Ready to lead the future of quality engineering and become the driving force behind our test automation strategy?
Want to build scalable automation frameworks that improve software quality, accelerate delivery, and enhance customer experiences?
Excited by the opportunity to combine hands-on automation expertise with technical leadership, mentoring, and strategic influence?
As our Lead Automation Engineer , you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and driving our approach to quality engineering across digital products and platforms. You'll lead the design and implementation of modern test automation frameworks, champion best practice testing approaches, and help embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
Working within a collaborative Agile environment, you'll combine hands-on automation engineering with team leadership and stakeholder engagement, ensuring the delivery of robust, reliable, and high-quality software solutions that make a meaningful difference to our clients.
What will you be doing?
As the technical lead for test automation, you'll define and implement the automation strategy across multiple projects and products, ensuring quality is embedded from the earliest stages of delivery. You'll design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright and Vitest, enabling efficient, reliable, and repeatable testing across our applications.
Remaining hands-on, you'll develop automated test suites using BDD and Gherkin-based approaches, creating robust test scenarios that support both rapid delivery and long-term maintainability. You'll work closely with engineers, Product Owners, and stakeholders to ensure testing is integrated throughout the development lifecycle and aligned with business objectives.
You'll lead automation delivery within Agile squads, helping shape technical solutions, supporting planning and estimation activities, and ensuring automation capabilities keep pace with product development. Through effective use of tools such as Jira and BrowserStack, you'll coordinate test execution, defect management, cross-browser testing, and reporting activities to provide visibility and confidence in software quality.
As a people leader and mentor, you'll provide day-to-day guidance to both manual and automation testers, helping ...
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