QA Automation Test Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver and UI automation frameworks
• Proven experience designing and executing load, stress, and scalability tests
• Proficiency in one or more automation languages (Python, Java)
• Knowledge of distributed workload execution
• Understanding of multi-threading and parallelisation concepts
• Experience with REST API testing and validation
• Familiarity with Microsoft PowerBI, Fabric workloads, or similar analytical tools
• Strong attention to detail and analytical thinking
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Clear communicator able to articulate findings to engineering, delivery manager, and leadership teams
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a cross-functional environment
• Microsoft Power BI performance testing experience is desirable

Responsibilities

• Develop Selenium WebDriver scripts and test cases that simulate high-level user interactions across PowerBI Fabric experiences
• Build scalable automation flows that mimic report and dataset opening, navigation actions, and refresh events
• Create parameterized and data-driven scripts to vary user patterns, concurrency levels, and execution timing
• Develop regression test script pack
• Design and execute load, stress, and endurance tests specifically targeting PowerBI Fabric capacity limits
• Capture metrics such as response times, resource consumption, and capacity exhaustion behaviour
• Integrate Selenium tests with performance-oriented tools such as JMeter
• Configure distributed/parallel Selenium execution
• Ensure automation runs effectively at scale across multiple browsers and sessions

Technologies

• API
• Fabric
• Java
• JMeter
• Power BI
• Python
• REST
• Selenium
• UX UI Design
• LESS

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We are looking for a skilled QA Automation Test Engineer to join our team on a contract basis, working mainly remotely with occasional workshops in London. The successful candidate will design, build, and execute Selenium-based load-testing scripts to validate PowerBI Fabric capacity and visualization performance, scalability, and reliability. This role offers a competitive rate of up to £483 per day, umbrella inside IR35. Candidates must be SC eligible, with five years in the UK and no more than 28 days outside of the UK. We value attention to detail and analytical thinking, and we are committed to fostering a collaborative environment.

last updated 17 week of 2026