Senior Automation Tester (C# / Azure)

📍 Newport, South Wales (20% Office Attendance)

💰 £58,000 + Outstanding Pension

🏢 Permanent Opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Automation Tester to join a large-scale digital technology function delivering enterprise-grade services used across the UK.

This is a hands-on opportunity for an experienced Automation Tester who enjoys building automation frameworks, working with modern cloud technologies and helping shape technical quality standards within an Agile environment.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Designing, developing and maintaining automated UI and API test frameworks
  • Creating and executing functional and non-functional automated test suites
  • Working closely with Software Engineers to improve quality and test coverage
  • Supporting the design, testing and delivery of modern cloud-based services
  • Contributing to technical strategy, standards and best practices
  • Identifying defects, risks and opportunities for continuous improvement
  • Supporting performance, security and scalability testing initiatives

Essential Experience

  • Strong Automation Testing experience within complex digital environments
  • C# and Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • BDD / SpecFlow
  • MSTest
  • API Testing and RestSharp
  • JavaScript
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub
  • SQL and data validation
  • Experience working within Agile delivery teams

Desirable Skills

  • Azure Cloud technologies
  • JMeter
  • Azure Load Testing
  • Performance and non-functional testing
  • Enterprise-scale digital platforms
  • Public sector or highly regulated environments

What's On Offer?

✅ Salary up to £58,000 depending on skills and experience

✅ Employer pension contribution of almost 29%

✅ Hybrid working (minimum 20% office attendance)

✅ Modern Azure-based technology environment

✅ Opportunity to influence testing strategy and engineering standards

✅ Excellent learning and development opportunities

✅ 25 days annual leave increasing to 30 days, plus public holidays

Important Requirements

  • Ability to attend the Newport office as part of hybrid working
  • Existing right to work in the UK
  • Able to obtain security clearance
  • Must have lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years
  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

If you're a Senior Automation Tester looking for a role where you can remain hands-on while helping shape technical quality and automation strategy, we'd love to hear from you.

📩 Apply now or get in touch for more information.

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