Automation QA Engineer — Playwright + CI/CD Champion

Spectrum IT Recruitment; Brighton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is looking for an experienced automation-focused QA Engineer to join a growing quality engineering team. You will cover the full software testing lifecycle, expanding test automation while maintaining strong manual testing practices and supporting a move towards CI/CD delivery.

You will design and maintain automated tests with Playwright, build scalable frameworks, perform API testing with Postman, mentor colleagues, and help define QA best practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years' commercial experience with Playwright.
• Experience developing automated tests within large-scale or enterprise frameworks.
• Strong understanding of the Page Object Model.
• Strong manual testing experience, including functional and exploratory testing.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Good understanding of software testing methodologies, techniques, and best practices.
• Experience testing REST APIs and related concepts.
• Practical experience creating automated API tests using Postman or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright.
• Build and enhance scalable test automation frameworks using a Page Object Model approach.
• Perform manual, functional, regression and exploratory testing.
• Develop automated API tests using REST APIs, Postman or similar tools.
• Work closely with developers, QA colleagues and other stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of QA coding standards, processes and best practices.
• Support the continued integration of automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, efficiency and overall quality processes.
• Investigate, document and communicate defects effectively.
• Mentor and support less experienced QA team members.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the wider QA function.
• Utilise modern AI coding and testing tools, such as Claude, to improve productivity and testing effectiveness.

Skills

Manual testing

REST API testing

JavaScript/TypeScript

QA methodologies

CI/CD knowledge

Mentoring

Test automation framework design

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Playwright

Postman

Job description

Spectrum IT Recruitment is looking for an experienced automation-focused QA Engineer to join a growing quality engineering team. You will cover the full software testing lifecycle, expanding test automation while maintaining strong manual testing practices and supporting a move towards CI/CD delivery.

You will design and maintain automated tests with Playwright, build scalable frameworks, perform API testing with Postman, mentor colleagues, and help define QA best practices across the team.