Job Description

Posted 2 hours ago

Developer-in-Test (SC Cleared)

Southend / Reading (Hybrid)

3 Month Rolling Contract

£450/day (Outside IR35)

Developer-in-Test needed with active SC Security Clearance and Java coding skills. 3 Month Rolling Contract based in either Southend (Essex) or Reading (Hybrid).

Hybrid Working – 3-4 days/week remote (WFH), and 1-2 days/week working on-site from the office. Start ASAP in March 2026.

A chance to work with a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specialising in Government projects:

Developer-in-Test / SDET with strong Java coding + test automation skills.

Government / (url removed) projects experience strongly preferred.

Test automation tools experience -eg- Selenium, Serenity or Cucumber.

Continuous Integration tools -eg- Jenkins, Stash, Hudson, Github.

Testing UI and Web Services systems including end-to-end and in isolation using Mocks.

Experience with large datasets + appreciation of data isolation in a multi-tenanted SAAS platform environments.

Writing / maintaining SQL insert, update + delete statements

Using Test Management tools like Jira for planning, test execution + reporting.

AWS Cloud environments + automated infrastructure.

Advantageous skills: JavaScript, JMeter scripting, Performance Testing, Agile/Scrum.

SC Security Clearance is essential for this position