Job Title: Automation Test Engineer
Contract Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Employer: Amber Labs Consultancy
Location: Hybrid – 1 day per week on-site (Manchester)
The Company
At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK technology consultancy that empowers autonomy, promotes experimentation, and enables rapid learning to deliver exceptional value to our clients. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do, with our cross-functional consultants, engineers, and analysts working together to shorten delivery times, minimise risk, and drive impactful results for high-profile government and commercial programmes.
Role Overview
Amber Labs Consultancy is seeking a skilled Automation Test Engineer to support a major public sector client on a 12-month fixed term contract. You will join a multidisciplinary, agile delivery team working with a public sector client.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in automation testing, with hands-on use of modern frameworks and tools.
- Experience designing, implementing, and executing automated tests across APIs, UI, and integration layers.
- A solid understanding of shift-left testing principles, including CI/CD pipelines and embedding quality early in the development lifecycle.
- Awareness of non-functional testing, including:
- Performance
- Security
- Accessibility
- Ability to contribute to shared engineering standards, including test strategy, tool selection, and best practices.
- Strong communication skills, with experience collaborating in agile, multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience with version control, code reviews, and collaborative engineering practices.
Desirable (Nice-to-Have) Skills
- Experience with cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, or similar).
- Exposure to containerisation or infrastructure-as-code.
- Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and operational testing concepts.
Skills Required
- Strong experience in automation testing
- Experience designing, implementing, and executing automated tests
- Solid understanding of shift-left testing principles
- Awareness of non-functional testing principles
- Strong communication skills
What We Do
Amber Labs is a partnership of highly-skilled consultants and technologists. We specialise in the evolution of Data Engineering, Cloud and Analytics. We focus on delivering value from our client’s data using innovative approaches that reduce risk and delivery time, and that we are constantly improving through R&D. Amber Labs was founded on three key principles: An employee first internal culture, through diverse investment and exciting opportunities for our team, and a partnership structure ensuring everyone has an opportunity to share in the success of Amber Labs. Persistent analysis to identify opportunities to develop artefacts, accelerators and automation that allow rapid deployment of highly-technical solutions to the cloud or on-premise for our clients. Consistent investment into our ADM (Amber Labs Delivery Methodology -underpinned by Agile Methodology) to ensure we maximise velocity, quality and value
