6- month contract (Inside IR35) Experienced Automation Tester required for an initial 6-month contract (Inside IR35) to join the current team and provide SME testing expertise in digital solutions and services. Responsibilities: • Working with project managers, technical leads and subject matter experts to plan and execute manual tests. • Plan and write automated tests • Define and Execute acceptance test with business analyst’s/business areas using BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) • Work within Agile Scrum teams, and prioritise own work • Serving as the subject matter expert in the configuration, maintenance, and/or administration of testing tools or environments. • Developing automation tests to a good coverage and standard. • Responsible for quality assurance within Testing environments, tools and pipelines Experience required: • Strong understanding of Agile (Scrum, Kanban) development & QA methodologies. • Assistance with fault diagnosis • Proven experience in using SQL to interrogate data within a database. A proven track record of functional testing at various levels such as: • Strong experience of writing automation tests, utilising Specflow, and Selenium in .NET • Integration Testing • Smoke Testing • User Acceptance Testing • Interface Testing / Usability Testing • System Testing • API Testing • Regression Testing Desirable: • Strong test planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong skills involving prioritising and reprioritising testing tasks. • Continuous improvement experience