Opus RS
SDET Engineer (contract)
SDET Engineer (contract) at Opus RS, based in Barking, London, paying £450 - £500 per day. This is a contract role with hybrid working.
- Pay
- £450 - £500 per day
- Hours and contract
- Contract · Hybrid
- Location
- Barking, London
- Closing date
- Sector
- QA Tester
Bang in line with the market for qa tester
Reference job-search/385/sdet-engineer-contract/it/barking/job
About the role
Up to: £500 per day, Outside IR35 | 6 months initial project | Hybrid (2 days on-site p/w, London)
Role Overview
The successful candidate will join our client's core engineering team, working directly with Data Engineering & AI teams to build and scale workflows across healthcare and life sciences. You'll help deliver enterprise-grade solutions for some of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medtech organisations, tackling complex data and workflow challenges with measurable business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement automated testing frameworks (SDET).
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Collaborate closely with AI Engineers and Data Engineers to deliver scalable solutions.
- Build, automate and support AI/ML and data platforms in AWS.
- Support deployment, monitoring and reliability of Agentic AI workflows.
Person Specification
- Hands-on AWS expertise.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong experience across DevOps, cloud infrastructure and automated testing.
- Good understanding of software testing, quality engineering and automation.
- Exposure to AI/LLM-based systems and modern data platforms.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.
Client Feedback: Required Skills & Experience
- Strong SDET and QA automation background.
- Hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
- Commercial experience working within AWS environments.
- Experience supporting cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of software delivery, testing and deployment practices.
- Previous experience within regulated or enterprise environments (e.g. banking, financial services) desirable.
Ideal Candidate
- Able to discuss infrastructure, architecture and automation in depth.
- Confident working across development, testing and operations teams.
- Proactive, hands-on and technically curious.
- Comfortable operating in highly technical engineering environments.
Please reach out to Adam Akhtar for further information
Reference: job-search/385/sdet-engineer-contract/it/barking/job · Posted 1 day ago · Closes 11 Nov 2026 · Listed via Opus RS
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