Automation Test Specialist (Minerva VAT TxR)
Contract Mid-Senior LevelJob Overview
Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: October 05, 2026
Work set up: Hybrid (SC clearance required)
Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an Automation Test Specialist to support the Minerva VAT TxR programme. The project aims to unify RSDD APIs TXR002 and ADE into a single central calculations data provider, reducing service complexity and streamlining change management across impacted domains. The role will join a new Scrum team within the Minerva Platform to deliver Ingestion and Risking capabilities within the SAS Platform including IDP, with a focus on automated testing across SAS Viya 4 applications and data pipelines.
What you will do:
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting as part of a cross-functional Scrum team.
- Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications including UI-based Visual Analytics and Intelligent Decisioning, as well as integration testing of data pipelines.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts using frameworks such as Selenium, PyTest and JUnit, integrating them into CI and CD pipelines.
- Ensure appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical requirements.
- Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers and Business Analysts to align test coverage with business requirements and technical specifications.
- Confirm and implement the test data strategy to support automated testing activities.
- Maintain and evolve the automation test suite to support regression, performance and integration testing.
- Support integration of automated testing within Git-based CI and CD pipelines including Jenkins and GitLab CI.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues within test environments including SAS Viya containerised deployments using OpenShift and Kubernetes.
- Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies aligned with Enterprise Architecture integration patterns.