Lead Automation Engineer (Senior Test Automation Engineer - Grade F)

Lead Automation Engineer (Senior Test Automation Engineer - Grade F)

Location: London (TS) or Leeds
Contract: Temporary
Rate: £345/day (Umbrella)
Hybrid: 50% onsite required
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required
Positions: 2

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Automation Engineer to support a major transformation programme within a leading financial organisation.

This is a hands-on role focused on automation strategy, framework development, and delivering functional, API, integration, security and performance testing solutions.

Key Skills Required

• 8-10+ years' Test Automation experience

• Strong Karate Framework experience

• Automation framework development

• API testing using SOAP UI and Postman

• Security and performance testing experience (JMeter/LoadRunner)

• Enterprise integration testing (Kafka/IBM MQ)

• Scripting skills (Python and/or JavaScript)

• Experience mentoring or leading automation engineers

• Banking, financial services or regulated environment experience

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation frameworks

• Develop automated test solutions using Karate

• Deliver API, integration, security and performance testing

• Support automation strategy and best practices

• Mentor team members and collaborate with delivery teams

Candidates without strong Karate, API automation, performance testing, security testing, or enterprise integration experience will not be considered.