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Location(s): BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber, and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect, and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces, and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Job Title: Test Automation Engineer
Location: Leeds, hybrid - You will be required to go onto the Leeds office 1-2 days per week, travel to other sites will also be a necessity
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Grade: GG09 - GG10
Referral Bonus: 5000
What you’ll be doing
- Design and build reusable automated test solutions that support continuous product evolution
- Collaborate with developers to shape clean, testable code from the outset
- Partner with platform engineers to integrate testing into modern Continuous Delivery pipelines
- Analyse requirements and create meaningful, high-impact test cases (functional, performance, and security)
- Contribute to shared learning by reviewing test artefacts and supporting peers
- Investigate and overcome challenges to deliver quality outcomes on time—without compromising standards
- Take ownership of test results—refining and improving test suites as products evolve
- Advocate for quality by ensuring appropriate unit and integration testing coverage
- Use exploratory testing techniques when needed to uncover deeper insights
- Clearly communicate how features are tested, building shared understanding across engineering teams
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Your skills and experiences
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Cucumber)
- Familiarity with API testing tools (e.g. REST Assured)
- Experience testing user interfaces and large datasets
- Working knowledge of Java and SQL
Other Desirable Skills:
- Collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub
- Exposure to BDD / TDD practices
- Awareness of accessibility standards and inclusive design
- Experience or interest in AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office, or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
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By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate, and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organizational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences, and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realize individual and organizational potential.
Division overview: Government
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defense industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.
As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.
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