Senior Automation Quality Engineer

CreateFuture; Greater London, Leeds, Manchester, City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK digital consultancy is seeking a Quality Engineer to join their Build team. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance digital products through effective testing practices. The ideal candidate should have experience with CI pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and excellent communication skills. The company values a supportive culture and offers generous benefits including ample holidays and professional coaching opportunities.

Benefits

35 days holiday

Enhanced parental leave

1-1 professional financial coaching

Pension matched up to 5%

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering automation in CI pipelines using GitHub, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience in automated testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Rest-Assured.
• Willingness to work in different programming languages and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Work within cross-functional teams to plan, test, and improve digital products.
• Design and execute test plans using both manual checks and automation.
• Report bugs clearly and constructively to prioritise and fix issues.

Skills

Automation in CI pipelines

Automated testing frameworks

Great communication skills

Team working skills

Tools

GitHub

Bitbucket

Azure DevOps

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Rest-Assured

Job description

Overview

Working at CreateFuture: CreateFuture is a UK digital consultancy with offices in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and remote employees nationwide. We are a team of creators building digital products and services for major organisations while putting our people first.

Our reputation as a partner that delivers high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has helped us grow to over 500 people. We are recognised by Best Workplaces UK across several categories and maintain a low employee exit rate. Join us on our journey to create something awesome, together, today.

About the role: We’re looking for a Quality Engineer to join our Build team—someone who brings curiosity, technical rigour, and a love of solving problems with others.

This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while working on a variety of real-world products. You’ll collaborate with developers, designers, and clients to embed quality from the start—using smart testing practices to catch issues early and deliver work we can all be proud of.

What you’ll be doing

• Work within cross-functional teams to plan, test and improve digital products and services.
• Understand systems under test and iterate on your approach throughout the project.
• Design and execute test plans using tools that fit the job—from manual checks to automation.
• Report bugs clearly and constructively, helping the team prioritise and fix issues quickly.
• Learn and apply best practices in functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Share knowledge within the team, contributing to our quality standards and continuous improvement.

We\'d love to talk to you if you have

• Experience in delivering automation in CI pipelines using systems such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps
• Experience in automated testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium and Rest-Assured
• Willingness to work in different programming languages and frameworks
• Great communication and team working skills

What we’ll offer you

We challenge ourselves to go beyond the obvious and care deeply about our craft and customers. You’ll have ambitious projects, opportunities to learn and grow, and a safe, supportive and friendly culture.

• Total 35 days holiday (flexible bank holidays)
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• 1-1 professional financial coaching
• Pension - matched up to 5%

View our complete list of benefits. We are flexible about commuting to hub locations and travel to client sites and CreateFuture regional offices. We trust you to manage your own schedule to balance face-to-face time with clients, colleagues and working from home.

Next steps

Our TA team aims to respond to all applications within a reasonable timeframe. Our process:

• 30 minute call with our Talent Acquisition Team
• 30 min Competency based interview

CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work Certified company. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and will support reasonable adjustments during the application process if needed.

We look forward to your application!