Senior QA Automation Engineer

Adria Solutions Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Adria Solutions Ltd is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead test strategy and drive quality across a modern digital platform. This hands-on role blends building automated frameworks with shaping testing practices within a growing engineering team.

You will collaborate with senior technology leaders and developers to ensure API and UI tests are robust, integrated into CI/CD, and capable of catching edge cases and performance concerns before release.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as QA Automation Engineer, Test Engineer or SDET and hands-on testing.
• Strong API and UI test automation skills.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of test pyramid and risk-based testing.
• Attention to detail and clear defect communication.

Responsibilities

• Establish a test strategy covering APIs, UI, integrations and end-to-end workflows.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD for fast feedback.
• Test complex transactions and data flows, including edge cases.
• Develop regression, integration and performance tests with security in mind.
• Investigate defects, document findings and verify fixes.
• Introduce QA standards, processes and tooling as the team grows.
• Collaborate with developers to build testability and share responsibility.

Skills

QA Automation

CI/CD

Test Pyramid

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

REST-assured

Job description

Adria Solutions is recruiting a Senior QA Automation Engineer for a technology business developing their digital platform. This hands-on role offers the opportunity to own test strategy, build an automation framework and shape quality practices within a growing engineering team.

Working closely with senior technology leadership and developers, you’ll help ensure the platform is reliable, secure and ready for release.

The role

• Establish a test strategy covering APIs, user interfaces, integrations and end-to-end workflows.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, actionable feedback.
• Test complex transactions and data flows, including edge cases and failure scenarios.
• Develop regression, integration and performance testing, incorporating security considerations.
• Investigate defects, clearly document findings and verify fixes.
• Introduce QA standards, processes and tooling as the team grows.
• Work with developers to build testability into the platform and make quality a shared responsibility.

About you

You’ll bring strong experience as a QA Automation Engineer, Test Engineer or SDET, with the confidence to establish testing practices and remain hands-on.

Your skills and experience will include:

• API and UI test automation using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or REST-assured.
• Integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• A sound understanding of the test pyramid and risk-based testing.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate defects clearly.
• Attention to detail when testing systems where accuracy and data integrity are essential.

Experience building automation frameworks from scratch, contract testing or testing distributed systems would be particularly valuable. Performance testing, security testing and experience in a regulated environment would also be advantageous.