About us
Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, is a technology consultancy and digital transformation partner that helps organisations solve complex challenges through strategy, design, engineering, and delivery.
We work closely with our clients to deliver secure, accessible, user-focused services that evolve with their needs. By combining deep technical expertise with people-centred design, we create solutions that deliver meaningful, lasting impact.
Our consultants partner directly with client teams, embedding into organisations to understand their goals, challenges, and users. This collaborative approach enables us to deliver tailored solutions that drive measurable outcomes across public and private sectors.
Past and present clients include the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UEFA, International Olympic Committee, and Mercedes-Benz. Our services span the full digital delivery lifecycle, including architecture, engineering, delivery management, user-centred design, business analysis, data, DevOps, and AI.
We operate as a collaborative and inclusive organisation that empowers our people to take ownership, innovate, and develop their expertise. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and social mobility, while creating opportunities for our teams to work on meaningful projects that deliver lasting impact
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.
The Role
We are looking for experienced QA Automation Testers/SDET on a perm basis to work with our major public sector clients. 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.
NOTE: This role will require 2 days per week working from Coventry, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This would therefore suit someone located in the Midlands.
Requirements
Key Requirements
- Designing and building maintainable test automation frameworks and suites
- Embedding test execution jobs into CI/CD pipelines
- Configuring and managing test environments and test data
- Performing exploratory and scripted manual and automated tests
- Reporting, prioritising and owning issues
Key Skills and Experience
- Expertise in .NET C# test development essential
- Experience with SpecFlow and ideally Serenity BDD
- Experience with Playwright
- Experience with RestSharp
- Knowledge of testing methodologies, tools and processes
- Commercial experience with Cloud services. (Azure desirable) beneficial
- Experience in working to Agile methodologies
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Bonus Scheme
- Private Healthcare Insurance
- 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 Help@Hand
- Gym Membership Benefits
- Cycle to Work and Electric Vehicle schemes
- Flexible Working
- Annual Away Days/Company Socials
Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals, where all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs.
Encouraging high social mobility is really important to us. We foster an inclusive culture by welcoming different perspectives, enabling equitable opportunities and promoting open dialogue. This commitment is reflected in initiatives such as our gender diversity group and our focus on mental health and wellbeing. Whatever stage you are at, you will find an environment where you can thrive.
Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments to be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive, enabling all candidates to demonstrate their skills, experience and potential.
Skills Required
- Expertise in .NET C# test development
- Experience with SpecFlow and ideally Serenity BDD
- Experience with Playwright
- Experience with RestSharp
- Knowledge of testing methodologies, tools and processes
- Commercial experience with Cloud services (Azure desirable)
- Experience in working to Agile methodologies
What We Do
We are an independent software and technology consultancy who pride ourselves on our ability to deliver complex technology solutions for our clients. We focus on understanding our client’s business and work with them to deliver change that makes their business more effective. Our multidisciplinary teams are made up of delivery experts, technology and software experts and user experience experts who have the drive, talent and creativity to take strategies from inception all the way through to business adoption. We provide the following services: 1) Technology Consulting To help get large technology projects off to the best possible start we can provide technical consultants who work with our clients to provide them with independent technical advice and guidance, supporting them with market analysis, IT strategy development, technical architecture and technical risk assessment. 2) Software Engineering We believe that working in a small, highly skilled, multi disciplined team is the most effective way of delivering quality software. At the core of our philosophy is the need for the entire team to have a shared common understanding of the product that they need to build. 3) Delivery Consulting Our delivery practice is focussed around you the client. By focussing on understanding your needs and your customers needs we will work with you to create a delivery approach, which delivers solutions that provide outstanding results for your business and your customers. 4) Business Consulting Bridging the gap between users, business stakeholders and digital delivery teams to truly understand goals and develop pragmatic, creative and effective solutions. Follow us on Twitter @SoliriusC
