Developer-in-Test (SC Cleared) at Syntax Consultancy Ltd, London, £450 per Day

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:

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• 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.