Automation Assurance Specialist

We are seeking an Automation Assurance Specialist (Consultant) to join a high-performing Digital Excellence team delivering complex, technology-led transformation programmes. You will play a critical role in assuring the quality, reliability and robustness of digital solutions across a wide range of client engagements.

Automation Assurance Specialist - Consultant (Digital Excellence)

Salary: 50,000 - 55,000 plus benefits, perks, healthcare options!
Client: Global IT Consultancy
Location: Either London, Manchester or Glasgow Office (Hybrid working)
Role type: Permanent, full-time

Note: Unlimited Training Budget For Any External Certifications You Wish To Achieve!

The Role

We are seeking an Automation Assurance Specialist (Consultant level) to join a high-performing Digital Excellence team delivering complex, technology-led transformation programmes. You will play a critical role in assuring the quality, reliability and robustness of digital solutions across a wide range of client engagements.

You will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining high-quality automated testing solutions, providing confidence that systems meet functional and non-functional requirements across accessibility, performance, security and integration.

This role offers exposure to a wide variety of technologies and large-scale, technically challenging projects, working within multidisciplinary engineering teams in agile environments.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deliver cross-functional engineering and assurance activities within small, collaborative teams
• Design, build and maintain clean, scalable and maintainable automation test suites
• Execute automated and manual testing across functional, integration and exploratory testing
• Embed test automation into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
• Assure technical delivery quality by working closely with engineers, designers and stakeholders
• Continuously improve testing practices, tools and processes
• Coach and mentor colleagues, sharing best practice and supporting team capability growth
• Contribute to innovation, inclusion, collaboration and self-organising team culture
• Support business development, internal initiatives and knowledge-sharing activities

Technology Exposure

You will gain experience across a broad technical landscape, including but not limited to:

• Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Kotlin
• Spring Boot and RESTful microservices
• Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, REST testing
• NoSQL databases
• Git-based version control systems

Your Profile

Essential experience:

• ISTQB Foundation certification (or equivalent experience)
• Strong experience in functional, integration, exploratory and manual testing
• Experience building and contributing to automation frameworks (Java or JavaScript)
• Hands-on experience with backend and frontend automated testing tools
• Experience working in agile delivery environments
• Confident using Git-based version control tools (GitHub, GitLab etc.)
• Ability to self-manage and proactively identify improvement areas

Desirable experience:

• Non-functional testing (Accessibility, Performance, Security)
• CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Docker for testing environments
• Maven for test execution
• Accessibility standards and test automation best practices
• Familiarity with the (url removed) Design System
• Experience applying structured evaluation methods, including AI evaluations

Please "Apply" or contact Aaron Perdesi on (phone number removed) to learn more!