Automation Test Engineer: Playwright, CI/CD & JS Specialist

Affinity Water; Hatfield; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus scheme

Generous pension

Family benefits including leave

Affinity days volunteering

Wellbeing centre access

Job summary

Affinity Water in Hatfield is seeking an Automation Test Engineer to join our Technology & Transformation Team. You will help digitalise core customer systems including CIS, billing platforms, and customer-facing channels, with QA central to its success.

You will design and maintain automated tests, integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high quality across the programme.

Qualifications

• Experience with automated testing frameworks and scripting languages.
• ISTQB Foundation Certification or equivalent.
• ISTQB Test Automation Engineer certification.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript for end-to-end, regression, and functional scenarios.
• Build reusable, modular test components; maintain and adapt existing regression suites; manage source control via Bitbucket.
• Automate end-to-end customer lifecycle journeys including account setup, service transfers, billing runs, payment processing, and debt management.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines) for fast, reliable feedback; triage failures; log and track defects in JIRA.
• Collaborate with developers, BAs, product owners, and architects to translate requirements into risk-based test scenarios; participate in Agile ceremonies; document frameworks and best practices; champion shift-left testing and quality culture across the programme.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Playwright

CI/CD

Test Automation

ISTQB Foundation

ISTQB Test Automation Engineer

Tools

Selenium WebDriver IO

Playwright

Cypress

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Job description

Affinity Water in Hatfield is seeking an Automation Test Engineer to join our Technology & Transformation Team. You will help digitalise core customer systems including CIS, billing platforms, and customer-facing channels, with QA central to its success.

You will design and maintain automated tests, integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high quality across the programme.