Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Senior QA Automation Engineer (UK Remote • Up to £75,000)
Shape the quality behind technology that powers scientific discovery.
If you're a QA Automation engineer who wants more than just passing tests and closing tickets: someone who wants their work to matter, then this is the kind of role that elevates careers.
You'll join a fast‐growing scientific technology company building intelligent platforms used by researchers, labs, and innovators across biotech, genomics, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, climate science, and advanced R&D. The software you help assure will support experiments, accelerate discoveries, and influence real‐world scientific outcomes.
This isn't box ticking QA.
This is quality engineering at the centre of scientific progress.
✨ The Impact You’ll Make
In scientific environments, quality isn't a “nice to have” it’s fundamental. Our users rely on high integrity systems to analyse complex datasets, automate lab workflows, and make decisions with real‐world consequences.
As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you’ll play a critical part in ensuring our platforms remain robust, scalable, and trustworthy for the scientists who depend on them every day.
🎯 What You’ll Own
In this role, you will:
- Build, improve, and maintain automation frameworks for highly data driven scientific applications
- Champion quality engineering practices across teams and guide improvements across the SDLC
- Lead end‐to‐end test strategy across automation, integration, performance, and resilience
- Identify automation opportunities that remove friction and accelerate scientific workflow validation
- Test complex pipelines, analytical tools, and multi‐step scientific workflows
- Ensure quality across multi‐browser, multi‐region web platforms used in labs worldwide
- Collaborate closely with Product, Data, Dev, and Science teams to shift quality left
- Mentor engineers and influence a culture of continuous improvement
💡 What You Bring
We’re looking for someone with depth in both testing craft and engineering fundamentals:
- Strong experience in automation‐focused QA roles
- Solid engineering skills in JavaScript/TypeScript (React familiarity a plus)
- Hands‐on experience with Playwright (Cypress/Selenium beneficial)
- Proven background designing CI/CD‐integrated automation solutions
- Familiarity with Xray, JIRA, BDD (Cucumber/Gherkin)
- Experience in high‐complexity environments with demanding security requirements (science, healthcare, med‐tech, R&D, regulated sectors, or similar)
- A detail‐driven mindset and passion for precision, reliability, and technical excellence
If you’re motivated by work that contributes to real scientific progress, this role will feel meaningful every day.
🎁 What’s in it for you
- 💷 Up to £75,000 salary + Fantastic Benefits
- 🏡 Fully remote (UK only)
- 🌍 Work on products used by scientists, researchers, and innovators around the world
- 🔬 Influence the QA vision for platforms built for cutting‐edge research environments
- 🚀 Join a rapidly scaling science‐tech company with long‐term career growth
- 🧪 Collaborate with expert engineering teams building tools that power modern scientific discovery
📌 Additional Info
UK right to work required (no sponsorship available).