QA Engineer - Automation

QA Engineer - Automation (API Testing)

Location: London (100% Remote)

Our Client is hiring for a reputed client. If you enjoy building reliable automation, tightening quality feedback loops and helping teams ship with confidence, this is a great opportunity to make quality part of everyday engineering.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and evolve an automation approach across your product area (API, UI, contract, component and more)
• Build, develop and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts
• Integrate automation deeply into CI/CD pipelines, optimising parallel runs for deterministic, stable outputs
• Investigate flaky tests, identify root causes, and drive reliability standards
• Troubleshoot complex automation failures and recommend corrective actions
• Provide meaningful reporting that highlights real risks, not just raw numbers
• Review automation code and mentor junior/mid-level automation engineers
• Create reusable components, utilities and libraries to improve efficiency and maintainability
• Work with developers, product managers and DevOps engineers to ensure fast, stable, trustworthy releases
• Support compliance and security alignment relevant to healthcare data systems (where applicable)

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks
• Strong expertise in API testing and automation (automation desirable, or you can learn and support the team)
• Solid programming skills in Java and Python
• Hands-on CI/CD experience integrating automated tests into pipelines
• Experience with SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies
• The ability to lead continuous improvement-making frameworks cleaner, faster, and easier for others to build on
• Confidence reviewing automation code, spotting issues early, and promoting good test coding habits

Additional information:

• Outside IR35
• 3 months initially, with potential extensions if demand continues
• Pay for your own BPSS
• You can use your own laptop (any make/model)