Contract Software Tester
Job description
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Contract Software Tester
Day Rate: £325-£350 per day
Duration: 4 months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Location: Hybrid Working. 1 day per week in London or Manchester office.
We are currently supporting a highly recognised end client in the search for a Contract Software Tester. This role will sit within an Agile delivery environment and play a key part in defining, driving, and implementing robust test strategies across complex digital products. The successful contract Software Tester will act as the QA representative within an agile squad, championing quality across the full delivery lifecycle and ensuring both functional and non-functional requirements are met to a high standard.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, communicate, and implement test strategies and approaches
- Collaborate with technical leads to understand requirements
- Build and contribute to automated test frameworks
- Identify, troubleshoot, and investigate critical defects and root causes
- Produce clear and concise test evidence and reporting
- Communicate status updates and risks to technical and delivery stakeholders
Essential Skills:
- Strong experience in automated RESTful API testing
- Hands-on experience configuring CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins)
- Strong understanding of coding practices and software engineering principles
- Excellent communication skills with experience managing cross-team issues
- JavaScript and Java programming experience
- Experience with Rest Assured and Cucumber
- Strong experience with Gatling and Scala
- AWS experience including Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and related services
- Proven Agile environment experience
Desirable Skills:
- Any Exposure to Node.js and Playwright
- Contract testing experience (PACT or Karate framework)
- Awareness of security testing practices
Due to the nature of the role, contractors must have recent commercial experience across all essential skills listed above to be considered. Please apply to the role for immediate consideration.
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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⭐ Highlight your RESTful API testing experience prominently as this is the first essential skill mentioned
📊 Quantify your automated testing achievements: 'Built 150+ API tests reducing manual effort by 70%'
🌐 Emphasise your AWS experience with specific services - Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch are explicitly required
🎯 Showcase your CI/CD pipeline configuration skills, particularly with Jenkins as it's specifically mentioned
🤝 Demonstrate your Agile squad experience and cross-team collaboration abilities
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- •Designed and implemented automated RESTful API test suites covering 200+ endpoints, reducing manual testing effort by 65% across 3 Agile squads
- •Configured Jenkins CI/CD pipelines integrating Rest Assured and Cucumber frameworks, achieving 95% test automation coverage for critical user journeys
- •Led performance testing strategy using Gatling and Scala, identifying bottlenecks in AWS Lambda functions that improved response times by 40%
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Spectrum IT's Contract Software Tester position represents exactly the type of challenging QA role I excel in, combining my expertise in RESTful API testing and AWS services with hands-on CI/CD pipeline configuration using Jenkins.
My background in automated testing frameworks and Agile delivery environments has equipped me with the technical depth and collaborative approach needed to champion quality across complex digital products while managing cross-team technical issues effectively.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you design an automated test strategy for a complex RESTful API?
- ›Explain how you would configure a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins for automated testing
- ›What approach would you take to performance testing using Gatling and Scala?
- ›How do you implement contract testing using PACT or Karate framework?
- ›Describe your experience with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in a testing context
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to troubleshoot a critical defect under pressure
- ›Describe a situation where you had to communicate complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders
- ›Give an example of how you championed quality within an Agile team
- ›Tell me about a time you had to collaborate with technical leads to understand complex requirements
- ›Describe a situation where you identified and resolved cross-team issues
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Tell me about a time you had to troubleshoot a critical defect under pressure
Describe a situation where you had to communicate complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders