Senior QA Engineer — Test Automation

Senior QA Engineer — Test Automation

Location: Fully remote Contract type: Inside IR35 Day rate: £300 per day Duration: Approximately 2-3 months, with a potential start at the end of November Working hours: 10:00 AM-6:00 PM UK time Equipment: Contractor to provide their own laptop and equipment

About the role

We are seeking 2 experienced Senior QA Engineer's to support our Health tech client.

The Saas platform manages the full lifecycle of healthcare staff placements, including staffing requests, candidate records, compliance documentation, scheduling, availability management, and workforce matching. You will help validate the new platform and ensure a high-quality, stable transition for business users across UK and US teams.

This is a hands-on QA role combining manual and automated testing across web and mobile applications. There is a strong focus on Playwright automation, alongside mobile testing using Appium or a similar framework.

What you'll do

• Analyse requirements and create clear test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, and exploratory testing.
• Create, maintain, and debug automated tests using Playwright with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Carry out mobile testing across Android and/or iOS using Appium or an equivalent framework.
• Investigate test failures using logs, screenshots, and diagnostic information.
• Log, track, and manage defects in Jira or a similar tool.
• Execute automated tests through CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate effectively with UK- and US-based delivery teams in an Agile environment.

What we're looking for

• Strong manual testing experience across the full test lifecycle.
• Proven experience with Playwright automation using JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Mobile testing experience across Android and/or iOS.
• Hands-on experience with Appium or a comparable mobile automation framework.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using Jira or similar defect-management tools.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and independent-working skills.

Desirable experience

• API testing using Postman or similar tools.
• Basic SQL knowledge for data validation and testing.

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