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Senior Automation Engineer - Leeds, UK
Ready to help shape the quality of digital products that make a real difference to peoples lives?
Want to build robust automation frameworks, influence testing strategy, and champion quality throughout the software development lifecycle?
Excited by the opportunity to combine hands-on automation expertise with technical leadership and mentoring within a collaborative Agile environment?
As our Senior Automation Test Engineer, youll play a key role in driving quality across our digital platforms and services. Working closely with engineering, product, and business teams, youll help shape our automation approach, develop scalable testing solutions, and ensure high-quality software is delivered with confidence.
Combining hands-on automation expertise with technical leadership, youll support the evolution of our testing capability, champion best practices, and help embed quality throughout every stage of software delivery.
What will you be doing?
As a senior member of the quality engineering team, youll help drive and support our automation strategy, ensuring automated testing remains a core part of our development process. Youll design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright and Vitest, creating reliable and maintainable test solutions that support rapid, high-quality software delivery.
Working closely with Product Owners, Developers, Architects, and stakeholders, youll develop automated test scenarios using BDD and Gherkin, helping to ensure business requirements are translated into effective and meaningful test coverage. Youll collaborate across Agile squads to support planning, refinement, estimation, and delivery activities, ensuring quality remains at the forefront of every release.
Youll take a hands-on role in executing and maintaining automated tests, managing defects through Jira , and coordinating cross-browser and cross-platform testing through BrowserStack. By integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines and supporting shift-left testing principles, youll help improve efficiency, reduce risk, and increase confidence in software releases.
Alongside your technical responsibilities, youll provide mentoring and guidance to both manual and automation testers, helping to grow capability across the team. Youll promote a culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement while supporting onboarding activities and sharing knowledge across the wider engineering community.
Youll also contribute to operational excellence by supporting root cause analysis, identifying opportunities for improvement, maintaining clear documentation, and helping to drive improvements in application reliability, automation effectiveness, and delivery performance.
You will bring
Your passion for software quality and automation engineering to a role where youll directly influence the reliability and success of our digital products. Youll have strong hands-on experience with Playwright, Vitest, JavaScript and/or TypeScript, alongside proven expertise in building and maintaining automated testing solutions.
Youll bring a solid understanding of quality engineering principles, behavioural-driven development, and Gherkin-based testing approaches. Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and working within Agile delivery environments will enable you to effectively support modern software delivery practices.
Youll be a confident communicator who can work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. Whether youre helping define testing approaches, investigating defects, mentoring colleagues, or improving automation coverage, youll be passionate about delivering high standards and driving continuous improvement.
Experience with tools such as BrowserStack, Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins would be advantageous. Additional knowledge of API, performance, or security testing, together with ISTQB certification, would also be beneficial.
Most importantly, youll bring a proactive mindset, strong analytical skills, and a commitment to helping teams deliver exceptional digital experiences through quality-first engineering.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Equality, diversity, and inclusion are incredibly important to us; we have a culture of belonging. Were always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce to ensure we can provide the best service possible for everyone. Its not just about the professional experience you bring were interested in who you are and your potential. If theres an adjustment to our recruitment process that would help you to be your best, speak to our team and theyll be happy to help.
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Senior Automation Engineer - Leeds employer: MindMatch
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