What you'll be doing
- Define and evolve the automation approach for your product area (API, UI, contract, component and more)
- Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks and scripts that scale across teams
- Drive continuous improvement-making frameworks cleaner, faster, and easier for others to use
- Integrate automation into continuous delivery pipelines and optimise stable, deterministic runs
- Investigate flaky tests, eliminate root causes, and strengthen reliability standards
- Provide meaningful reporting on real risks (not just raw figures) to QA leadership
- Lead by example through code reviews, mentorship, and short learning sessions for QA/SDET engineers
- Build reusable utilities, components and libraries to improve efficiency and maintainability
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps engineers to embed testing into delivery
- Ensure alignment with compliance and security requirements relevant to healthcare data systems
What you'll bring
- Strong experience in software testing, with a proven automation background
- Proven expertise designing and maintaining automation frameworks and test scripts
- Hands-on automation experience across tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or UFT (and/or similar)
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps pipelines)
- Strong programming proficiency in Java and Python
- Solid understanding of SDLC/STLC and Agile ways of working
- Ability to troubleshoot complex automation failures and drive corrective actions
- Confidence leading automation standards and best practices across QA teams
Additional information
- Pay: Outside IR35, remote working
- Start: 3 months initially, with potential extensions if demand continues
- You'll use your own laptop (make/model not specified)
- BPSS is required (pay for your own BPSS)
Rate:
£256/day
Location:
United Kingdom
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior