QA Engineer (Playwright & AI), £415 per day inside IR35

Bench IT require a team of 4 x QA Engineers to join a large organisation starting ASAP.

The successful QA Engineers with be working on the CRM platform to boost testing capacity during a busy delivery period.

Contracts run from mid-November until at least the end of January 2027.

We need hands-on QA Engineers who can plug into agile teams, use AI to accelerate testing, and own quality from acceptance criteria through to release sign-off.

Technical Skills

• Use of Playwright and Cypress.
• Use of Claude for agentic testing.
• Use AI-enabled or AI-assisted regression testing tools and approaches.
• Write and maintain solid automation with modern tooling.
• Work comfortably in Linear regression testing.
• Get productive fast with minimal onboarding.
• Communicate clearly and raise defects, risks and requirement gaps without hesitation.
• Financial services, fintech or CRM experience.
• Experience testing integrations, APIs, data migration or infrastructure.
• Experience supporting release readiness and sign-off.

Responsibilities

• Own QA end to end in an AI-enabled workflow.
• Use AI to turn requirements into test cases, support regression and functional testing, and produce test documentation, defect reports and sign-off notes.
• Test user stories against acceptance criteria in sprints or "drops".
• Run functional, exploratory and regression testing across web application features.
• Build and run AI-assisted regression suites to increase coverage and accelerate releases.
• Raise clear, reproducible defects, track them and verify fixes.
• Test APIs, integrations and data flows between the CRM and third-party systems.