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Role: Automated Test Developer / SDET
We are looking for an experienced Automated Test Developer / SDET to join the QA team. The successful candidate will maintain and extend an enterprise-grade.NET test automation framework built on Reqnroll (BDD) and Microsoft Playwright on.NET 8. The role sits within a cross-functional delivery team working on the Microsoft Dynamics 365-based application for council tax property assessment. The candidate will work closely with Functional Testers, developers, BAs, and DevOps engineers to embed automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline and shift testing left across the delivery lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and extend the Reqnroll (SpecFlow) BDD automation framework written in C# /.NET 8 using Microsoft Playwright
- Write and review Gherkin feature files, step definitions, and page objects to support new and changed functionality
- Ensure automated tests are submitted alongside pull requests for new features - contributing to a shift-left testing model
- Investigate and resolve test flakiness - replacing hard sleeps with condition-based waits, standardising step definitions, eliminating duplicate bindings
- Maintain and improve the Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline - test result publishing, environment switching, and PR gate configuration
- Triage pipeline failures and distinguish test failures from environment or infrastructure issues
- Work with the DevOps team to configure and maintain the agent pool
- Manage test data in Excel and database - ensuring data integrity and environment isolation between SIT, UAT, and FAT
- Participate in sprint ceremonies - providing test estimates, flagging automation risk, and contributing to Definition of Done
- Mentor junior QA team members on framework usage, Gherkin best practices, and Playwright
- Contribute to the Ways of Working improvement programme - defining PR gate criteria and embedding tests into the delivery pipeline
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Technical Skills - Essential
Test Automation
- C# (.NET 8) - Solid hands-on C# experience - OOP, generics, async/await, LINQ
- Playwright - Hands-on experience with
Microsoft.Playwright- locators, auto-wait, trace viewer, assertions (Expect), async/await patterns - Reqnroll or SpecFlow - Experience writing and maintaining BDD feature files, step definitions, and hooks in a .NET context
- Gherkin / BDD - Ability to write clear, readable Gherkin scenarios - correct use of
Given/When/Then,Background:,Scenario Outline - NUnit or xUnit - Test framework experience in a.NET context
- Page Object Model - Strong POM implementation - separation of locators and functions, reusable components
CI/CD and DevOps
- Azure DevOps - Pipeline authoring in YAML -
VSTest,PublishTestResults, variable groups, agent pool configuration - Git - Branch strategy, PR workflow, commit hygiene
- NuGet Package management - Version control, dependency resolution
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Supporting Skills
- REST API testing - Experience with RestSharp or similar - cookie-based auth, GET/POST/PUT, response validation
- Excel test data management - EPPlus or similar - reading parameterised test data from Excel sheets
- SQL / database - Ability to write and validate SQL queries for test data retrieval and assertion
- Serilog or similar logging - Structured logging in a test context
Desirable Skills
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 - Experience automating D365 CRM - iframe handling, BPF stages, lookup fields, command bar interactions
- Selenium WebDriver - Prior Selenium experience - useful for understanding existing test patterns and diagnosing legacy issues
- Azure AD / OAuth - Understanding of session tokens, re-authentication popups, service account configuration for pipelines
- Accessibility testing - Axe integration or similar -
a11ytest execution - PostgreSQL / Npgsql - Database query execution against Azure-hosted PostgreSQL
- PDF evidence generation - PDF-based screenshot capture and evidence trail (PdfSharp or similar)
- AutoIt - Windows automation for file upload dialogs
- PowerShell - Pipeline scripting - config file manipulation, Azure CLI commands
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