# Senior Automation Engineer (12-month contract)

Our client, a leading organisation within the banking sector, is looking for an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to join its Payments environment. This is an opportunity to work on automation initiatives supporting critical payment systems, improving application quality, streamlining processes and enabling continuous delivery. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing automation frameworks and solutions across front-end and back-end applications, building automated regression packs, integrating automated testing into development pipelines and generating comprehensive test reports. We are looking for someone with strong technical development capabilities who can take automation solutions from concept and design through to development, implementation and ongoing optimisation. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and implement automation frameworks, solutions and reusable components. Develop automated testing solutions covering front-end, back-end and end-to-end application functionality. Design, build, automate and maintain regression test packs for payment systems and applications. Automate regression pack execution to support appl

- **Id**: 3825472
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dearx-senior-automation-engineer-12-month-contract>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sandton, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T18:19:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T03:48:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5476
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 4506168
- **Name**: DeARX
- **Domain**: dearx.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dearx>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cypress** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Selenium** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T18:19:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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