Senior Mobile Automation Engineer (SC Cleared)

Senior Mobile Automation Engineer (SC Cleared)

£450 per day | Outside IR35 | Remote First | Occasional London Travel

We're seeking an experienced Senior Mobile Automation Engineer to join a large-scale digital programme, helping shape and deliver modern mobile testing practices across multiple product teams.

Working closely with senior engineering and quality stakeholders, you'll play a key role in driving testing excellence, defining automation strategy, and ensuring high-quality mobile experiences across both iOS and Android platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement mobile automation testing strategies.
• Build, maintain and improve scalable automation frameworks.
• Drive quality engineering best practice across multiple teams.
• Deliver automated end-to-end, integration, regression and API testing.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, analysts and product stakeholders.
• Support and mentor other testers within the team.
• Champion continuous improvement across testing tools, processes and approaches.
• Influence engineering teams to adopt effective testing and quality practices.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Active SC Clearance.
• Strong commercial experience in mobile test automation.
• Proven experience testing both iOS and Android applications.
• Experience building or enhancing automation frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and/or Selenium.
• API testing experience.
• End-to-end testing experience within agile delivery environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

Technical Environment

Experience with some or all of the following would be advantageous:

• Playwright
• Selenium
• Maestro
• BrowserStack
• TypeScript
• Java
• Node.js
• Express
• AWS

Desirable Experience

• AI application testing.
• Validation of streamed AI responses.
• Performance and load testing.
• Creation of automation frameworks from scratch.
• Government or large-scale digital services experience.
• Consultancy or client-facing environments.

Contract Details

Day Rate: £450 per day
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Contract Length: Initial contract through to 31 December 2026
Location: Predominantly remote, with occasional travel to London as required
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required
Interview Process: Single-stage video interview

If you're an experienced mobile automation engineer with strong iOS and Android testing expertise and current SC clearance, we'd be interested in hearing from you.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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