Automation Engineer

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 DOE

Location: Remote, office-based or hybrid - whatever works best for you.

We’re looking for an Automation Engineer to join our Quality Engineering Team, designing and building automation solutions across a range of clients, technologies and challenges.

You won’t be working on the same product or maintaining the same test suite indefinitely. One project might mean building an automation framework from the ground up, while another could involve improving an existing approach, integrating automation into a delivery pipeline or solving a particular technical challenge.

You’ll work with our Lead Automation Engineer, Technical Services Director and wider Quality Engineering Team. As you develop in the role, there’ll be opportunities to take on more complex technical work, greater ownership and more client responsibility, with the opportunity to progress towards a Senior Automation Engineer role.

You’ll help our clients get more value from automation - building solutions that are reliable, maintainable and appropriate for the problem they’re trying to solve.

On a typical project, you might:

Design, build and maintain automated tests, frameworks and reusable testing components.

Work with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, depending on the needs of the project.

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, Git Hub Actions and Azure Dev Ops.

Write clean, maintainable code, contribute to code reviews and investigate failures to improve the reliability of automated testing.

Work with testers, developers and clients to understand what they need and identify where automation can add value.

Contribute to technical discovery, project planning and estimates.

Apply and develop your experience in areas such as API and integration testing, working alongside our Performance Testing Team where our work overlaps.

Explore how new tools and approaches, including AI-assisted development and testing, can be used to solve real problems and improve how we work.

You’ll already have hands-on experience with test automation and be comfortable writing automated tests, working within existing frameworks and getting into the details when things don’t go as expected.

You don’t need to be an expert in every tool we use or have experience in every area we work in. We’re looking for someone with a solid foundation in automation who wants to broaden their technical experience, work across different challenges and take on more responsibility over time.

Here’s what we think would set you up well for the role:

Hands-on experience with one or more automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress or Selenium.

Experience working with automation frameworks and an understanding of how they’re structured and maintained.

Experience with API testing, ideally REST and JSON, using tools such as Postman or Bruno.

A good working understanding of Git and source control.

An understanding of CI/CD and how automated testing fits into a development pipeline.

Confidence investigating failures, working through problems and improving test reliability.

Experience working collaboratively with developers, testers and other technical teams.

Experience with cloud platforms, mobile automation, performance testing, security testing or AI-assisted development would be useful but isn’t essential.

Your technical skills matter, but so does how you approach your work. We’re looking for someone who’s curious, enjoys solving problems and wants to keep developing skills.

You’ll be someone who:

Likes getting into the details to understand how things work and why they don’t.

Takes ownership of your work and cares about building automation that’s…