimising app performance to deliver a seamless user experience.
• Presenting progress and results to stakeholders.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of commercial Flutter development experience is required.
• Proficiency in Dart and a solid understanding of mobile development best practices.
• Prior experience in mobile development with other frameworks (e.g., iOS/Android native) is an advantage.
• Experience with state management solutions such as Riverpod, BLoC, or Provider.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and JSON for backend integration.
• Familiarity with Git and an understanding of version control workflows within a CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience with automated testing and a commitment to writing high-quality, testable code.
• Strong problem-solving skills, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to adapt to a dynamic environment.

Benefits

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme – employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more.

Power Apps Developer

£500/day overall assignment rate to umbrella

Remote working – occasional site visits

3 month contract

Working with a leading retail client who are looking for a Power Apps Developer to design and develop business applications using the Microsoft Power Platform – will need strong experience in building applications using Power Apps.

Power Apps Developer, key skills:

• Power Apps specialist – design and develop applications using Power Apps
• MUST have extensive SQL – integrating with SQL and ability to write SQL queries to support integration
• Strong collaboration skills
• Python knowledge

Power Apps, SQL, Python

Citrix Cloud/VDI specialist, Cloud Migration, Remote

Specialist Citrix/VDI specialist required for an industry leading business.

The wider project is a Europe-wide migration from legacy, on premise technology to a Citrix and Cloud (Azure) solution. The successful candidate will be part of an international Virtual Workplace team consisting managing Citrix farms for a large number of users.

You will work closely with other Workplace & Infrastructure technical, project and product; this role will involve the delivery of strategic direction and expansion of the Europe-wide Virtual desktop estate.

A strong design and integration mind-set to support any future move to a true cloud based service id essential.

Service can be provide on a remote basis.

This assignment is required to operate through an Umbrella company and all employer, employee tax and NI will be deducted from the rate.

General responsibilities: –

Contribute significantly to and assist with the delivery and maintenance of the Virtual Desktop roadmap, in conjunction with relevant Tech Specialists & architects.

• Develop virtual desktop and application hosting offerings to support local & global requirements.
• Develop business cases for usage of the correct desktop platforms to local and global customers.
• Ensure all relevant project proposals align with the global strategy and are optimised for the end users.
• Keep track of technical debt and provide solutions to mitigate.

Skills & experience required:

• Citrix Cloud
• Citrix Xen Desktop 7.x plus legacy products
• Azure Multi Region Hosting
• TFE (Terraform)
• PowerShell
• Windows 11, Windows 11 Multi-Session
• Windows Server 2019> 2025
• Citrix product knowledge including Storefront & NetScaler
• Citrix products that supplement XenApp and XenDesktop
• Virtual Desktop, Citrix Gateways Services, Citrix Device Posture
• Experience of working within a project environment providing technical leadership, design and performance enhancement
• Strategic understanding of Virtual Desktop technologies, specifically Citrix
• Ability to communicate ideas & solutions to audiences of all levels and nationalities, adapting style accordingly.
• Ability to lead the development of I.T. solutions in Virtual Workplace
• Solution design experience.

Software Engineer – Mid-Senior

Java required, ideally with AWS

Salary to £70,000 plus generous performance and clearance related bonuses of up to £14,000/annum

Cheltenham or Manchester – Typically 3 days on site

Sanderson are working with a major supplier to the UK MoD and National Security sector who are currently recruiting for Software Engineers across multiple levels.

They are looking for individuals who have Java as one of their primary languages, and ideally AWS although other cloud experience will be considered.

You would ideally currently hold at least some form of Security Clearance, and will be required to go through DV clearance one you are in post. There is a significant bonus associated with this. That being said, we are happy to consider application from those who do not currently hold clearance.

There are two stages of interview for this position.

Position: Data Engineer (2 Full-Time Roles)

Location: Birmingham (Onsite 3 days per week)

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain ingest pipelines
• Perform data engineering tasks
• Engage directly with clients, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
• Work alongside senior Elastic professionals on the project

Requirements:

• Experience with Elastic (certification support available)
• Knowledge of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)
• Strong client-facing skills
• Ability to work onsite in Birmingham for 3 days per week

IAM Architect (SC Cleared)

Remote

Up to £665/day (Inside IR35)
6 Month Contract

Role details:

We’re partnering with a global consultancy who are market leaders in Cybersecurity. They are looking for an experienced

IAM Architect to support the design and implementation of a complex consumer access management solution for a UK Public Sector client. This is a hands-on role involving both high- and low-level design, integration, and configuration of IAM technologies in a secure environment.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver high and low-level designs for IAM solutions.
• Implement and configure secure access management systems.
• Integrate authentication and authorisation protocols (OAuth/OIDC, XACML, MFA).
• Work with IBM Security Verify Access to build and manage access flows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure and scalable identity services.
• Automate IAM tasks and processes using scripting tools.
  

Requirements:

• IBM Security Verify Access (ISVA)
• OAuth / OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• XACML
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA / MMFA)
• API Design
• Python and Ansible for scripting and automation.

Eligibility:

To be considered for the role, you must have active SC Clearance.

Support Analyst, End user Security Engineer (Vulnerabilities), Intune, Endpoint configuration Manager.

Our client, a market leader in their sector, are looking to hire a contractor for an endpoint security project to ensure the efficient operation of end user devices, including Laptops, phones, handheld devices etc.

The primary responsibility with the role will be vulnerability Management, including conducting regular assessments, implementing security measures and liaising with various depts.

The successful candidate will implement and manage software patches promptly and configure MS Teams, Intune and Endpoint Config Manager accordingly.

Skills required: –

• Relevant experience in vulnerability management and endpoint security
• Strong knowledge of MS Teams, Intune and Endpoint Configuration manager
• Familiar with identity and access management principles

Responsibilities:

• Respond to incidents related to EUC reported through the Service Desk or monitoring systems.
• Provisioning / patching of end user computing devices such as laptops and phones in adherence to agreed service level agreements (SLAs).
• Diagnose & troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software vulnerabilities, escalate complex or unresolved incidents to appropriate teams or vendors.
• Implement and manage software patches for end user computing devices, ensuring security updates are applied promptly to mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Conduct regular reviews of outstanding vulnerability and patch management activities using tools such as Qualys and Microsoft InTune.
• Maintain configuration baselines for end user devices and ensuring compliance with organisational standards.
• Collaborate with various departments to address and remediate vulnerabilities identified in vulnerability scanning reports.
• Provide training and support to users on security best practices and the importance of regular updates.

IT Support Technician

Stonehouse, Gloucestershire (2 days on site per week)

Salary to £26,000/annum

SC or eligibility for SC clearance required

Sanderson Government and Defence have partnered with an exciting mid size consultancy who operating right across the UK Secure Government sector in their search for an IT Support Technician who would ultimately be externally facing.

Our requirements for this role are as follows:

• At least 6 months experience working in an IT Support based role
• Strong communication skills and external customer facing experience (doesn’t have to be IT related)
• Eligibility for SC Clearance (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels)
• Ability to work 2 days per week in the Stonehouse location (own transport ideal)
• Willingness to learn and progress within the organisation

This would be a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a stable yet exciting and opportunity laden role within the UK secure government sector.

Role: Visual Designer
Rate: £400 p/d Inside IR35
Location: Central London HQ – Hybrid Model (3 days p/w on site)
Duration: 12 months

Key Qualifications

• Several years of relevant design experience
• Demonstrated mastery of Adobe Photoshop and other relevant design tools
• Strong command of visual design principles and current design trends
• Expertise in editing both photorealistic and non-photorealistic images
• Keen eye for detail and ability to maintain focus on repetitive tasks
• Experience working in an iterative design process
• Passion for graphic design, photography, and illustration
• Familiarity with Generative AI, prompt design and prompt engineering

Essential Skills

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Clear and concise communication skills
• Strong organizational and time management abilities
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills
• Capability to package and present findings to creative teams and management
• Adaptability to fast-paced, high-volume work environments

Key responsibilities:

• Review and evaluate images for alignment with guidelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain visual consistency across projects
• Identify and communicate visual trends, issues, or areas for improvement