Senior QA Automation Engineer

Benifex; Southampton; Hybride; GBP 50 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro

£/€800 annual learning budget, plus 2h

Flexible work – see you in office once

25 days holiday

Your birthday off

Two wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan

Employee Assistance Plan 24/7

Income Protection (75%)

Life assurance (4x salary)

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental leave

Work from Anywhere 90 days

Buy and Sell holidays

£50 monthly Benifex card

Résumé du poste

Benifex Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to shape and drive quality engineering practices across our technology teams from Southampton. You will work with engineers, product managers and QA professionals to champion automation and embed quality earlier in the software development lifecycle, evolving testing frameworks and feedback loops.

This role offers a strong learning budget, flexible hybrid work, and opportunities to impact products used by millions

Qualifications

• Proven QA automation experience in senior or lead roles.
• Strong automation mindset and modern QA practices.
• Hands-on with Cypress, Selenium or Playwright.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence and agile delivery.

Responsabilités

• Champion automated testing across teams.
• Design and maintain automated test frameworks and solutions.
• Define, execute and enhance exploratory, functional and automated testing strategies.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers and the wider QA Chapter.
• Identify opportunities to increase automation coverage and improve product quality.
• Advocate for and implement shift-left testing practices across the lifecycle.
• Manage quality gates and support successful product releases.
• Contribute to QA strategy, tooling and standards across the organisation.
• Support performance, scalability and non-functional testing activities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Connaissances

Automation testing

Cypress

Selenium

Playwright

JUnit

Postman

Quality engineering

Shift-left

Jira

Confluence

TypeScript

.NET

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

MongoDB

Description du poste

Great benefits

£50,000 - £70,000

Who are Benifex?

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.

Why should you apply?

• Play a leading role in driving Benifex's shift-left quality strategy and help shape how quality engineering is embedded across our technology teams.
• Champion an automation-first mindset, identifying opportunities to improve product quality, delivery efficiency and feedback loops at scale.
• Influence engineering teams and stakeholders by promoting modern QA practices and helping teams adopt proactive approaches to quality.
• Work on products used by millions of employees globally, collaborating with talented engineers, product managers and QA professionals across the organisation.
• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and employee benefits space

Great benefits

• Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)
• £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.
• Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.
• Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more
• 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays
• Your birthday off
• Two half day wellbeing days
• Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare
• Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support
• Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
• Referral bonuses
• Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days
• Buy and Sell scheme for holidays
• £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to help shape and drive quality engineering practices across our technology teams. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, product managers and the wider QA Chapter to champion automation and embed quality earlier in the software development lifecycle. You will play a critical role in evolving our testing frameworks, improving feedback loops and supporting the delivery of scalable, reliable products used by millions of employees worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about quality engineering, automation and continuous improvement to make a significant impact across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Champion automated testing and promote an automation-first approach across teams.
• Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks and solutions.
• Define, execute and enhance exploratory, functional and automated testing strategies.
• Collaborate closely with engineers throughout refinement, design, development and delivery activities.
• Identify opportunities to increase automation coverage and improve product quality.
• Advocate for and implement shift-left testing practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Manage quality gates and support successful product releases.
• Contribute to QA strategy, tooling, standards and best practices across the organisation.
• Support performance, scalability and non-functional testing activities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience in a QA Automation Engineer, Senior QA Engineer or Quality Engineering role.
• Strong passion for test automation and modern quality engineering practices.
• Experience working with automation tools and frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, JUnit, Postman or Sauce Labs.
• Experience embedding quality earlier in the development process through shift-left testing practices.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies and the testing pyramid.
• Experience working within agile software development environments.
• Knowledge of both manual and automated testing approaches.
• Understanding of programming languages, ideally .NET and/or TypeScript.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence and other agile delivery tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively in distributed teams.
• Passion for learning, continuous improvement and adopting new technologies.

Bonus points for

• Experience testing within cloud-based environments.
• Experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience working with MongoDB.
• TypeScript development experience.
• Exposure to SwiftUI or React Native applications.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow.

Our internal interview process

• Initial interview with the Talent team
• Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team
• Final Bar Raiser interview with a senior engineering leader

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.