Senior Test Automation Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Desktop, Web & Cloud Application Test Automation

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and build of our test automation from the ground up.
• Decide how we structure and organize automated testing across our desktop and web applications, so the approach is consistent and easy to build on.
• Check the quality of the team's work before it goes in and help fix problems when something isn't working well.
• Mentor and guide a junior engineer as they learn test automation from scratch.
• Be the person the team comes to when a tricky technical decision or problem needs to be resolved.

Technology Skills We Need

• Strong, hands-on coding experience in Python and/or Java.
• Experience using a test automation framework such as pytest, TestNG, or JUnit.
• Experience automating desktop applications (tools like pywinauto or WinAppDriver).
• Experience automating web applications (tools like Selenium or Playwright).
• Experience testing APIs/backend services (e.g. using Postman), not just what's visible on screen.
• Comfortable working with databases (e.g. MySQL, SQL Server) to check data is correct.
• Experience using Git (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket) to manage code changes as part of a team.
• Experience setting up automated test runs using a CI/CD tool such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions, so tests run without manual effort each time.
• Familiarity with an issue-tracking or test management tool such as JIRA or Azure DevOps is a plus.

Behaviour We're Looking For

• Comfortable building something new from the ground up, without an existing template or system to copy.
• Takes ownership accountable for decisions and their outcomes, not just for finishing tasks.
• A natural mentor patient, clear, and genuinely invested in helping a less experienced engineer grow.
• Comfortable giving direct, constructive feedback on someone else's work.
• Stays calm and methodical when something breaks and needs to be tracked down.

Quality We Expect

• Test scripts that are reliable and consistent — they don't randomly fail for no real reason.
• Code and notes that another engineer could pick up and understand without needing to ask the author.
• Consistent standards applied across the whole team's work, not just their own.
• Tests that genuinely catch real problems, not just tests that are written to always pass.

Nice to Have

Not required — a bonus if a candidate already has some of this:

• Understanding of how serialization / track-and-trace systems work.
• Exposure to camera-based or vision inspection systems.
• Basic awareness of industrial automation (PLCs) or industrial printers.
• Awareness of quality/compliance standards such as ISO or 21 CFR Part 11.
• A software testing certification such as ISTQB.

Experience Required

• 7–10 years of hands-on software test automation experience overall.
• Has personally built a test automation setup from scratch before — not just added tests to one that already existed.
• Has experience mentoring, leading, or reviewing the work of less experienced engineers.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.