Senior QA Automation Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will provide technical leadership in building and evolving a scalable, reliable test automation capability. You will take ownership of automation strategy, frameworks, and quality practices across the delivery lifecycle, working closely with developers, DevOps, and product teams to embed quality from design through to production. You will be expected to influence engineering standards, mentor others, and ensure automated testing delivers fast, meaningful feedback aligned to business risk.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the automation framework and processes ensuring appropriate coverage across UI, API, integration, and regression layers
• Design, build, and maintain robust automation frameworks from the ground up, focusing on reusability, maintainability, and performance
• Act as a technical authority for test automation, setting standards, patterns, and best practices
• Partner with developers to embed quality early, contributing to acceptance criteria, testability, and design discussions
• Lead automation planning through risk‑based analysis, ensuring effort is focused where it matters most

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Senior Test Automation Engineer or equivalent role
• Strong programming skills in languages like Python, C#, or JavaScript for creating test scripts
• Proven experience designing, building and maintaining automation frameworks from the ground up
• Thorough hands‑on knowledge of automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, and test runners/frameworks
• Strong experience testing APIs and services using tools and libraries (e.g. REST clients, contract testing, Postman)

Flexible Working Patterns

• Hybrid working
• Working flexible hours – flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick‑up and drop‑offs

Diversity and Inclusion

We provide support or adjustments for applicants with disabilities or neurodiversity throughout our recruitment process. Information shared will be treated in confidence.

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