Senior QA Automation Engineer - 12 Month FTC

Senior QA Automation Engineer (Playwright) – 12 Month FTC

A growing technology organisation in a regulated industry is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join an Agile delivery team. This role strongly focuses on modern web automation using Playwright, alongside API testing and test strategy ownership.

You will play a key role in ensuring product quality through a mix of automation and manual testing, while driving best practices across the SDLC.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test suites for web applications using Playwright
• Develop API tests using tools such as RestAssured
• Design, review, and execute test cases aligned to acceptance criteria
• Identify gaps in coverage and improve overall test strategy
• Perform exploratory, integration, regression, and negative testing
• Analyse and debug failures in CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed quality across the SDLC
• Contribute to defect triage, prioritisation, and release readiness
• Provide testing estimates and support sprint planning
• Mentor junior QA engineers

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong QA automation experience with a focus on Playwright
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin
• Experience in API testing (e.g. RestAssured)
• Familiarity with BDD/reporting tools such as Cucumber or Allure
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
• Knowledge of test management tools (e.g. TestRail)
• Understanding of non-functional testing (performance, security)
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Strong communication skills

Desirable

• Performance testing (e.g. Apache JMeter)
• Familiarity with SonarQube
• Mentoring or leadership experience
• ISTQB certification

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