# Lead Test Automation Engineer - SC required

Location: Remote (1 onsite meeting per month in London area) Duration: 12 month contract Rate: £82.50ph UMB (Inside IR35) Active SC clearance required! Role details: We are looking for an SC cleared Test Automation Specialist to join our defence client on a contract basis. The role will focus on developing robust automated testing solutions across web applications, APIs and cloud-based environments. Key Responsibilities: Design, build and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web UI and API testing using Playwright Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into clear Gherkin feature files in collaboration with Product Owners and Business Analysts Implement Cucumber step definitions, hooks and scenario outlines to support effective BDD testing Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps Automate REST API testing using tools such as Postman, Newman or REST Assured, covering authentication, payload validation and negative scenarios Validate back-end data using SQL to confirm that UI and API results match the system of record Investigate and resolve flaky tests through root-cause analysis, while managing repeatable

- **Id**: 4206098
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/matchtech-lead-test-automation-engineer-sc-required>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bristol, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T23:43:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T07:10:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2767
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2073484
- **Name**: Matchtech
- **Domain**: matchtech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/matchtech-com>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 38
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 59
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 82
- **Max**: 82
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: day
- **Usd annual**: 27000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TestRail** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **JMeter** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T23:43:31Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 3 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 59
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T08:51:24Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 27000
- **Is top pay**: no

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