Lead QA Automation Engineer - Frameworks & CI/CD

Adria Solutions Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Adria Solutions Ltd is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead test strategy and drive quality across a modern digital platform. This hands-on role blends building automated frameworks with shaping testing practices within a growing engineering team.

You will collaborate with senior technology leaders and developers to ensure API and UI tests are robust, integrated into CI/CD, and capable of catching edge cases and performance concerns before release.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as QA Automation Engineer, Test Engineer or SDET and hands-on testing.
• Strong API and UI test automation skills.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of test pyramid and risk-based testing.
• Attention to detail and clear defect communication.

Responsibilities

• Establish a test strategy covering APIs, UI, integrations and end-to-end workflows.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD for fast feedback.
• Test complex transactions and data flows, including edge cases.
• Develop regression, integration and performance tests with security in mind.
• Investigate defects, document findings and verify fixes.
• Introduce QA standards, processes and tooling as the team grows.
• Collaborate with developers to build testability and share responsibility.

Skills

QA Automation

CI/CD

Test Pyramid

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

REST-assured

Job description

Adria Solutions Ltd is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead test strategy and drive quality across a modern digital platform. This hands-on role blends building automated frameworks with shaping testing practices within a growing engineering team.

You will collaborate with senior technology leaders and developers to ensure API and UI tests are robust, integrated into CI/CD, and capable of catching edge cases and performance concerns before release.