Senior QA Automation Engineer - 12 Month FTC

Senior QA Engineer (Automation) – 12 Month Contract

A growing technology organisation in a regulated industry is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join an Agile delivery team. This position focuses on ensuring product quality through a mix of automation, manual testing, and test strategy ownership, with a strong emphasis on web and API testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test suites for web and API applications
• Design, review, and execute test cases based on acceptance criteria
• Identify gaps in coverage and enhance overall test strategy
• Perform manual, exploratory, integration, and negative testing
• Analyse and debug failures from automated runs within CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed quality across the SDLC
• Contribute to defect triage and prioritisation
• Support release readiness and Go/No-Go decisions
• Provide testing estimates for sprint planning
• Mentor and support junior QA engineers as needed

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong background in QA automation across web and API testing
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin
• Hands-on experience with tools such as:
  • Playwright (or similar web automation tools)
  • RestAssured (or similar API testing tools)
  • Cucumber / Allure (or equivalent frameworks)
  • Git and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
• Experience with test management tools (e.g. TestRail)
• Understanding of non-functional testing (performance, security)
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable

• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g. JMeter)
• Familiarity with code quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)
• Experience mentoring or leading QA activities
• ISTQB certification (or equivalent)

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