Staff QA Automation Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a well-funded energy technology company that is scaling rapidly across the UK and EU. Our client has built AI-native transaction infrastructure serving thousands of business customers, and they've recently closed significant Series B funding to accelerate their global expansion.

They're looking for a Staff QA Automation Engineer to architect quality engineering standards across their platform engineering organization. This is a specialist individual contributor role reporting to the Head of QA, with no direct reports but significant influence across distributed engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a risk-aware CI testing standard that enables fast, targeted test runs with clear confidence signals at the point of change
• Build dependency models that drive test selection and breaking-change detection across microservice architectures
• Establish unit, integration, and contract testing standards with observability layers to maintain pipeline reliability
• Develop automated pass/fail analysis for canary releases against production traffic, enabling deployments to promote or roll back without manual intervention
• Drive AI integration in the quality pipeline, including LLM-based change-risk classification, targeted mutation testing, test generation, and self-healing checks
• Create reference test suites in real service repositories that demonstrate standards in practice
• Architect and maintain test automation frameworks and tooling used across the wider engineering organization

What We're Looking For

Must have:

• Expert-level proficiency with test automation frameworks including pytest, Playwright, Selenium, and API testing tools
• Proven experience architecting and maintaining test automation frameworks adopted across an engineering organization
• Deep knowledge of testing distributed systems and microservice architectures, including API-level automation, CI/CD integration, and service-level testing strategies
• Track record of leading innovation and proof-of-concepts in testing, particularly AI-led regression optimization and change-risk analysis
• Strong collaboration skills with experience delivering across multi-project environments and distributed teams
• Experience with contract testing or consumer/provider verification (Pact, OpenAPI schema validation, or similar)
• AWS infrastructure experience including Lambda, GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, and deployment tooling

Nice to have:

• Experience with progressive deployment strategies: canary releases, feature flags, automated rollback from production signals
• Knowledge of mutation testing, whether traditional tooling or LLM-based approaches
• Test-data management and environment-isolation strategy in shared environments
• Background in regulated or high-stakes domains such as energy, fintech, or payments

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your application to our client and support you throughout their interview process, which typically takes 2 to 3 weeks and includes:

• Introductory call with their Talent team (30 minutes)
• Behavioral interview with the Hiring Manager (60 minutes)
• Skills interview with cross-functional leaders (90-120 minutes), including a practical exercise on framework design and AI-in-test
• Bar Raiser interview with leadership stakeholders (45 minutes)

Please apply exclusively through Get A Job.ai. Do not contact the client directly, as all applications must be coordinated through our recruitment process.

Pay

This role is based in the United Kingdom and is remote-first within the UK and EU.

Our client offers a competitive compensation package at £104,000, stock options, 25 days holiday plus public holidays (with flexibility to swap for dates that matter to you), birthday leave, and home working and wellbeing budgets.

Important: Compensation details and any offer will come directly from the client during their process. Get A Job.ai facilitates the introduction and supports your candidacy.

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