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We work closely with organisations to help them accelerate value delivery and create outstanding customer experiences. Our purpose is simple: to empower organisations to make a real difference for people, society, and the planet through technology that’s efficient, user-friendly, and solves problems fast.\nAt Burendo, we believe that together, we can achieve incredible things.\nWhat sets us apart is how we work. We pride ourselves on having a pragmatic attitude to delivery-we think big, plan practically, adapt quickly, and always focus on results, no matter how complex the challenge. We’re passionate about making great things happen by embracing innovation, challenging the status quo, and fostering collaboration at every step. At Burendo, caring for people is at the heart of what we do. We value partnerships, listen to different viewpoints, and believe in treating everyone fairly. And, we love to share what we learn-using our expertise to help others grow and empowering organisations to succeed in the long term.\nYou will work within an L2/L3 managed service team supporting business-critical applications across multiple technologies and cloud platforms, participating in on-call support and leading technical investigations into production issues.\nRequirements\nEssential behaviours\nThese are the most important things to us, we can teach skills, but behaviours are much harder to teach.\nAn analytical and questioning mind, rather than taking things at face value\nAble to be pragmatic when needed, understanding the difference between quality and meeting release deadlines\nA complete focus on quality at all levels in the software development life cycle\nA great communicator who can have conversations with both technical and non-technical people, fluent in English\nA test-first mindset, rather than sticking rigidly to specific methodologies\nA focus on testing early and testing often\nAn understanding of the need to push testing close to the code and a strong desire to create quick feedback cycles\nStrong leadership skills, both internally and with clients\nHolistic thinking with a focus on small, intricate details\nPassionate about all things mobile and apps\nEssential skills\nYou’ll need some skills to help you pick the role up quickly, but it’s not a long list.\nExperience creating test strategies and collaborating with people to achieve this\nExposure to CI/CD pipelines and experience of continuous testing\nAbility to understand and debug code using IDEs such as Visual Studio or IntelliJ\nExperienced in API testing using tools such as Postman or JMeter\nAn understanding of behavioural driven development (BDD) and its benefits and drawbacks\nExperience of source code management\nAn understanding of and ability to influence non-functional requirements\nHands-on experience in testing mobile apps\nExperience instructing, mentoring and coaching others to develop a QA mindset\nComfortable using AI/LLM tooling in testing workflows, with the judgement to know when to trust or override its output\nExposure to mobile and API automation tools such as Maestro, Playwright, or Karate, or equivalent frameworks\nWorking knowledge of unit testing tools for scripting languages such as MochaJS or Jest\nAn ability to write automation in at least one of Python, JavaScript, Java or C#\nExperience working with UI automation tools such as Selenium or Cypress\nDesirable skills\nThese are the little bit extra, cherry-on-top skills that will help you stand out. 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You and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation\nAs a proud supporter of the Armed Forces Covenant, we welcome all applications from members of the Armed Forces Community.\n#LI-Hybrid #LI-MS","description_format":"text","description_chars":5465,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T14:56:58Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-23T17:22:30Z"}],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/burendo-senior-test-engineer-automation-managed-service","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/burendo-senior-test-engineer-automation-managed-service.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T20:10:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}