Senior Automation Tester

Job Title: Senior Automation Tester
Contract: Outside IR35 / Market rates
Location: Full remote (occasional visits to Cheshire site)
Duration: 6 months + possible renewals

Role Purpose
We’re looking for a Senior Automation Tester to join our clients dynamic Engineering team. You’ll play a key role in building high-quality, scalable software solutions and help deliver reliable, high-performing software products through advanced testing practices and robust automation frameworks. High proficiency with Playwright, Typescript and SQL are the key technical requirements.

About the Role
You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining automated test solutions to support continuous delivery. Working closely with developers, testers, and business stakeholders, you’ll ensure that software changes meet high quality standards from start to finish.

Key Responsibilities
Design and maintain automated test frameworks
Create and execute automated test scripts that align with changing requirements.
Conduct API testing with tools such as Postman and validate data using advanced SQL queries.
Collaborate with engineering and business teams to ensure test coverage aligns with business goals.
Continuously improve testing methodologies and contribute to knowledge-sharing sessions.

High level of communication skills – used to working in a collaborative way

Technical Skills: 

• Strong experience creating end to end automation tests 
• High proficiency with Typescript
• Extensive experience with Playwright
• Experience with pushing changes to git
• Knowledge of Given-when-then (BDD).
• Advanced SQL skills is a key requirement
• ISTQB certification or equivalent is highly desirable.
• Performance testing experience is also expected (30% of time)