Senior Automation Tester Edinburgh/Hybrid Salary up to £55,000 We are looking for a Senior Automation Tester who shares our passion for quality and for using technology to help businesses perform better. The Role As a Senior Automation Tester, you will play a key role in driving quality across engineering teams. Youll divide your time between hands-on delivery work and collaborating with senior engineering leaders on cross-team quality initiatives, tools, and processes. Youll be involved throughout the full product development lifecycle, helping to deliver innovative solutions that are changing how people interact. What Youll Be Doing Analyse test objectives and design test plans aligned with the overall test strategy
Design and build test cases, scripts, and procedures with clear expected results
Create and manage realistic, representative test data
Execute a wide range of functional and non-functional testing activities
Support testing at all levels, including unit, component, integration, system, and UAT
Raise, manage, and track defects through to resolution in line with organisational standards
Document and report test results against acceptance criteria, maintaining traceability between stories, tests, and defects
Communicate testing status, risks, metrics, and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Continuously develop your skills and stay up to date with new tools, technologies, and best practices
Skills & Experience Strong understanding of iterative and incremental development methodologies
Experience defining and maintaining regression strategies, including identifying tests suitable for automation
Demonstrable experience testing desktop and service-based applications
Experience working with event-driven systems and service bus technologies
Strong coding or scripting skills (ideally C# or TypeScript ; Java, JavaScript, or Python also considered)
Hands-on experience with tools such as Jest, Playwright, Cypress, K6, or similar
Experience using test management tools such as Azure DevOps
If youre a quality-focused Senior Automation Tester looking to make a real impact, wed love to hear from you. Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry.
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