Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

This organisation sits at the intersection of technology, data, and global education — building platforms that inform decision-making at the highest levels. Quality matters here, and this role plays a key part in ensuring complex, high-traffic digital products perform exactly as they should.

• Location: Central London (hybrid working)
• Package: Competitive salary + benefits
• Industry: Education Technology / Data & Analytics

• Owning the quality of large-scale web platforms and subscription-based data products
• Designing, building, and maintaining automated test suites across UI, API, and integration layers
• Testing new features as they’re developed and feeding back quickly to engineering teams
• Creating robust test scenarios for complex permission and access models
• Managing and maintaining test data so environments closely reflect real-world use
• Working closely with developers, designers, and product managers in an agile squad
• Supporting CI/CD pipelines with fast, reliable, and maintainable automated tests
• Identifying, tracking, and resolving defects in collaboration with engineers
• Championing quality standards through test code reviews and best-practice advocacy

• Strong experience with QA automation for modern web applications
• Hands‑on experience with tools such as Cypress, Playwright, Jest, or similar
• Knowledge of test strategy across unit, integration, API, and end‑to‑end testing
• CI/CD experience and integrating automated tests into pipelines

• Work on well‑known, high‑impact digital products used globally
• Join a collaborative, cross‑functional engineering culture that values quality
• Real influence over testing strategy, tooling, and ways of working
• Exposure to complex, interesting technical challenges rather than repetitive testing
• A team that supports learning, knowledge‑sharing, and continuous improvement
• Flexible working with a strong focus on outcomes, not presenteeism

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