Company Overview
We are a fast-moving technology company and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions worldwide. We believe everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. We need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.
Role Overview
The Senior QA Automation Engineer works closely with the other Engineers in the squad to ensure the product aligns with the roadmap and strategy, while collaborating with the QA Chapter to build out automation test frameworks and best practices. You will evangelise test automation, be hands‑on with initiatives, and champion our shift‑left strategy within the team.
Collaborating with the QA Chapter, you will design and create a suite of automation scripts, document test cases, and conduct functional and non‑functional testing across both performance and scalability as we support millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Champion automated testing
- Define and run exploratory and automated test cases
- Collaborate with squad Engineers to refine, design and deliver new product features
- Identify new areas of automation testing to improve quality
- Proactively improve processes with a shift‑left mindset and approach
- Manage quality gate releases in the squad
- Contribute to the wider QA strategy, architecture, and tooling across all products to ensure consistency
Qualifications
- Passionate about craft and eager to learn and adopt new technology
- Experience with tools and frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Junit, Postman, Saucelabs
- Thrives working as part of a close‑knit team and making decisions together to deliver valuable experience to customers
- Experience working within a fast‑paced agile environment
- Experience with shift‑left strategy
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Enjoys working with remote colleagues
- Good understanding of testing and the testing pyramid framework
- Understanding of manual and automation testing
- Knowledge of programming languages preferably .Net and Typescript
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, and other agile tooling
Bonus Points
- Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure
- Load testing with JMeter or Gatling
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker
- Knowledge of MongoDB
- TypeScript
- SwiftUI
- React Native
- Open‑source collaboration
Benefits
- £50,000-70,000 salary range
- Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)
- £800-€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’
- Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, with quarterly in‑person meetings in UK HQ
- 25 days holiday plus local bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Two half‑day wellbeing days
- Healthcare cash plan covering day‑to‑day healthcare costs
- Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support
- Income protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave package – 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- £50 monthly allowance to spend on personal preferences, supported by a Benifex card topped up each month
Eligibility
We are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require candidates to be based in the UK or Ireland.
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We are proud members of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
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We are a fast-moving technology company and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions worldwide. We believe everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. We need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.
Role Overview
The Senior QA Automation Engineer works closely with the other Engineers in the squad to ensure the product aligns with the roadmap and strategy, while collaborating with the QA Chapter to build out automation test frameworks and best practices. You will evangelise test automation, be hands‑on with initiatives, and champion our shift‑left strategy within the team.
Collaborating with the QA Chapter, you will design and create a suite of automation scripts, document test cases, and conduct functional and non‑functional testing across both performance and scalability as we support millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Champion automated testing
- Define and run exploratory and automated test cases
- Collaborate with squad Engineers to refine, design and deliver new product features
- Identify new areas of automation testing to improve quality
- Proactively improve processes with a shift‑left mindset and approach
- Manage quality gate releases in the squad
- Contribute to the wider QA strategy, architecture, and tooling across all products to ensure consistency
Qualifications
- Passionate about craft and eager to learn and adopt new technology
- Experience with tools and frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Junit, Postman, Saucelabs
- Thrives working as part of a close‑knit team and making decisions together to deliver valuable experience to customers
- Experience working within a fast‑paced agile environment
- Experience with shift‑left strategy
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Enjoys working with remote colleagues
- Good understanding of testing and the testing pyramid framework
- Understanding of manual and automation testing
- Knowledge of programming languages preferably .Net and Typescript
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, and other agile tooling
Bonus Points
- Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure
- Load testing with JMeter or Gatling
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker
- Knowledge of MongoDB
- TypeScript
- SwiftUI
- React Native
- Open‑source collaboration
Benefits
- £50,000-70,000 salary range
- Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)
- £800-€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’
- Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, with quarterly in‑person meetings in UK HQ
- 25 days holiday plus local bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Two half‑day wellbeing days
- Healthcare cash plan covering day‑to‑day healthcare costs
- Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support
- Income protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave package – 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- £50 monthly allowance to spend on personal preferences, supported by a Benifex card topped up each month
Eligibility
We are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require candidates to be based in the UK or Ireland.
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal‑opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We are proud members of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
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