Developer-in-Test (SC Cleared)

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 / GOV.UK 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.