Automation Engineer — Build Playwright Framework (Manchester)

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

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.