QA Automation Engineer (Selenium)

Posted 19 May 2026
LocationUnited Kingdom
Job type Contract
Discipline Technology

Job description

Details

  • Remote based role

  • Outside IR35

  • 8 weeks initial contract

  • Must have strong recent test automation experience


QA Automation Engineer - Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, DevOps and QA Engineers to test new product features

  • Design, write and execute automated tests using Selenium mainly, also some Playwright

  • Analyse requirements and designs, contributing to story estimation and test strategy

  • Champion TDD/BDD practices and maintain a high level of automation within CI/CD pipelines

  • Review logs and databases as part of testing and automate where possible

  • Track defects and document testing activities using Azure DevOps and Confluence

  • Follow industry best practices

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Strong commercial experience as an automation QA within a modern software environment

  • Must have strong selenium experience

  • Strong experience with REST APIs and API testing strategies.

  • Strong BDD experience with high focus on test automation

  • Strong understanding of a balanced Test Pyramid with separation of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

  • Experience implementing QA tests within a Microservices architecture

  • Able to describe differences and identify candidates for Unit, Integration & E2E tests

  • Experience improving, refactoring, and rewriting tests.

  • Experience ensuring that tests run within CI/CD pipelines

If this position is of interest to you, apply now!