Hybrid QA Automation Engineer – CI/CD & API Testing

ITV; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoo 55, an ITV Studios company, seeks a QA Automation Engineer to drive shift-left quality on Phase 1 deliverables, including the Ingest Portal and media scripting. You will design and maintain automated test suites for UI and RESTful APIs, ensuring reliability before handoff to operations.

You will build end-to-end and API testing frameworks, integrate them into CI/CD, and work with engineers to resolve defects in Jira, while performing load tests on cloud endpoints to meet volume demands.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software quality assurance, with a strong focus on test automation.
• Hands-on experience building test automation frameworks for both web applications (UI) and RESTful APIs.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement the automated testing strategy for the Zoo 55 Phase 1 deliverables, including the Ingest Portal and media scripting.
• Build robust end-to-end and API testing frameworks using tools like Cypress, Playwright, or Postman.
• Integrate automated test suites into the squad's CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous quality checks on every code commit.
• Identify, document, and track software defects in Jira, working directly with platform engineers to investigate and resolve root causes.
• Conduct basic load and performance testing on Cloud NAS and ingest endpoints to ensure they meet operational volume requirements.
• Collaborate with the Technical BA to define testable acceptance criteria for user stories and execute sprint-level testing.

Skills

Test automation

UI testing

API testing

CI/CD

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Postman

Job description

Zoo 55, an ITV Studios company, seeks a QA Automation Engineer to drive shift-left quality on Phase 1 deliverables, including the Ingest Portal and media scripting. You will design and maintain automated test suites for UI and RESTful APIs, ensuring reliability before handoff to operations.

You will build end-to-end and API testing frameworks, integrate them into CI/CD, and work with engineers to resolve defects in Jira, while performing load tests on cloud endpoints to meet volume demands.