Senior Tester/QAT Automation Engineer - AWS/DevOps/CI/CD (SC
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Senior Tester/QAT Automation Engineer - AWS/DevOps/CI/CD SC or DV Cleared | Cloud-Native Engineering | AWS | Automation | Kubernetes
We are supporting a secure government engineering programme seeking a Senior Tester/QAT Automation Engineer to join a growing AWS cloud-native engineering team.
This is not a traditional manual testing role.
The requirement is much closer to a DevOps-aligned automation engineering position focused on improving deployment quality, automation maturity and delivery velocity across cloud-native engineering platforms.
The successful candidate will work closely alongside software engineers, DevOps specialists and platform teams within a heavily AWS-focused environment delivering microservices, event-driven systems and CI/CD-enabled engineering capability. Key responsibilities
- Designing and implementing automation testing frameworks
- Supporting CI/CD and deployment automation workflows
- Performing API, integration and contract testing across distributed systems
- Working closely with DevOps and engineering teams to improve release quality and deployment velocity
- Supporting cloud-native testing within AWS environments
- Validating microservices and event-driven architectures
- Embedding testing capability within Agile engineering teams
- Improving automation maturity and deployment confidence across engineering delivery
Core skills required
- Automation testing/QAT engineering
- AWS cloud environments
- CI/CD pipelines
- Python automation
- API and integration testing
- Microservices validation
- Kubernetes/containerised platforms
- Jenkins/GitLab CI/GitHub Actions
- DevOps and deployment automation awareness
- Agile engineering environments
Highly desirable
- Terraform
- EKS/ECS
- Kafka/streaming platforms
- Event-driven architecture
- Contract testing
- Infrastructure testing
- Security and compliance testing
- Experience within secure government environments
- Active SC, enhanced SC or DV clearance
Ideal background
The strongest candidates are likely to come from:
- cloud-native automation engineering,
- DevOps testing,
- SDET,
- platform QA,
- or engineering-led automation environments.
Candidates with purely traditional manual QA backgrounds are unlikely to align strongly to the environment. Technical environment
- AWS
- Terraform
- Kubernetes/EKS
- Python
- CI/CD pipelines
- Event-driven architecture
- API automation
- Distributed cloud-native systems
- DevOps tooling and deployment automation
This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly technical engineering function operating at the intersection of cloud-native delivery, automation engineering and modern government digital capability.
Requirements
- Automation testing/QAT engineering
- AWS cloud environments
- CI/CD pipelines
- Python automation
- API and integration testing
- Microservices validation
- Kubernetes/containerised platforms
- Jenkins/GitLab CI/GitHub Actions
- DevOps and deployment automation awareness
- Agile engineering environments
Highly desirable
- Terraform
- EKS/ECS
- Kafka/streaming platforms
- Event-driven architecture
- Contract testing
- Infrastructure testing
- Security and compliance testing
- Experience within secure government environments
- Active SC, enhanced SC or DV clearance
Ideal background
The strongest candidates are likely to come from:
- cloud-native automation engineering,
- DevOps testing,
- SDET,
- platform QA,
- or engineering-led automation environments.
Candidates with purely traditional manual QA backgrounds are unlikely to align strongly to the environment. Technical environment
- AWS
- Terraform
- Kubernetes/EKS
- Python
- CI/CD pipelines
- Event-driven architecture
- API automation
- Distributed cloud-native systems
- DevOps tooling and deployment automation
This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly technical engineering function operating at the intersection of cloud-native delivery, automation engineering and modern government digital capability.