Senior Automation Tester

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. You’ll divide your time between hands-on delivery work and collaborating with senior engineering leaders on cross-team quality initiatives, tools, and processes. You’ll be involved throughout the full product development lifecycle, helping to deliver innovative solutions that are changing how people interact.   What You’ll 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 you’re a quality-focused Senior Automation Tester looking to make a real impact, we’d 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.