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Senior QA Automation Engineer

Softcat · Manchester, ENG, United Kingdom
Manchester, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Manchester, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Provide technical leadership in building and evolving a scalable, reliable test automation capability.

Qualifications

  • Strong experience as a Senior Test Automation Engineer or equivalent role
  • Strong programming skills in Python, C#, or JavaScript for creating test scripts
  • Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks
  • Hands-on knowledge of automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium
  • Experience testing APIs and services using tools like REST clients and Postman

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the automation framework and processes ensuring appropriate coverage across UI, API, integration, and regression layers
  • Design, build, and maintain robust automation frameworks focusing on reusability, maintainability, and performance
  • Act as a technical authority for test automation, setting standards and best practices
  • Partner with developers to embed quality early, contributing to acceptance criteria and design discussions
  • Lead automation planning through risk-based analysis

Skills

C#JavaScriptPythonREST

Relocation

No