Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

QA Automation Engineer - £55-70,000 per annum base + benefits – London (2 days per week in the office)

We are recruiting for a QA Automation Engineer to work on an established trading system development project with a large enterprise client, handling millions of dollars of traded value each day.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building and maintaining automated test pipelines utilising Playwright tests
• Analyse, understand, and review the products’ functional and non-functional requirements and identify gaps and inconsistencies
• Develop automated tests for software validation, ensuring high quality of the system
• As part of the QA team, take ownership of quality aspects of the system
• Report and manage/triage existing defects, ensuring proper follow-up and actions are being taken by the team
• Promote and adopt QA best practices, contributing to their continuous improvement
• Contribute to the definition of test automation guidelines and standards in order to improve the software testing process

Requirements:

• QA Engineering Experience (software testing experience).
• At least three years experience writing automated tests for web and/or non-web based applications
• Knowledge of Jest, Playwright and BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber)

Nice to have:

• Experience of high volume, high availability, high stakes enterprise systems
• Experience building and/or testing REST and/or web socket based APIs
• Experience with trading applications (in production)
• Performance testing experience with K6, Artillery or similar
• 5 days/per year for training
• £1,000 annual allowance for training (up to 50% of this value can be used for you to buy workstation equipment to work from home)
• In-person fun team events/team buildings every 3 months
• Company equipment and onboarding kit
• Annual bonus (dependent on company and personal performance)
• Stock option plan
• Birthday off
• Generous employee referral programme

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Analyst, Engineering, and Information Technology

Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting