Staff QA Automation Engineer
tem · Remote · United Kingdom ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level IC role
- Remote UK & Europe
- Python + Playwright
- AI-driven testing
- Microservices focus
You will join the Platform team to architect the testing infrastructure that enables other engineering groups to own their quality. Your work involves designing risk-aware CI standards, contract testing strategies, and automated canary release analysis for a complex microservice architecture.
This individual contributor role requires deep expertise in automation frameworks and AI-driven testing innovations. You will set the technical direction for quality engineering as the company scales its global energy market infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design risk-aware CI testing standards with dependency models for fast PR feedback
- Establish unit, integration, and contract testing standards with observability layers
- Define automated pass/fail analysis for canary releases against production traffic
- Implement AI tools for change-risk classification, mutation testing, and self-healing checks
- Build reference test suites in service repos to demonstrate best practices
- Drive adoption of quality standards and automation tooling across engineering teams
What you'll need
- Expertise in test automation frameworks like pytest, Playwright, or Selenium
- Experience architecting test automation tooling for wide engineering organizations
- Deep knowledge of testing microservices, API automation, and CI/CD integration
- Proven track record leading innovation in AI-led regression and risk analysis
- Strong collaboration skills for working across distributed teams and projects
- Experience with contract testing using Pact, OpenAPI schema validation, or similar
- Familiarity with AWS infrastructure including Lambda and GitHub Actions runners
Nice to have
- Experience with progressive deployment strategies like canary releases and feature flags
- Knowledge of mutation testing using traditional tools or LLM-based approaches
- Skills in test-data management and environment isolation in shared setups
- Background in regulated or high-stakes domains such as energy or fintech
Stack
- pytest
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Pact
- OpenAPI
- AWS Lambda
- GitHub Actions
- LLM tools
How you'll work
- Remote first within the UK and Europe
- Specialist individual contributor with no direct reports
- Reports to QA Lead Bartek Kucharski
What you get
- Salary benchmarked around £104,000 or local equivalent
- Stock options for ownership in the company mission
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays and birthday off
- Home working and wellbeing budgets provided
- Flexible pay adjustments based on performance evidence
Hiring process
- Intro call with Talent team (30 minutes)
- Behavioural interview with Hiring Manager (60 minutes)
- Skills interview with practical exercise on framework design (90-120 minutes)
- Bar Raiser interview with leadership stakeholders (45 minutes)