Senior QA Automation Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to enhance the quality of their digital experience for over one million members. This position focuses on leading quality assurance across mobile apps and digital platforms, ensuring top-tier testing standards and effective collaboration with teams and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise in automation and functional exploratory testing.
• Experience with mobile app QA tools.
• Strong test planning skills and quality-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance efforts for The Gym Group’s mobile app and digital platforms.
• Maintain and evolve the mobile app test automation framework.
• Work closely with internal teams and external suppliers to enhance testing standards.

Skills

Automation testing

Functional exploratory testing

Test planning

Tools

Appium

Playwright

Postman

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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Troi Search are delighted to be working exclusively with The Gym Group in their search for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join the team.

The Senior QA Engineer will play a key role in ensuring a seamless, high-quality digital experience for The Gym Group's 1 million members by leading quality assurance efforts across the mobile app and digital platforms.

You'll work closely with internal teams and external suppliers to uphold and improve testing standards, with a strong focus on maintaining and evolving their mobile app test automation framework built on Appium.

Key requirements:

We’re looking for someone who can clearly demonstrate hands-on expertise across both automation and functional exploratory testing, with strong test planning skills and a quality-first mindset. You should have solid experience using key QA tools on Mobile Apps, including:

• Appium
• Playwright
• Postman (API Platform)
• Confluence for test and project documentation
• Continuous Integration tools

Bonus points for experience with:

• An object-oriented programming language such as C# or Java
• Lighthouse for performance testing (scripting and CI integration)
• Sonar for security analysis (scripting and CI integration)
• Lucidchart or Miro for visual test documentation
• Jira/Confluence or similar tools for managing user stories and sprint tasks