Senior QA Automation Engineer

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer you'll work closely with the QA Lead to help improve and deliver the Test Strategy. Within your Squad, you'll help to drive efforts to build robust automation test frameworks and quality gate criteria to support our replatform of our service. You will guide on best practice and approach, identify defects, and work alongside Software Engineers to ensure that our automated testing solution is kept up to date in real time with the coding efforts of the Engineering team. You will help identify and deliver the required test coverage across the platform.

The responsibility of Quality will be owned by the whole Squad, but you will define and agree Engineering Quality Gates and ensure Software Engineers are building in quality at the earliest possible stage (shift left). You will act as principal gate-keeper for Quality Assurance throughout the environmental promotion of releases primarily within your Squad, but may be asked to support a wider scope. You will have a good understanding of agile ceremonies and ways of working and how this might influence QA best practices. You will be keen to embrace AI in ways that support the QA processes and knowledge sharing activities whilst ensuring all governance and regulatory compliance requirements are met and risk is mitigated, but you will not be led by AI.

As part of the strategy around GoCompare's acquisition by Future, we're putting in a technology roadmap for re-platforming our domain around an API first, cloud-based serverless architecture to become the PCW leading service. This is part of our plan to broaden the scope from the GoCompare brand.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve:

• You have proven solid experience using the Playwright (JS/TS) testing framework and are able to build, structure and maintain automated tests and their supporting frameworks from the ground up as well as contribute to existing frameworks and meet internal standards.
• You have proven solid experience in testing APIs and back end services, have experience of Postman or an equivalent toolset and can build supporting automated test suites.
• You understand what good looks like, can build out supporting approaches and can effectively communicate these to members of Engineering.
• You understand and can identify Acceptance Criteria with Product Owners and teams and must be able to elicit test conditions, scenarios and supporting test data from these ACs.
• You have a solid understanding and experience of functional and non-functional testing approaches.
• You have experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and DevOps tools and DevOps best practices and how QA plays its part.
• You have experience with basic development tools like Git and Azure DevOps.
• You have experience writing basic SQL queries.
• You will have a drive to continuously improve quality through ‘shift left’ practices within your Squad & QA automation practices.

What's in it for you:

• The salary for this role is £50,000.
• This is a UK, Remote-based role.
• Plus more great perks, which include:

• Uncapped leave, because we trust you to manage your workload and time.
• When we hit our targets, enjoy a share of our profits with a bonus.
• Refer a friend and get rewarded when they join Future.
• Well-being support with access to our Colleague Assistant Programmes.
• Opportunity to purchase shares in Future, with our Share Incentive Plan.

Who are we…

We're Future, the global leader in specialist media. With over 3,000 employees working across 200+ media brands, Future is a prime destination for passionate people worldwide looking to consume trusted, expert content that educates and inspires action - both online and off - through our specialist websites, magazines, events, newsletters, podcasts and social spaces. We've got ambitious plans that further build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities - and we're looking for driven people who want to be a part of it!

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future:

We embrace and celebrate diversity, making it part of who we are. Different perspectives spark ideas, fuel creativity, and push us to innovate. That's why we're building a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. When it comes to hiring, we keep it fair and inclusive, welcoming talent from every walk of life. It's not just about what you bring to the table — it's about making sure the table has room for everyone. Because a diverse team isn't just good for business. It's the Future.

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