Senior QA Engineer (Axe core, Java, Playwright or Cypress, Typescript) – Remote
Day rate: £350 – £450 (Inside IR35)
Duration: 3 months
Start: ASAP
My new client is looking for a dedicated and proactive Senior QA Engineer with a strong background in automated testing to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Playwright or Cypress and a solid understanding of API testing as well as a keen eye for detail. Proficiency in Python, experience with accessibility or performance testing would also be a bonus. This role has a primary focus on writing, maintaining and improving automated tests to support our automation-first approach to quality.
Required skills:
You are a confident communicator with stakeholders including developers, product managers, and business analysts, you understand requirements and provide feedback on quality and testability. You participate in design and refinement discussions to identify any issues early in the development lifecycle and build an understanding of the mechanisms by which a feature can be tested.
You can design, implement, and maintain automated tests across backend APIs and frontend UI. You can constructively communicate with other engineers via peer review of code, collaborate effectively and share knowledge in an effective way. You drive best practices in testing and code quality.
You can perform manual testing where required to complement automated tests and familiarise yourself with the application, over time becoming the subject matter expert. You apply this knowledge to write and maintain up-to-date documentation.
You effectively communicate defects, working closely with the product owner to understand impact and contribute to prioritisation efforts.
Required testing skills and experience:
1. UI Tools: Playwright, typescript
2. You have strong analytical and debugging skills.
3. You can analyse features, design, implement execute automated tests as part of the continuous delivery process within a development team.
4. You develop and maintain integration and end-to-end test suites, test data and test lifecycle and you ensure that tests remain valid, are reliably executed and run in a repeatable way.
5. API Tools: Java, Rest-assured, maven, JUnit, Allure
6. You can analyse, design and implement automated test cases for API endpoints to ensure that requirements are met, industry standards are upheld, and documentation is correct.
7. You are confident with tools such as curl or Postman for ease of communication within the team.
8. You are competent in reading client bug reports, including logs, and reproducing errors to support developers diagnosing issues across the stack.
Preferred skills:
9. Tools: Python, Kotlin, maven, Gatling, Axe core You have some experience writing, maintaining and using mock services for use in automated tests.
10. We use mock services to generate data that usually comes from 3rd parties, giving us control of the data and ability to simulate errors on demand.
11. You have some experience designing, implementing and executing API performance and load tests.
12. We use gatling to drive our API tests and monitor key application metrics from these in addition to built-in response time reports.
13. You have some exposure to accessibility standards such as WCAG or ADA, you have experience running manual or automated accessibility checks such as axe core and integrating these into a continuous delivery pipeline.
*Rates depend on experience and client requirements