# Automation Test Engineer

About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter. About the Role We are looking for automation-first Test Engineers to join agile teams building public sector digital services. You will design and maintain test frameworks, not just run tests, with a strong focus on accessibility and quality across APIs and cloud-native systems. What you will do Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks, with Playwright as the main tool. Automate API testing using Rest Assured, Postman and Swagger. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub or GitLab). Write BDD scenarios using Cucumber, SpecFlow or Reqnroll. Run functional, integration, end-to-end, regression and acceptance t

- **Id**: 3876105
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/scrumconnect-consulting-automation-test-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T16:21:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T03:33:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3038
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 3861039
- **Name**: Scrumconnect Consulting
- **Domain**: scrumconnect.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/scrumconnect>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Zoho Recruit

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.643
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cucumber** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **JMeter** — Optional: no
- **k6** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Swagger** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Jira** — Optional: yes
- **Kibana** — Optional: yes
- **Lighthouse** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:21:49Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 2; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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