Lead Test Automation Engineer Location: Hybrid (2 days in office per week) Department: Technology Type: 6 month intial contract About the Role We're on the hunt for a passionate Test Automation Engineer to join a high-performing, lean quality engineering team. You'll own the automation strategy for high-throughput systems, crafting scalable, reliable automated tests and tooling that underpin our continuous delivery pipelines. What You'll Do Develop and maintain automated test scripts for APIs, UI, backend services and data validation Integrate your tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps) to ensure quality in every deployment Collaborate with developers, product owners and QA to define acceptance criteria and test approaches Write and manage SQL queries to prepare and validate test data Contribute to test planning, documentation and risk analysis activities What We're Looking For Proven experience in automation scripting using C#, Java or Python Hands-on with frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, Pytest, Robot Framework, RestAssured, Karate or Specmatic Familiarity with behaviour-driven tools like SpecFlow, Cucumber or Behave Solid API testing experience with Postman, Insomnia or Swagger/OpenAPI Strong SQL skills for querying relational databases Experience using test management tools (Jira/Xray, TestRail, Zephyr or qTest) and reporting tools (Allure, Extent Reports, ReportPortal or Power BI) Understanding of transactional processing systems and microservices architectures (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ) Nice-to-Have Exposure to event-driven testing or asynchronous systems Experience with ML/LLM testing frameworks or OpenTelemetry ISTQB certifications (Foundation, Test Automation Engineer or AI Testing) Why Join Us? Work within a supportive, energetic team that values continuous learning Sharpen your skills on modern delivery pipelines and high-throughput transactional platforms Hybrid work model: flexible office days to collaborate and remote days for deep focus How to Apply Click "Apply" and upload your CV-let's build better quality together!
