Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

Automation Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites covering API, UI, and performance scenarios
• Build reusable test components and frameworks to support scalable automation
• Ensure automated tests are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with product behaviour

Delivery & Quality

• Translate product and technical requirements into effective automated test coverage
• Identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements
• Investigate and resolve moderately complex test failures and quality issues
• Support release confidence by maintaining healthy, meaningful test suites

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor and guide engineers and testers on automation practices, test design, and tooling
• Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and QA engineers on test strategy and implementation
• Participate in code reviews with a focus on test quality and automation effectiveness

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to reducing manual testing effort through automation
• Improve test execution time, reliability, and signal‑to‑noise ratio
• Keep abreast of evolving test automation tools, frameworks, and best practices

General

• Perform all other duties as assigned

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of professional Software Engineering or Test Automation experience
• Demonstrable experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production systems
• BSc in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

• Proficiency in at least one test automation language or framework (e.g. C#, Java, TypeScript, Python)
• Experience automating API tests for backend services
• Experience automating UI tests for web applications e.g. playwright
• Experience designing and executing performance or load tests

Frameworks, Tooling & CI/CD

• Experience building and maintaining test frameworks and reusable test utilities
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build and deployment workflows
• Understanding of test execution strategies, test data management, and environment dependencies

Systems & Integration

• Understanding of RESTful APIs and distributed system behaviours
• Ability to collaborate with backend and frontend engineers to improve testability and coverage
• Familiarity with common failure modes in distributed and UI‑driven systems

Quality, Security & Practices

• Strong understanding of testing fundamentals (test pyramid, shift‑left testing, regression strategies)
• Awareness of security and dependency risks from a quality and testing perspective
• Ability to diagnose flaky tests and improve suite reliability and execution time

Ways of Working

• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
• Good oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to clearly explain test failures, risks, and quality concerns to engineers and stakeholders