Software Engineer in Test

Christopher Ali have partnered with a SaaS and bespoke development company whose products have powerful sustainability benefits.

They are growing their team and are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer who can help them design, implement and maintain comprehensive automated test suites to ensure quality at scale.

Your role will be to continuously find new ways to improve the quality, performance, and security of applications through intelligent automation strategies. Another key aspect of the role will be to help build an maintain test asset libraries combined with a user journey focus especially around optimising our UX experience.

The role will be fully remote - work-life balance is crucial and they support a healthy blend, however you must have the right to work in the UK and sponsorship cannot be provided.

Skills needed :

• Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar)
• Proven experience ‘shifting testing left’ by integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and making test automation a core part of the development workflow
• Experience of working in an agile development cycle
• Proficient in Ruby used for test automation (Ruby on Rails)
• Hands-on experience with browser automation tools (Capybara, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent) and API testing frameworks
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI) and integrating automated tests into deployment pipelines
• Knowledge of test design patterns, page object models, and maintaining scalable test architecture