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# Test Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Advanced Resource Managers
- **Location:** Bristol, United Kingdom
- **Salary:** £174,720
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Testrail
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.arm.co.uk/job-application/?job_id=131226_1794384786

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining end-to-end automation frameworks in Playwright (TypeScript or Java), including fixtures, Page Object Model, and parallel cross-browser execution
 * Proficiency in at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C# or Python
 * Solid understanding of functional, regression, integration, smoke and end-to-end testing
 * Experience with Git and working in Agile/Scrum teams
 * Proven experience writing BDD scenarios in Gherkin and implementing Cucumber step definitions, hooks and scenario outlines
 * Experience managing test cases, test runs and results reporting in TestRail, including traceability back to requirements
 * Practical experience testing in and integrating with AWS environments (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), including running automated suites against cloud deployments

Desired Skills

 * Docker and Kubernetes for containerised test execution
 * Performance testing with JMeter
 * Accessibility (WCAG)
 * AWS certification

## Description

* Design, build, and own scalable automation frameworks for web UI and API testing
 * Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into clear Gherkin feature files in collaboration with Product Owners and BAs
 * Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps) as quality gates on every build and pull request
 * Automate REST API testing using tools such as Postman/Newman or REST Assured, covering authentication, payload validation and negative cases
 * Validate back-end data with SQL to confirm UI and API results match the system of record
 * Investigate and eliminate flaky tests through root-cause analysis rather than retries
 * Manage test data strategies that keep runs repeatable and isolated across environments
 * Triage, document and track defects through to resolution, and report quality metrics and release readiness to stakeholders