Solirius Reply

Automation Tester (Front End) - (Security Cleared Or Previously Held SC)

Solirius Reply  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  5 hours ago
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Job Description

About Us:

Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, is a technology consultancy and digital transformation partner that helps organisations solve complex challenges through strategy, design, engineering, and delivery.

We work closely with our clients to deliver secure, accessible, user-focused services that evolve with their needs. By combining deep technical expertise with people-centred design, we create solutions that deliver meaningful, lasting impact.

Our consultants partner directly with client teams, embedding into organisations to understand their goals, challenges, and users. This collaborative approach enables us to deliver tailored solutions that drive measurable outcomes across public and private sectors.

Past and present clients include the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UEFA, International Olympic Committee, and Mercedes-Benz. Our services span the full digital delivery lifecycle, including architecture, engineering, delivery management, user-centred design, business analysis, data, DevOps, and AI.

We operate as a collaborative and inclusive organisation that empowers our people to take ownership, innovate, and develop their expertise. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and social mobility, while creating opportunities for our teams to work on meaningful projects that deliver lasting impact.

The Role:

We are looking for experienced Automation Test Engineers / SDET to work on projects with our clients from both the public and private sectors. You will have a testing background and be confident using your skills to run projects directly with clients with minimal supervision.

You will be a fundamental member of the team, responsible for designing, developing and delivering test solutions whilst supporting and developing other members of the team and fostering best practice, keeping up to date with industry standards and advances.

While most of our work can be done remotely, giving you the flexibility to work where you’re most comfortable, we do expect all of our consultants to be open to travel as required by our clients, primarily to London. This role would therefore be best suited to those within a commutable distance of London.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

  • Overseeing all aspects of developing, implementing, and maintaining automated test scripts using automation tools.
  • As part of this role, you'll verify the usability, functionality, performance, and scalability of our and our clients applications.
  • Constructing automation tools and expanding framework functionalities to accommodate unique team requirements.
  • Initiating and establishing processes for automation and performance monitoring.
  • Actively contributing to both our Quality Engineering teams and our clients in establishing Automation and Testing best practices for the organisation.
  • Collaborating with various teams to address their automation challenges and coordinating efforts with diverse teams to resolve performance test failures.

Key Skills & Experience:

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Must have great analytical and troubleshooting skills as well as thrive in a dynamic work environment.
  • In depth understanding of QA process and software development life-cycle.
  • Proven experience with current front-end testing frameworks and tools, like Cypress or Playwright.
  • Hands-on experience of building test automation frameworks from scratch.
  • Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript (3+years).
  • Experience testing web applications across multiple browsers and operating systems including mobile.
  • Experience of API testing, ideally using RestAssured or SoapUI.
  • Expertise in establishing and executing testing tools, testing environments, and testing data throughout different stages of the testing process.
  • Experience of working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, and other QA team members, to design, develop and enhance automation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for testing microservices in a containerised environment.
  • Automated API testing with Java (e.g. RestAssured / SoapUI)
  • Experience using collaborative tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar for test case management, documentation, and communication within Agile/Scrum teams.
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, including experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or other CI/CD tools for automated testing and deployment.
  • Understanding of testing microservices-based applications.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
  • Understanding of Accessibility testing.

Benefits

What We Offer:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Bonus Scheme
  • Private Healthcare Insurance
  • 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
  • Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
  • Contributory Pension
  • EAP with Help@Hand
  • Gym Membership Benefits
  • Flexible Benefits Allowance
  • Cycle to Work and Electric Vehicle schemes
  • Flexible Working
  • Annual Away Days/Company Socials

Diversity and Inclusion

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals, where all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs.

Encouraging high social mobility is really important to us. We foster an inclusive culture by welcoming different perspectives, enabling equitable opportunities and promoting open dialogue. This commitment is reflected in initiatives such as our gender diversity group and our focus on mental health and wellbeing. Whatever stage you are at, you will find an environment where you can thrive.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments to be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive, enabling all candidates to demonstrate their skills, experience and potential.

Solirius Reply

About Solirius Reply

Since 2007, we’ve helped organisations across the public and private sector simplify complex technology problems through people-centred solutions. We focus on understanding our client’s unique context and work with them to deliver change that drives real business value.

We are now part of the Reply Group, providing access to a broad network of digital and data specialists and global IT partnerships, expanding our ability to deliver innovative solutions at scale.

Our multidisciplinary teams are made up of delivery, technology, software and user experience experts who take strategies from inception through to business adoption, ensuring solutions not only work, but work for the people who use them.

We provide the following services:

1) Technology Consulting

To help get large technology projects off to the best possible start we can provide technical consultants who work with our clients to provide them with independent technical advice and guidance, supporting them with market analysis, IT strategy development, technical architecture and technical risk assessment.

2) Software Engineering

We believe that working in a small, highly skilled, multi disciplined team is the most effective way of delivering quality software. At the core of our philosophy is the need for the entire team to have a shared common understanding of the product that they need to build.

3) Delivery Consulting

Our delivery practice is focussed around you the client. By focussing on understanding your needs and your customers needs we will work with you to create a delivery approach, which delivers solutions that provide outstanding results for your business and your customers.

4) Business Consulting

Bridging the gap between users, business stakeholders and digital delivery teams to truly understand goals and develop pragmatic, creative and effective solutions.

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Industry
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Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
2007
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