Functional Tester

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Current SC Clearance
• Proven experience in functional testing within complex enterprise environments
• Strong test automation experience
• Experience testing backend platforms and service-based architectures
• Good understanding of APIs, XML, and SOAP messaging
• Ability to create detailed test scenarios, test data, and expected results
• Experience with defect management, reporting, and test governance
• Comfortable working independently within Agile delivery teams
• Experience using JMeter
• Experience using Jira
• Experience using Zephyr or similar test management tools
• Strong XML knowledge
• Experience testing SOAP-based services
• Exposure to identity management, biometric solutions, or matching technologies would be advantageous

Responsibilities:

• Support a project focused on identity and matching services
• Carry out functional and automated testing across backend systems, APIs, and web services
• Create, execute, and maintain functional and automated test suites for identity and matching workflows
• Develop and enhance automation frameworks and test scripts
• Build test datasets, input messages, and validation criteria for a variety of business scenarios
• Validate APIs, web services, and system integrations
• Carry out functional, operational, and non-functional testing activities
• Log, investigate, and manage defects through to closure
• Work closely with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure quality objectives are met
• Help improve testing processes, tooling, and automation practices

Technologies:

• Backend
• Support
• JIRA
• JMeter
• SOAP
• Web
• XML

More:

We are seeking an SC Cleared Functional Tester for one of our local clients. This is an inside IR35 contract paying £438 per day, with five days a week on-site, though this may reduce over time. The role is based in Leicester or Winchester. You will support a project focused on identity and matching services, working across backend systems, APIs, and web services. We act as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

last updated 31 week of 2026