Senior QA Automation Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a fast-growing UK technology company seeking their first dedicated Senior QA Automation Engineer. This is a foundational role where you'll define quality engineering practices across business-critical systems. You'll work directly with senior engineering leadership to build test infrastructure, automation coverage, and quality gates that enable rapid delivery without compromising reliability.

This position offers the chance to establish quality standards from the ground up in an organization that handles high-volume commercial transactions, including payment processing, inventory synchronization, and customer-facing workflows where quality has direct business impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integration test infrastructure running against real databases and realistic service environments
• Design and implement automated regression coverage across business-critical workflows
• Own CI quality gates and contribute to release readiness processes
• Develop end-to-end testing coverage for revenue-critical customer journeys
• Create and maintain realistic and secure test data strategies
• Work closely with engineers to identify and prevent quality risks early in development
• Improve test reliability, execution speed, and developer adoption
• Support incident investigations by identifying testing gaps and opportunities for preventative coverage
• Contribute to engineering standards, software quality practices, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to ensure quality requirements are understood and delivered

What We're Looking For

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in QA Automation, SDET, or software engineering with a quality focus
• Strong TypeScript or Python development experience
• Deep integration testing experience using real dependencies including databases, queues, and simulated third-party services
• Strong Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent end-to-end testing experience
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD quality gates, ideally using GitHub Actions
• Strong understanding of automated testing strategies and risk-based testing approaches
• Experience building scalable, maintainable test frameworks
• Ability to write production-quality code
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical capability

Preferred Experience:

• E-commerce or payments experience
• Contract testing experience
• Performance and load testing experience
• Google Cloud Platform familiarity
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience

Attributes:

• Ownership mentality
• Engineering-first approach
• Attention to detail
• Risk-based thinking
• Continuous improvement mindset

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your application and conduct an initial screening conversation. We'll discuss your automation engineering experience, technical approach to quality, and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please note that direct contact with the client is not permitted during the recruitment process—all coordination will be managed through our team.

To strengthen your application, please include a cover letter highlighting your quality engineering philosophy and relevant experience.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai: £55,000+ per year, depending on experience

Location: Uddingston, United Kingdom

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.