Remote QA Engineer - API & Automation, CI/CD

Experis - ManpowerGroup; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis - ManpowerGroup in London is seeking a QA Engineer specialized in automation to design and maintain robust automation frameworks across API and UI components. You will integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and mentor junior engineers to raise quality standards.

You will investigate flaky tests, review automation code, and collaborate with developers, product managers and DevOps to ensure reliable, secure releases, including healthcare data considerations where applicable.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Strong expertise in API testing and automation; learning allowed.
• Solid programming skills in Java and Python.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience integrating automated tests into pipelines.
• Experience with SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to lead continuous improvement to make frameworks cleaner, faster and easier for others to build on.
• Confidence reviewing automation code, spotting issues early, and promoting good test coding habits.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve an automation approach across product area (API, UI, contract, component and more).
• Build, develop and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts.
• Integrate automation deeply into CI/CD pipelines, optimising parallel runs for deterministic, stable outputs.
• Investigate flaky tests, identify root causes, and drive reliability standards.
• Troubleshoot complex automation failures and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide meaningful reporting that highlights real risks, not just raw numbers.
• Review automation code and mentor junior/mid-level automation engineers.
• Create reusable components, utilities and libraries to improve efficiency and maintainability.
• Work with developers, product managers and DevOps engineers to ensure fast, stable, trustworthy releases.
• Support compliance and security alignment relevant to healthcare data systems (where applicable).

Skills

API testing

Automation frameworks

Java

Python

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

SDLC/STLC

Job description

Experis - ManpowerGroup in London is seeking a QA Engineer specialized in automation to design and maintain robust automation frameworks across API and UI components. You will integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and mentor junior engineers to raise quality standards.

You will investigate flaky tests, review automation code, and collaborate with developers, product managers and DevOps to ensure reliable, secure releases, including healthcare data considerations where applicable.