Automation Tester

Role: Automation Tester Location: Newport (Hybrid) Salary: Up to £43,000 28.9% Pension The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through an incredible digital transformation whilst prioritising forward thinking and excellent digital practices. Alongside this, they pride themselves on being a Stonewall Diversity Champion, which means they are part of Britain's leading best-practice employers' forum for sexual orientation and gender identity equality, diversity and inclusion.

We are now looking for a Automation Tester to to design, implement, and maintain automated UI and API tests supporting continuous deployment. You'll collaborate across disciplines to ensure high-quality, user-focused digital services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, execute, and maintain automated test suites aligned with acceptance criteria.
• Design and maintain scalable, reusable solutions using DevOps best practices.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure effective test coverage and code quality.
• Identify and communicate defects, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to process optimisation through proactive investigation and innovation.
• Mentor team members in test automation and best practices.
• Support implementation of toolkits and APIs for integration, performance, and scalability.

Essential Experience:

• Proven experience delivering technical solutions in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Understanding of DevOps principles and continuous delivery pipelines.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in test automation frameworks such as Selenium WebDriver, SpecFlow, and RestSharp.
• Experience with at least one mainstream development language.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Ability to write and optimise SQL queries.

Think this one's for you

If you think this Automation Tester opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.