AI‑Driven QA Automation Engineer (SDET)

Athos Commerce; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

25 days holiday

Company pension

Healthcare & gym benefits

Cycle to work

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Athos Commerce in London (Victoria) requires a QA Automation Engineer to help build AI-assisted quality workflows and scalable test tooling. You will collaborate with the Head of QA and engineering to extend Playwright with TypeScript, strengthen CI/CD quality gates, and reduce manual testing through automation.

The role emphasizes testing across UI, API, and data layers, debugging via logs, databases, and telemetry, and contributing to test strategy. Hybrid role with monthly in-office presence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software testing experience spanning both hands-on testing and test automation.
• Strong C#/.NET experience with the ability to independently write and maintain production-quality automation code.
• Experience working within and extending test automation frameworks; experience building a framework from scratch is a plus.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps or a comparable platform, including diagnosing failed pipeline runs.
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to independently query databases and validate application data.
• Experience troubleshooting beyond the UI using APIs, application logs, databases, and other technical signals.
• Strong understanding of test design, including negative testing, boundary conditions, invalid data, partial failures, and other non-happy-path scenarios.
• Meaningful experience using AI tools in software engineering or quality workflows, with the ability to evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs.
• Clear written and verbal English communication skills.
• Existing right to work in the UK and ability to travel to Athos' Victoria, London office approximately once per month. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-assisted quality workflows that help engineers generate, maintain, and triage test assets more efficiently.
• Build and maintain automated testing across UI, API, and data layers.
• Support the migration of the existing C# Selenium automation framework to Playwright with TypeScript.
• Integrate reliable automated test execution and quality gates into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Investigate failures across application logs, APIs, databases, telemetry, test environments, and production systems.
• Improve observability and production quality through monitoring, alerting, and better visibility into feed and syndication failures.
• Contribute to test strategy, including determining what should be tested, at which layer, and where automation provides the greatest value.
• Support release and pre-release quality by identifying what has been verified and communicating residual risk.
• Review pull requests and contribute hands-on code that improves quality tooling and automation.
• Share knowledge and help make effective quality engineering practices easy for other engineers to adopt.

Skills

C#/.NET

Test automation

CI/CD (Azure DevOps)

SQL

API testing

AI in QA

English communication

UK work authorization

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

Selenium

xUnit/NUnit

Postman/Newman

PowerShell

Azure Functions

Service Bus

Application Insights

Redis

Docker

YAML pipelines

Job description

Athos Commerce in London (Victoria) requires a QA Automation Engineer to help build AI-assisted quality workflows and scalable test tooling. You will collaborate with the Head of QA and engineering to extend Playwright with TypeScript, strengthen CI/CD quality gates, and reduce manual testing through automation.

The role emphasizes testing across UI, API, and data layers, debugging via logs, databases, and telemetry, and contributing to test strategy. Hybrid role with monthly in-office presence.