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# Senior Test Engineer

- **Company:** Scott Logic
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Automation of Tests, Selenium, SoapUI, Cucumber (Software)
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840588468-senior-test-engineer

## About the Role

* A deep love for the craft of Testing
 * Experience on large scale or complex Web Application and or API Testing
 * Experience in Automation testing with technologies such as; Selenium, Cucumber, SoapUI
 * Strong collaboration and communication techniques.
 * Experience in an Agile environment
 * Comprehensive knowledge of the fundamentals of testing in a context-driven way.
 * A desire to learn new technologies and approaches.

## Description

This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to be involved in the full development lifecycle, delivering mission-critical projects for high-profile global organisations. You'll typically work in small, tight-knitted multidisciplinary teams, decoding tough software problems. We like our teams to have high levels of freedom and value collaboration and pragmatism.


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