Test Automation Engineer
Belfast | Hybrid | Permanent
At a Glance
Role:Test Automation Engineer
Location:Belfast (Hybrid)
Employment type:Permanent, full-time
Stack:Playwright, TypeScript, CI/CD
The Company
Our client is a high-growth global technology organisation currently building out its Belfast engineering function. The local team is established and operational, with structured hiring planned across technical and business functions. Growth here is measured and performance-led, with genuine long-term ambition to increase the ownership and capability of the Belfast centre.
The Role
This is an engineering-led automation role sitting within a QA function responsible for building and maintaining robust automated test frameworks across a modern platform. You will work with Playwright and TypeScript to enhance, extend, and maintain the automation framework, ensuring quality and reliability across the product suite.
This is not a manual QA position. Technical depth and hands-on coding capability are required, and you will be expected to contribute to an existing framework from the outset with minimal ramp-up time.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop and maintain automated test suites using Playwright
- Write automation scripts in TypeScript to a high standard
- Contribute to and extend an existing automation framework
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure test coverage across new features
- Identify gaps in automation coverage and drive improvements to framework structure
What You’ll Bring
Essential
- Strong commercial experience in test automation
- Proven, hands-on experience with Playwright
- Strong TypeScript capability
- Solid understanding of automated testing principles and framework design
- Able to operate effectively in a dedicated QA and test automation capacity
Nice to Have
- Development or full stack background
Engineers transitioning from software development into automation will be considered, provided they are genuinely committed to a QA-focused career path. This team is investing in long-term automation capability.
Why Apply
- Modern automation stack built around Playwright and TypeScript
- Established and growing Belfast technology function with real long-term investment
- Structured, performance-led expansion with increasing local ownership over time
- Strong engineering culture with an emphasis on quality and craft
- Opportunity to shape automation capability as the team scales
Interested?
Apply directly or reach out to Ryan Quinn at Ocho for a confidential conversation.
Skills:Typescript SDET Playwright
Benefits:Bonus
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