Who are Benifex?
We are a fast-moving technology company and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, 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 in more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.
Why should you apply?
- Challenge: Implementing a shift-left quality strategy and this is a key hire to bring other teams along.
- Impact: Drive a quality transformation in Engineering and collaborate with other teams to deliver.
- Mission: A key pillar of our global growth plan is automation and this role is critical to delivering that pillar moving forward.
- Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards.
- Work for a profitable, fast‑growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space.
Benefits
- £50,000-70,000 salary.
- Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.).
- £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.
- Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you; only ask to visit our UK HQ once a quarter.
- 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays.
- Your birthday off.
- Two half‑day wellbeing days.
- Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day‑to‑day healthcare.
- 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 whatever takes your fancy; your own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month.
We require people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position and are not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Role Overview
As a Senior QA Automation Engineer you will work closely with the other Engineers in the squad to ensure the product evolves to meet the overall roadmap and strategy, and work closely with the QA Chapter to build out our automation test frameworks and best practices.
You will evangelise test automation within the squads, be hands‑on with test automation initiatives and play a crucial role in supporting our agile software development lifecycle. You will also 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 performance and scalability for a global user base.
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 on quality mindset and approach.
- Manage quality gates releases in the squad.
- Contribute to the wider QA strategy, architecture, and tooling across all products to ensure consistency.
What are we looking for?
- Passionate about your craft and excited to learn and adopt new technology.
- Familiarity with tools and frameworks – Cypress or Selenium, Playwright, JUnit, Postman, Sauce Labs.
- Thrives working as part of a close-knit team, making decisions together to deliver the most valuable experience to our customers.
- Experience working within a fast‑paced agile environment.
- Experience with shift-left strategy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Enjoy working with remote colleagues.
- Good understanding of testing and the testing pyramid framework.
- Understanding of manual and automation testing.
- Knowledge of programming languages ideally .NET, TypeScript.
- Experience using Jira, Confluence and other agile tooling.
Bonus points for
- Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure.
- Load testing with JMeter or Gatling.
- Kubernetes or Docker.
- MongoDB.
- TypeScript.
- SwiftUI.
- React Native.
- Open‑source collaboration.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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 believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success.
We are a member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
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