QA Automation Architect Salary: £65,000 Bonus Location: Primarily Remote Type: Permanent The Role We're looking for a QA Automation Architect to lead and shape our automation capability across multiple projects and clients. You'll combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership, guiding QA engineers, defining best practices, and building scalable automation frameworks. This is a key role focused on driving innovation in test automation, improving quality standards, and delivering robust, modern engineering solutions across a CI/CD landscape. What You'll Be Doing Leadership & Strategy Lead, mentor, and support a team of QA Automation Engineers Act as the escalation point for automation and QA-related matters Define and maintain QA best practices, standards, and documentation Drive continuous learning through training, certifications, and industry engagement Automation Delivery Own and deliver automation strategies across projects Design and maintain reusable frameworks, templates, and test artefacts Support delivery teams with hands-on automation where required Promote the value of automation through business cases and client engagement Frameworks & Engineering Design and build scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and non-functional testing Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines across cloud environments Implement solutions covering performance, accessibility, and security testing Develop tools or applications (web, API, or CLI) to solve engineering challenges Innovation & R&D Stay current with emerging tools, trends, and best practices Continuously improve automation capabilities and frameworks Build and maintain proof-of-concept and demo environments What We're Looking For Leadership Experience Proven experience leading QA/Automation teams Experience managing distributed/onshore and offshore teams Strong stakeholder management and project delivery skills Technical Expertise Strong experience with automation in Node.js (ideally TypeScript ) Solid background in CI/CD environments and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) Experience building automation frameworks across UI, API, and performance testing Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Rest Assured, JMeter, Axe, BrowserStack (or similar) Knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, accessibility, security) Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.