QA Engineer – Automation & CI/CD Specialist

Huxley Associates; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus linked to company and personal绩效

Private healthcare

28 days holiday + holidays

Health cashback

Volunteer days

Caregiver leave

Retail discounts

Share scheme

Job summary

SThree is hiring a QA Engineer for permanent, hybrid work in London or Glasgow. You will own the test strategy across squads, embedding quality throughout the lifecycle and collaborating with engineers and product teams to validate acceptance criteria.

You will drive automated testing across API and UI layers, implement robust test patterns, and ensure fast feedback through CI/CD gateways, while leveraging ISTQB and Agile qualifications.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience as a QA / Test Engineer within an agile, product-focused environment.
• Hands-on test automation across API and UI/E2E layers (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured or similar).
• Strong grounding in test design techniques and risk-based prioritisation (RICE / MoSCoW).
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates.
• Knowledge of contract testing and API assurance (Pact, Postman).
• Familiarity with non-functional testing: performance, load, resilience, security and accessibility.
• Defect management and test tooling (JIRA, Zephyr/Xray, TestRail).
• Test data and environment management including compliant data.

Responsibilities

• Own the test approach for the squad's product area and embed quality across the lifecycle.
• Contribute to story refinement and own the testing and quality content of the Definition of Done.
• Ensure acceptance criteria are testable before work is committed.
• Design, maintain and execute functional, integration and end-to-end test cases.
• Build and maintain automated test suites across unit-support, API and UI/E2E layers and integrate them into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Coordinate or execute performance, load, resilience, security and accessibility testing as needed.
• Own contract testing for services the squad consumes and produces.
• Provide release-readiness assurance with clear evidence-based input.

Skills

QA Engineer

Agile

Test automation

CI/CD

API testing

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Contract testing

ISTQB

Reading code

Communication

Education

ISTQB certification

Agile/Scrum accreditation

Degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Postman

JIRA

Zephyr/Xray

TestRail

Job description

SThree is hiring a QA Engineer for permanent, hybrid work in London or Glasgow. You will own the test strategy across squads, embedding quality throughout the lifecycle and collaborating with engineers and product teams to validate acceptance criteria.

You will drive automated testing across API and UI layers, implement robust test patterns, and ensure fast feedback through CI/CD gateways, while leveraging ISTQB and Agile qualifications.