QA Engineer - Automation

QA Engineer - Automation Location: UK (Remote)

Duration: 3 months +

Rate: £256 per day Outside IR35

Looking to raise the bar on quality while keeping releases fast, stable, and genuinely trustworthy? Our Client is hiring a Senior QA Engineer - Automation to lead automated testing across API and broader quality layers, helping engineering teams build a culture where quality is part of everyday delivery.

What you'll be doing:

• Define and evolve the automation approach for your product area (API, UI, contract, component and more)
• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks and scripts that scale across teams
• Drive continuous improvement-making frameworks cleaner, faster, and easier for others to use
• Integrate automation into continuous delivery pipelines and optimise stable, deterministic runs
• Investigate flaky tests, eliminate root causes, and strengthen reliability standards
• Provide meaningful reporting on real risks (not just raw figures) to QA leadership
• Lead by example through code reviews, mentorship, and short learning sessions for QA/SDET engineers
• Build reusable utilities, components and libraries to improve efficiency and maintainability
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps engineers to embed testing into delivery
• Ensure alignment with compliance and security requirements relevant to healthcare data systems

What you'll bring:

• Strong experience in software testing, with a proven automation background
• Proven expertise designing and maintaining automation frameworks and test scripts
• Hands-on automation experience across tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or UFT (and/or similar)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps pipelines)
• Strong programming proficiency in Java and Python
• Solid understanding of SDLC/STLC and Agile ways of working
• Ability to troubleshoot complex automation failures and drive corrective actions
• Confidence leading automation standards and best practices across QA teams

Additional information:

• Pay: Outside IR35, remote working
• Start: 3 months initially, with potential extensions if demand continues
• You'll use your own laptop (make/model not specified)
• BPSS is required (pay for your own BPSS)

If you're excited by the challenge of building reliable automation that improves quality feedback loops end-to-end, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to be considered for this remote Senior QA Engineer - Automation opportunity.

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