Associate QA Automation Engineer

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty brand in London is seeking an Associate QA Automation Engineer. The role focuses on building and maintaining automated test scripts while enhancing the customer experience through technology. Ideal for candidates with 0–2 years in QA or software testing, who are eager to learn and thrive in a collaborative environment. This position offers hybrid flexibility and the chance to be part of a dynamic tech team.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Inclusive parental leave policy

Employee wellness benefits

Generous product discount

Flexible working environment

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of experience in QA or software testing
• Exposure to JavaScript-based automation frameworks
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git/GitHub

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and maintaining end-to-end test scripts
• Support the execution and reporting of automated test suites
• Collaborate on test plans for small features

Skills

QA or software testing experience

JavaScript-based automation frameworks

Version control systems

CI/CD tools familiarity

SQL exposure

Agile methodologies

Job description

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the brand is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role

The Tech team at Charlotte Tilbury is exciting, diverse, friendly and welcoming. We are dedicated to producing high-quality features that drive a great customer experience. We do this by using new technology to deliver amazing products, while helping to grow the business and provide opportunities to develop engineers into the best version of themselves.

We're continuously improving our products, tools and ways of working. We want Charlottetilbury.com to be easy to choose and easy to use, bringing the incredible, magical retail theatre from our physical stores online. We want to create a genuinely stand-out experience that keeps our customers coming back for more.

We work in small autonomous squads with clear areas of ownership and responsibility, collaborating closely with other teams in the wider business.

We foster a strong sense of community in the broader team to support knowledge sharing, mentoring and collaboration. QA works across squads to improve reliability and experience, helping us to move towards continuous delivery and trusted, safe release-on-demand.

As an Associate QA Automation Engineer you will

We’re looking for motivated, curious and collaborative team members to help us deliver a game-changing roadmap of features with luxury-level performance and reliability. As an Associate QA Automation Engineer you will learn to build upon and maintain our automation framework using tools like Cypress & Maestro as well as supporting a squad deliver features to our Production website and apps.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and maintaining end-to-end test scripts using JavaScript/TypeScript with tools such as Cypress & Maestro
• Support the execution and reporting of automated test suites.
• Learn and apply new testing tools and technologies under guidance from senior team members.
• Collaborate on test plans for small features and contribute to test case creation.
• Work closely with engineers to understand feature requirements and help validate implementations.
• Participate in manual and automated testing to ensure high-quality releases.
• Join team ceremonies such as standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to stay aligned with development progress.
• Contribute to a positive testing culture by asking questions, sharing learnings, and supporting team quality goals.

You'll love working in Tech at Charlotte Tilbury if

• You love to build things that delight customers
• You want to want to make a difference in a genuinely disruptive, innovative and growing business
• You prefer collaboration to strict process
• You get a buzz out of working with a team of people who are diverse in background, experience and skill sets
• You love to delve into data to gain insights and make decisions, but can also trust the instincts of yourself and your colleagues when data isn’t there
• You're a proactive self-starter who enjoys having the freedom to find innovative ways to solve problems efficiently. You're keen on learning and applying new skills

Who you'll work with

We embrace agile principles and value collaboration both in Tech and with the rest of our colleagues across the business. You’ll get to work with a welcoming, inclusive team of talented Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Digital Product Designers.

About you

Skills & Experience

• 0–2 years of experience in QA or software testing, ideally with exposure to JavaScript-based automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, WebdriverIO, Playwright).
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git/GitHub.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, Jenkins, or TeamCity.
• Exposure to SQL and working with databases is a plus.
• Experience in Agile methodologies is beneficial.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to mobile app testing (iOS/Android) or accessibility testing.
• Awareness of the eCommerce domain.

Ideal Personal Qualities

• Eager to learn and grow in the QA field.
• Collaborative and communicative.
• Detail-oriented and curious.
• Open to feedback and continuous improvement.

Our Tech Stack is

• React and Redux
• NextJS
• Typescript
• Node
• Java with Spring Boot
• Elasticpath

The technologies we use include

• Contentful
• Algolia
• AWS
• Elastic Container Service
• Cloudfront
• Lambda
• Aurora (MySQL)
• Optimizely

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

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