Aviation QA Engineer: AI‑Driven Automation (12M Contract)

Deerfoot IT Resources Limited; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Deerfoot IT Resources Limited is seeking a Contract Quality Assurance Engineer for a 12-month assignment in Hounslow. The role is 50/50 hybrid, with a daily rate up to £380, focusing on validating flight management software used by airlines worldwide.

You will join Agile product teams, design automated tests, and validate complex workflows, APIs, and data flows, contributing to safety-critical testing with AI-assisted tooling. Apply your QA expertise to improve CI/CD quality across systems.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field.
• 3+ years in QA, Software Testing or Quality Engineering within Agile product development.
• Proven experience building and maintaining automated testing for enterprise software, integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of APIs, integrations, data models, and distributed applications.
• Self-sufficiency to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
• Confidence using AI-assisted tools across test design, automation, and defect investigation (AI-Driven SDLC awareness a plus).
• Desirable: airline or airport operations knowledge; safety-critical or regulated systems; Playwright, Selenium, Robot Framework, Cypress, Karate or Appium; Postman or SOAP UI; Jenkins and GitHub; JSON, SQL, Kafka or Grafana; Python or Java; ISTQB; testing AI-powered or agentic capabilities

Responsibilities

• Analysing requirements and workflows to define test approaches, and producing test plans, test cases, automation assets and quality reports.
• Designing, implementing and maintaining automated tests that lift regression coverage and delivery efficiency.
• Executing functional, integration, end-to-end, regression and exploratory testing.
• Validating workflows, integrations, APIs and data flows across interconnected products and services.
• Supporting CI/CD through automated testing and quality validation.
• Investigating defects, carrying out root cause analysis and driving issues to resolution.
• Collaborating across product, engineering and domain teams to ensure solutions are testable.
• Championing improvements in quality, automation maturity and engineering practice, including AI-assisted tools.

Skills

QA

Automation

Playwright

Selenium

Robot Framework

Cypress

Appium

Postman

CI/CD

Python

Java

Education

BSc in Computer Science/Engineering/IS

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Selenium

Robot Framework

Cypress

Appium

Postman

Job description

Deerfoot IT Resources Limited is seeking a Contract Quality Assurance Engineer for a 12-month assignment in Hounslow. The role is 50/50 hybrid, with a daily rate up to £380, focusing on validating flight management software used by airlines worldwide.

You will join Agile product teams, design automated tests, and validate complex workflows, APIs, and data flows, contributing to safety-critical testing with AI-assisted tooling. Apply your QA expertise to improve CI/CD quality across systems.