automation qa

The company provides intelligence solutions that assist large organizations in verifying business partners and entities. It operates as a fast-growing business supported by Series A funding and is currently scaling its operations to support major client projects.

• Own the overall testing strategy across multiple products;
• Build a comprehensive end-to-end test suite in Playwright, covering critical user journeys and regression scenarios;
• Maintain fast and trusted CI pipelines;
• Introduce contract testing using Pact or similar between APIs, microservices and event-driven components;
• Build realistic integration environments using Docker, LocalStack and seeded MongoDB datasets;
• Test complex asynchronous workflows, including batch processing, retries, dead-letter queues, idempotency and long-running operations;
• Design reusable test data and automation frameworks;
• Perform exploratory testing where needed;
• Collaborate with engineers to increase coverage across the development lifecycle.

• Must be SC clearable;
• 4+ Years of experience in test automation, QA engineering or an SDET role;
• Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript or JavaScript;
• Deep experience with Playwright (or Cypress with a genuine willingness to move across);
• Experience testing distributed or event-driven systems;
• Experience designing integration testing strategies across multiple services;
• Experience building or introducing contract testing;
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, ideally GitHub Actions;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Nice to have: Docker, MongoDB, Vitest, Jest, OAuth2/OIDC, or a background in compliance, KYC/AML or fintech.

• Salary £50,000 - £70,000 per year;
• Small, high-trust engineering team with genuine ownership;
• Real influence over testing direction and tooling;
• Quarterly in-person team meetups.