Senior Test Automation Engineer

Test Automation Engineer Belfast | Hybrid | Permanent At a Glance Role:

Test Automation Engineer

Location:

Belfast (Hybrid)

Employment type:

Permanent, full-time Stack:

Playwright, Type Script, CI/CD The Company Our client is a high-growth global technology organisation currently building out its Belfast engineering function. The local team is established and operational, with structured hiring planned across technical and business functions. Growth here is measured and performance-led, with genuine long-term ambition to increase the ownership and capability of the Belfast centre.

The Role This is an engineering-led automation role sitting within a QA function responsible for building and maintaining robust automated test frameworks across a modern platform. You will work with Playwright and Type Script to enhance, extend, and maintain the automation framework, ensuring quality and reliability across the product suite. This is not a manual QA position. Technical depth and hands-on coding capability are required, and you will be expected to contribute to an existing framework from the outset with minimal ramp-up time.

What You'll Be Doing Develop and maintain automated test suites using Playwright Write automation scripts in Type Script to a high standard Contribute to and extend an existing automation framework Support CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure test coverage across new features Identify gaps in automation coverage and drive improvements to framework structure What You'll Bring Essential Strong commercial experience in test automation Proven, hands-on experience with Playwright Strong Type Script capability Solid understanding of automated testing principles and framework design Able to operate effectively in a dedicated QA and test automation capacity Nice to Have Development or full stack background Engineers transitioning from software development into automation will be considered, provided they are genuinely committed to a QA-focused career path.

This team is investing in long-term automation capability. Why Apply Modern automation stack built around Playwright and Type Script Established and growing Belfast technology function with real long-term investment Structured, performance-led expansion with increasing local ownership over time Strong engineering culture with an emphasis on quality and craft Opportunity to shape automation capability as the team scales Interested? Apply directly or reach out to Ryan Quinn at Ocho for a confidential conversation.

Skills:

Typescript SDET Playwright Benefits:
Bonus