Role:
Senior QA Automation Engineer — 3 roles
Reports to:
Engineering leadership
Location:
Hybrid (mix of office/home); Base: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Job Description
As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will own squad-level test strategy and build/maintain automation for UI and API layers, including performance and regression coverage integrated into CI/CD. You’ll partner with engineers and Product to define acceptance criteria early, reduce flakiness, and keep pipelines healthy in Private Cloud/GCP environments.
Responsibilities
- Test Strategy & Ownership – Define risk-based test plans and coverage strategy across UI, API, and non-functional areas.
- Automation Engineering – Build and maintain suites using Playwright/Cypress/Selenium and API-level testing approaches.
- CI/CD Integration – Embed tests into pipelines, manage quality gates, and triage failures quickly.
- Performance & Reliability – Establish baselines, monitor regressions, and recommend targeted optimisations.
- Quality Collaboration – Drive shift-left practices; refine acceptance criteria with Product and engineers; ensure test data and environments are fit for purpose.
- Quality Reporting – Provide clear, actionable defect reports and quality metrics to inform release decisions.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with industry standard automation testing systems and API testing.
- Proven track record integrating automation within Private Cloud/GCP CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong exploratory testing discipline and ability to surface edge cases early.
- Skilled at maintaining stable, low-flakiness suites and clear triage workflows.
- Effective communicator able to influence quality outcomes across a squad.
