Staff QA Automation Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Create frameworks and methodologies that empower engineering teams to conduct effective self-testing.

• Lead the development of scripts that provide engineering teams with automation and quality benchmarks.

• Take ownership of the quality engineering strategy as the organization expands.

• Establish testing standards, develop tools, and promote their adoption throughout the engineering teams.

• Formulate a risk-aware continuous integration testing standard that includes dependency modeling, targeted test selection, and detection of breaking changes.

• Set standards for unit, integration, and contract testing, incorporating an observability layer to minimize flaky pipelines.

• Create reference test suites within actual service repositories.

• Define automated pass/fail evaluations for canary releases against production traffic, facilitating automatic promotion or rollback.

• Enhance AI capabilities within the quality pipeline through LLM-based change-risk classification, targeted mutation testing, test generation, and self-healing checks.

• Collaborate with the Platform team while reporting to Bartek Kucharski; this role is a specialist individual contributor without direct reports.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient in test automation frameworks such as pytest, Playwright, Selenium, and API testing or similar tools.

• Experience in designing and maintaining test automation frameworks and tools utilized across a larger engineering organization.

• Extensive understanding of testing in microservice or distributed systems, which includes API-level automation, CI/CD integration, and service-level testing strategies.

• Proven track record in leading innovations and proof-of-concepts in testing, especially in AI-driven regression optimization and change-risk assessment.

• Strong focus on collaboration and delivery in multi-project environments with distributed teams.

• Familiarity with contract testing or consumer/provider verification methodologies (e.g., Pact, OpenAPI schema validation, or similar).

• Experience with AWS infrastructure (e.g., Lambda, GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, deployment tools).

• Knowledge of progressive deployment techniques such as canary releases, feature flags, and automated rollback from production signals (preferred).

• Understanding of mutation testing, whether through traditional tools or LLM-based approaches (preferred).

• Expertise in test-data management and environment isolation in shared settings (preferred).

• Experience in a regulated or high-stakes industry, such as energy, fintech, or payments (preferred).

• Proficient in spoken, written, and reading English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options to ensure everyone has a stake in our mission.

• 25 days of vacation in addition to public holidays.

• Option to swap public holidays for those that are most significant to you.

• Day off for your birthday.

• Remote-first and flexible work environment.

• Defined core working hours.

• No internal meetings scheduled on Friday afternoons.

• Budget for home office setup.

• Wellbeing budget to support your health and wellness.