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Automation Engineer
Role: Senior Test Automation Engineer
Location: Bolton Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Salary: £45,000–£55,000 + Excellent Benefits
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Automation Engineer to join an established software engineering team developing a large-scale, business-critical platform. The successful candidate will take ownership of designing and building a modern automation framework from the ground up, helping to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of a complex distributed system. Working alongside experienced software engineers, architects, and DevOps professionals, they will play a key role in embedding automation throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
This position would suit someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, building scalable automation frameworks, and working with modern cloud technologies.
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Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Design and develop a C#-based test automation framework from scratch.
- Develop automated tests for APIs and service-level functionality.
- Validate asynchronous and event-driven workflows across distributed services.
- Test complex end-to-end business processes.
- Verify data integrity across relational and NoSQL databases.
- Validate service contracts and data transformations.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Support software quality across Development, Test, Staging, and Production environments.
- Investigate and troubleshoot complex cross-service issues.
- Continuously improve automation coverage, reliability, and performance.
- Ensure clear reporting, traceability, and auditability of automated test execution.
Skills & Experience
Applicants should have:
- Strong commercial experience with C#/.NET test automation.
- Proven experience building automation frameworks from the ground up.
- Experience testing distributed or microservices-based applications.
- Strong API and HTTP testing experience.
- Experience working with event-driven or message-based architectures.
- Strong SQL skills, including complex queries and data validation.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using NUnit or MSTest.
- Experience with HttpClient or RestSharp.
- Experience working within containerised or virtualised environments.
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Salary & Benefits
- Hybrid working.
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Company pension.
- Share options scheme.
- Free on-site parking.
- Opportunity to work with modern technologies on a large-scale platform within a collaborative engineering environment.
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