QA Automation Engineer Job London area,Greater London England UK,Software Development

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will work within a multidisciplinary team to build quality into complex digital services
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, developing and maintaining automated tests using Java. You will test APIs, user journeys and integrations across distributed services, providing reliable feedback throughout development and clear evidence to support release decisions
You will work closely with developers, Dev Ops engineers, business analysts, product owners and operational teams to understand requirements, identify risks and verify that business processes complete correctly. You will take ownership of automation quality, investigate failures and continually improve the reliability, coverage and maintainability of the test suites
Design, develop and maintain automated API, integration and end-to-end tests using Java, Serenity BDD, Cucumber, Selenium Web Driver and REST Assured
Contribute to reusable test components and maintainable automation frameworks, applying sound coding practices and participating in code reviews
Work with developers, business analysts and product owners to define testable acceptance criteria and appropriate positive, negative and boundary scenarios
Select the appropriate level of testing for each risk, balancing coverage, execution time and maintenance effort
Integrate and maintain automated tests within Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines, providing timely and actionable feedback
Test asynchronous workflows and interactions between services, including event processing, messaging, retries and failure recovery
Verify completed business outcomes through APIs, database checks and user journeys, including downstream processing and data consistency
Create and maintain repeatable test data, accounting for environment dependencies, test isolation and parallel execution
Investigate failures using application logs, API responses, database queries and pipeline results, distinguishing application defects from automation, data and environment issues
Improve suite reliability by addressing flaky tests, unnecessary duplication and gaps in regression coverage
Turn production defects and recurring incidents into repeatable automated regression scenarios
Perform targeted exploratory testing and contribute to performance, accessibility, security and operational readiness testing alongside relevant specialists
Maintain test coverage, execution records and release evidence in Jira/Zephyr, ensuring results are traceable to the relevant change, environment and release
Raise clear, reproducible defects and work with the team to triage, resolve and verify them
Communicate testing progress, outcomes, residual risks and coverage limitations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
A supportive and collaborative environment
Development access to Linked In Learning, a management development programme and training
Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Pizza Thursday monthly, weekly social in the office and commitment to charitable causes
Time off 25 days a year
Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
Benefits Platform offering various retail and leisure discounts

Experience managing defects, test execution and…