Remote-First Test Automation Engineer (Cypress/API)

Cavendish Professionals; City of Westminster; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Flexible hours

Work-life balance

Job summary

Cavendish (Recruitment) Professionals Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a QA automation specialist to help replace a journalist reporting solution with a MARS-based application. You will craft and sustain automated UI tests (Cypress/Playwright) and API tests (Postman, Newman) within a CI/CD pipeline, ensuring robust end-to-end coverage.

The role focuses on building automation frameworks from scratch, working with JavaScript and Java, and improving processes in an environment with limited

Qualifications

• Experience with test automation using Cypress, Playwright, or a similar JavaScript-based framework.
• Hands-on experience with API testing using Postman.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript.
• Basic familiarity with Java.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Comfortable working across both manual and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Perform both manual and automated testing with a strong focus on test automation.
• Develop and maintain automated UI tests using Cypress (JavaScript).
• Perform API testing using Postman collections, executed through Newman in the CI/CD pipeline.
• Evaluate opportunities to consolidate UI and API testing into a single automation framework.
• Build and maintain test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Identify gaps in the existing testing approach and establish appropriate testing processes and practices.
• Collaborate with development and project teams to clarify requirements and ensure adequate test coverage.
• Communicate and present automation solutions, including the reasoning behind framework and design decisions.

Skills

Test automation

Cypress

Playwright

JavaScript

Java basics

API testing

CI/CD

Automation framework design

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Postman

Newman

Job description

Cavendish (Recruitment) Professionals Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a QA automation specialist to help replace a journalist reporting solution with a MARS-based application. You will craft and sustain automated UI tests (Cypress/Playwright) and API tests (Postman, Newman) within a CI/CD pipeline, ensuring robust end-to-end coverage.

The role focuses on building automation frameworks from scratch, working with JavaScript and Java, and improving processes in an environment with limited