Lead Test Automation Engineer - Remote £80,000

I'm working with a small boutique Consultancy who are looking to hire a highly technical experienced Senior/Lead Automation Engineer. You'll be joining a small passionate team that build software that sits at the heart of major organisations and helps them meet complex regulatory demands. The team are remote first so you can be based anywhere in the UK for this role.

They have one more Junior Tester and are now looking for a experienced Senior/ Lead QA experienced with automation to be the senior figure within the team. They want someone who can build a proper QA strategy and help them get better processes in place, collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD and QA practices, and drive staged, holistic improvements and also support and mentor their more Junior QA. You'll be shaping quality from the very start, challenging requirements, spotting risks early, and ensuring what gets released is robust, secure, and built to last.

This role also has a consultative edge. You'll work closely with some of their larger enterprise clients, helping define sensible test strategies that fit their systems and business goals. You'll review code, guide teams on quality best practice, and communicate clearly with both technical and non technical stakeholders. Ideally you'll have experience testing complex platforms, particularly in regulated or high risk environments such as finance, compliance, or similar enterprise domains etc where its critical to get things right. along with strong automation skills in tools like Playwright/ Cypress Typescript and ideally C#.

You'll work closely with their end clients and design and maintain automated test frameworks across modern web applications, covering Angular front ends and .NET back ends and will actively review both internal team code and external client-side code to ensure adherence to best practices, security protocols, and performance benchmarks. There's a strong focus on automation and API testing, so you should be comfortable building frameworks , along with experience of testing REST Api's and familiarity with cloud environments such as Azure and CI/CD pipelines.

You'll be joining a small, high calibre team that values thoughtful engineering, respectful collaboration, and building things that genuinely matter. If you enjoy solving hard problems, influencing how software is built, and working remotely with talented people, then I would love to hear from you.

Salary is up to £80,000. If you'd like to hear more please reply below to Sam Miller at SR2. Socially Responsible Recruitment.