Senior Automation Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements

• Must be SC clearable
• 4 years experience in test automation, QA engineering or an SDET role
• Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Deep experience with Playwright, or Cypress with a genuine willingness to move across
• Experience testing distributed or event-driven systems
• Experience designing integration testing strategies across multiple services
• Experience building or introducing contract testing
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, ideally GitHub Actions
• Excellent communication skills
• Advantageous experience with Docker, MongoDB, Vitest, Jest, OAuth2/OIDC, or a background in compliance, KYC/AML or fintech

Responsibilities

• Own the overall testing strategy across multiple products
• Build a comprehensive end-to-end test suite in Playwright, covering critical user journeys and regression scenarios
• Keep CI pipelines fast and trusted
• Introduce contract testing using Pact or similar between APIs, microservices and event-driven components
• Build realistic integration environments using Docker, LocalStack and seeded MongoDB datasets
• Test complex asynchronous workflows, including batch processing, retries, dead-letter queues, idempotency and long-running operations
• Design reusable test data and automation frameworks
• Perform exploratory testing where needed
• Work closely with engineers to lift coverage across the development lifecycle

Technologies

• CI/CD
• Cypress
• Docker
• GitHub
• JavaScript
• Jest
• MongoDB
• Playwright
• TypeScript
• microservices

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We are a fast-growing intelligence business helping large organisations understand exactly who they are doing business with. Backed by recent Series A funding, we are scaling quickly with major projects already signed off. This is a rare opportunity to build our testing function from the ground up, shape the strategy, choose the frameworks, and define the quality culture from day one. You will join a small, high-trust engineering team with genuine ownership and very little bureaucracy, and you will have real influence over testing direction and tooling as we grow. The role is fully remote across the UK, with the wider team meeting in person once a quarter. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation or age.

last updated 28 week of 2026