QA Automation Engineer — Java, API & CI/CD

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development access to LinkedIn Learnin

Management development programme and培训

Wellness 24/7 confidential employee‑ad

Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays,

Pizza last Thursday of each month

Time off 25 days a year

Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4%

Discretionary Company Bonus

Life Assurance 4x base salary

Private Medical Insurance (spouse and[

Worldwide Travel Insurance

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology is hiring a QA Automation Engineer in London to design, develop and maintain automated tests for complex digital services. You will work closely with developers, DevOps, business analysts and product owners to ensure reliable release readiness and strong test coverage across APIs, user journeys and integrations.

The role emphasizes ownership of automation quality, reducing flaky tests and improving regression coverage, with opportunities to contribute to

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Java programming skills and maintaining automated test code.
• Experience with Serenity BDD, Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver and REST Assured; supported by JUnit/AssertJ.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated API, integration and end-to-end tests using Java, Serenity BDD, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver and REST Assured.
• Contribute to reusable test components and maintainable automation frameworks with clean code and code reviews.
• Define testable acceptance criteria with stakeholders and balance risk-based testing.
• Integrate automated tests into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and provide timely feedback.
• Test asynchronous workflows, event processing and messaging across distributed services.
• Investigate failures using logs, API responses and DB queries; distinguish defects from environment issues.

Skills

Java programming

Serenity BDD

Selenium WebDriver

REST Assured

JUnit

AssertJ

Azure DevOps

Git

Maven

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Maven

Job description

Methods Business and Digital Technology is hiring a QA Automation Engineer in London to design, develop and maintain automated tests for complex digital services. You will work closely with developers, DevOps, business analysts and product owners to ensure reliable release readiness and strong test coverage across APIs, user journeys and integrations.

The role emphasizes ownership of automation quality, reducing flaky tests and improving regression coverage, with opportunities to contribute to