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Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs.
It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 300 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.
We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.
About You:
You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you're comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into effective outcomes. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.
The Role:
We are looking for experienced Automation Test Engineers / SDET to work on projects with our clients from both the public and private sectors. You will have a testing background and be confident using your skills to run projects directly with clients with minimal supervision.
You will be a fundamental member of the team, responsible for designing, developing and delivering test solutions whilst supporting and developing other members of the team and fostering best practice, keeping up to date with industry standards and advances.
While most of our work can be done remotely, giving you the flexibility to work where you're most comfortable, we do expect all of our consultants to be open to travel as required by our clients, primarily to London. This role would therefore be best suited to those within a commutable distance of London.
Key Responsibilities:
Overseeing all aspects of developing, implementing, and maintaining automated test scripts using automation tools.
As part of this role, you'll verify the usability, functionality, performance, and scalability of our and our clients applications.
Constructing automation tools and expanding framework functionalities to accommodate unique team requirements.
Initiating and establishing processes for automation and performance monitoring.
Actively contributing to both our Quality Engineering teams and our clients in establishing Automation and Testing best practices for the organisation.
Collaborating with various teams to address their automation challenges and coordinating efforts with diverse teams to resolve performance test failures.
Key Skills & Experience:
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Must have great analytical and troubleshooting skills as well as thrive in a dynamic work environment.
In depth understanding of QA process and software development life-cycle.
Proven experience with current front-end testing frameworks and tools, like Cypress or Playwright.
Hands-on experience of building test automation frameworks from scratch.
Experience of API testing, ideally using RestAssured or SoapUI.
Expertise in establishing and executing testing tools, testing environments, and testing data throughout different stages of the testing process.
Experience of working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, and other QA team members, to design, develop and enhance automation frameworks.
Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for testing microservices in a containerised environment.
Automated API testing with Java (e.g. RestAssured / SoapUI)
Experience using collaborative tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar for test case management, documentation, and communication within Agile/Scrum teams.
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, including experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or other CI/CD tools for automated testing and deployment.
Understanding of testing microservices-based applications.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
Understanding of Accessibility testing
What We Offer:
25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
Enhanced Parental Leave
Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
Statutory & Contributory Pension
EAP with
Annual Away Days/Company Socials
Equality & Diversity:
Solirius Reply is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.
Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.
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