Manager, Automation Test Engineer, Engineering, Government and Public Sector

Overview

In this SDET role, you apply strong software development and quality engineering to deliver production-grade automation and tooling for government-focused projects. You will join a cross-functional engineering team to design scalable test frameworks, improve testability, and embed automated quality checks across CI/CD pipelines. Your work helps ensure secure, resilient services used by millions in mission-critical environments. This position offers opportunities to grow technically, mentor peers, and contribute to internal tools and accelerators, within a culture that values collaboration and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production-quality software, test infrastructure, and reusable tooling for APIs, microservices and front-end apps
• Apply modular design, clean code, design patterns, refactoring, and automated testing principles
• Build scalable automation frameworks to boost testability and delivery speed
• Embed automated quality checks in CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
• Collaborate on solution design and acceptance criteria to bake quality, security, performance and operability in from the start
• Diagnose defects across code, integrations, environments, and pipelines to identify root causes and implement durable improvements
• Utilise various testing techniques (unit, API, integration, end-to-end, exploratory, non-functional) to manage risk
• Identify technical dependencies, communicate delivery and quality risks, and mentor others in Deloitte’s tools and practices

Key requirements

• Active UK SC clearance or eligible (5+ years UK residency)
• Strong software development skills in Java, C#, Python or JavaScript/TypeScript with readable, maintainable code
• Solid understanding of OO/FP design, SOLID, design patterns, refactoring and code reviews
• Experience developing software, automation frameworks, libraries or tools for APIs, web/mobile/distributed services
• Experience in an agile cross-functional team and knowledge of SDLC
• Experience with Git including branching and PRs
• Experience designing automated tests at unit to end-to-end levels
• Familiarity with Selenium, RestAssured, Appium, Cucumber or Playwright
• Ability to diagnose defects via logs and debugging, and perform root-cause analysis
• Familiarity with generative AI fundamentals and related tooling
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

• curious
• collaborative
• hands-on
• Java
• C#
• Python

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