Senior Software Test Engineer

Salary: £69,000 - 109,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience in both manual and automated software testing.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated test frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of API, UI, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience working collaboratively within multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Current UK Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance is essential.
• Experience with open-source testing technologies and frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Cucumber, Robot Framework, Serenity BDD, and Rest Assured.
• Experience across cloud environments, DevOps practices, and modern software delivery pipelines would be beneficial.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Deliver both manual and automated testing across complex software solutions.
• Embed quality engineering practices throughout the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Work within Agile teams using modern engineering approaches including TDD, BDD, ATDD, and Continuous Testing.
• Design and execute functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Perform non-functional testing including performance, security, accessibility, and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT).
• Collaborate with developers and DevOps engineers to ensure quality is integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to improving QA processes, automation frameworks, tooling, and engineering standards.
• Mentor colleagues and promote best practice across delivery teams.
• Share new ideas with the QA team and help improve test frameworks and processes.

Technologies:

• API
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Cucumber
• Cypress
• DevOps
• Support
• Playwright
• REST
• Robot Framework
• Security
• Selenium
• TDD
• UX UI Design
• Embedded

More:

We are a leading technology consultancy delivering secure, mission-critical solutions to the UK Government and Defence sector. Our work supports some of the nations most important programmes, helping government departments make critical decisions that strengthen the UKs security and prosperity. With a team of more than 450 highly skilled professionals, we combine technical excellence with a collaborative, people-first culture. This Senior Test Engineer role sits within a small, agile delivery team focused on assuring the quality of secure software throughout the full development lifecycle. We offer hybrid working from our offices in Bristol, Cheltenham, and Manchester, along with flexitime, continuous training and professional development, a dedicated Career Coach, wellbeing support, and a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.

last updated 31 week of 2026