Test Engineer - SC Cleared
You’ll work in an agile environment, building automation test solutions and embedding usability, accessibility, and security into services.
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Test Engineer
SC Cleared, or previously held SC Clearance with the ability to regain
Various locations, hybrid across the UK
Inside IR35
Who are we?
We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team. We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™.
What’s in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent. Want to know more? Read: https://distributed.com/about
About this role
Join us as a Test Engineer to support an exciting digital initiative, ensuring the quality of cutting-edge products. You’ll work in an agile environment, building automation test solutions and embedding usability, accessibility, and security into services. This role requires BPSS clearance and offers flexibility to work from any hub outside London.
Your Responsibilities
- Build and maintain robust automated test frameworks for UIs and APIs.
- Support CI/CD pipelines to run comprehensive tests and assure builds.
- Assess risks and adopt a context-driven approach to agile testing.
- Collaborate with engineers to solve problems and improve product quality.
- Report progress, manage defects, and challenge assumptions to drive excellence.
About You
We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise, and engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.
- Demonstrable skills in Java or JavaScript and software engineering practices.
- Experience with the testing lifecycle, from business needs to production.
- Knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, security, accessibility).
- A passionate advocate for quality, adaptable, and familiar with CI/CD principles.
- Bonus: Understanding of authentication methods (OAuth, OIDC, JWT).
About us
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
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- Department
- Elastic Team
- Locations
- Fully Remote
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Contract
Colleagues
Workplace & culture
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly.
The Company is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
About Distributed
We are Distributed: we help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our on-demand Elastic Teams.
Last year alone Distributed won 5 awards including 2 awards for growth, most disruptive startup in Startups 100, Winner in the Deloitte Fast 50 UK, a winner in the Red Herring Europe Top 100, and winner of a global award for Outstanding Reward & Recognition for remote working from The Omnis.
This year BT Digital signed a £30m deal with Distributed to accelerate its digital transformation and innovation agenda by rapidly bringing together multi-skilled digital teams.
We do things differently, we move fast, we are recognised as leaders in our sector, and we look after our people. We are a people company that uses technology to deliver beyond client expectations.
Join us if you want to be part of our Elastic Team community that’s shaping the future of freelance working..
Test Engineer - SC Cleared
You’ll work in an agile environment, building automation test solutions and embedding usability, accessibility, and security into services.
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