Test Automation Engineer
Hybrid
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Freelance
04-04-2025
Job Specifications
On behalf of HM Land Registry, we are looking for a Test Automation Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 12 Months contract based Hybrid/ in UK wide.
Working as a contractor for HM Land Registry
Our ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity, and an open approach to data. Our award-winning digital team is the in-house directorate at the heart of our transformation into a digital, data driven organisation. We are playing a pivotal role in ensuring that we are able to respond swiftly to our current challenges. We are providing a robust and resilient technical infrastructure to support our workforce. We are enabling our customers to interact with us in increasingly digital and automated ways and delivering our transformation portfolio which will revolutionise the way that we operate and provide services.
Our Digital teams are at the core of our plans for digital transformation for the future. At HM Land Registry we have a vision of a fully connected, digital system for buying and selling property that enables a more secure and more efficient land registration process. By joining us in a digital role, you can be at the cutting edge of our work to revolutionise the way property and land is transacted in the UK, supporting our vision of a world-leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future.
At HM Land Registry, we’re passionate about developing and attracting the best talent. People are at the heart of our plans for the future, so we have established a ’community of practice’ for every profession within our directorate. We now have 15 communities in total, including software development, data science, and product management. These communities are groups of talented people who perform similar roles and, through regular meetups and online forums, both within HM Land Registry and across wider Government, share best practice, discuss challenges, and support each other - which means happier, more motivated people!
Find out more at: [1] www.youtube.com/embed/LhtHDdzOybA
As a Test Automation Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:
* Advocate best practice leading through practical examples and guidance
* Perform in depth reviews reporting quality improvements and successes
* Update and enhance technical practice and quality frameworks
* Work with teams to assist technical startup and overcome impediments
* Teach, mentor and be a role model for quality test implementation
* Be able to perform technical and business analysis that will underly technical solutions
* Innovate and generate tooling to assist testing tasks and potential future issues
* Be able to understand overall system process and architecture to understand issues and impact that may need to be considered
* Build relations and input into other practices to represent test community views and help build enhancements
Essential:
* Practitioner level experience of automated testing and automated test tools.
* Experience in Ruby.
* Strong experience in SQL.
* Practitioner in understanding environment needs and capabilities
* Practitioner in technical analysis. Absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions
* Practitioner in both functional and non-functional testing
* Experience in integration practices
* Experience in training and mentoring technical test skills
* Practitioner in technical breadth over a range of tools and techniques
Desirable:
* Openshift and cloud technologies
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Land Registry guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant
HM Land Registry guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".
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About the Company
Public Sector Resourcing (PSR) is a government-let framework, managed by AMS on behalf of Crown Commercial Services (CCS) for the provision of Contingent Labour, Statement of Work and Recruit, Train, Deploy services. PSR is the largest Managed Service Programme across Europe with circa 17,000 contract workers and is supported by over 500 employees split across AMS and our key partner Brook Street (part of the Manpower group). We are currently recruiting for various Government departments so if you are interested in worki... Know more
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