Automation Engineer

CMap Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Dental insurance

EV Salary Sacrifice

Help@Hand

Enhanced parental leave

Discounts

Team events

City-centre office

Job summary

CMap Group is seeking an Automation Engineer in Manchester to design and build our Playwright framework, converting repetitive tests into fast, reliable automated checks. You’ll create internal tooling, seed test data, and empower our QA team to extend the framework with confidence.

You will bring hands-on Playwright experience, a strong .NET mindset, and the ability to communicate technical decisions clearly. Mobile automation is a plus as we grow our testing capabilities across platforms.

Qualifications

• Playwright experience as a core skill for automation
• Experience designing automation frameworks from scratch for SaaS or web apps
• Ability to explain technical decisions clearly to developers and testers alike
• Hands-on experience with modern test tooling and data seeding workflows
• Familiarity with AI tools in day-to-day engineering is a plus

Responsibilities

• Review current test approach and design/build the Playwright automation framework.
• Automate repetitive regression scenarios and run reliably in CI/CD pipelines.
• Build internal test tooling, including test data seeding to speed up testing.
• Make the framework easy for QA to extend and coach the team on automation concepts.
• Contribute ideas on next steps and improvements to the automation strategy

Skills

Playwright

Automation framework design

SaaS/web apps testing

.NET

Technical communication

AI tooling in engineering

Mobile app automation

Tools

Playwright

.NET framework

Job description

Automation Engineer

Department: R&D

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Manchester

Description

CMap is a fast-growing software company helping project-based businesses win, deliver, and manage work… profitably.

At our core, we’re a software company. That that means engineering excellence matters to us. We’re focused on building clean, scalable, high-performing systems that solve real problems for our users.

Our engineering team is trusted to make smart technical decisions, contribute to product thinking, and continuously raise the bar. We invest in quality, not just speed, and we create space for learning, innovation, and doing things the right way.

We’re proud of our product and even prouder of our people. Collaboration, openness, and input from across the business drive both our culture and our success. We keep things friendly and informal, but we’re serious about building something great together.

What we're looking for:

Most automation roles hand you a backlog of tests to write. This one hands you the blueprint.

We’re looking for an Automation Engineer to design and build how CMap tests its software. You’ll shape our Playwright framework, turn repetitive manual testing into fast, reliable automated checks, and build the tools that help our whole QA team work smarter. If you’re the kind of engineer who sees a manual process and thinks “I could build something for that”, we’d love to hear from you.

You will:

• Review how we test today, then design and build our Playwright automation framework.
• Automate our most repetitive manual regression scenarios and get them running reliably in the pipeline.
• Build internal test tooling, such as test data seeding, that speeds up testing across the business.
• Make the framework easy for our QA team to extend, and coach them on how to think about automation.
• Bring your own ideas. We want you telling us what we should be doing next.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• A background where test automation has been your main focus
• Experience designing and building automation frameworks from scratch, ideally for SaaS or web apps
• Strong hands‑on Playwright experience
• A developer’s mindset and comfort working in .NET
• The ability to explain technical decisions clearly to developers and testers alike
• Smart, practical use of AI tools in your day‑to‑day engineering
• Mobile app automation experience is a bonus.

What we offer:

• Private medical & dental insurance: Supporting your health and wellbeing with access to private care.
• Life assurance: Providing extra financial security for you and your loved ones.
• EV Salary Sacrifice:It's like a cycle-to-work scheme, but for electric vehicles. You give up some of your pre-tax salary, and we give you an EV, with lots more you need to get on the road.
• Help@Hand: 24/7 support for your health and wellbeing.
• Enhanced parental leave: Offering time and support when it matters most.
• Reward Gateway: Access to discounts on a wide range of everyday purchases.
• Team outings and events: Regular chances to connect and unwind.
• Manchester city-centre office: A modern space with great facilities including in office Gym and Changing rooms

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.