Senior QA Automation Engineer — Build Reliable Test Pipelines

DFYNE; Uddingston; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

E-commerce or payments experience

Contract testing experience

Performance and load testing

Google Cloud Platform familiarity

Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build automated test frameworks, release safeguards and help prevent production issues before they occur.

You will own test infrastructure, automate regression coverage for core workflows and manage CI quality gates, collaborating with product, engineering and operations to ensure reliable releases.

You’ll join one of the UK's fastest-growing teams and help define quality engineering at DFYNE.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in QA Automation, SDET or software engineering with a quality focus.
• Strong TypeScript or Python development experience.
• Deep integration testing experience using real dependencies including databases, queues and simulated third‑party services.
• Strong Playwright, Cypress or equivalent end-to-end testing experience.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD quality gates, ideally using GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of automated testing strategies and risk-based testing approaches.
• Experience building scalable, maintainable test frameworks.
• Ability to write production‑quality code.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical capability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integration test infrastructure that runs against real databases and realistic service environments.
• Design and implement automated regression coverage across business-critical workflows.
• Own CI quality gates and contribute to release readiness processes.
• Develop end-to-end testing coverage for revenue-critical customer journeys.
• Create and maintain realistic and secure test data strategies.
• Work closely with engineers to identify and prevent quality risks early in the development lifecycle.
• Improve test reliability, execution speed and developer adoption.
• Support incident investigations by identifying testing gaps and opportunities for preventative coverage.
• Contribute to engineering standards, software quality practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Operations teams to ensure quality requirements are understood and delivered.

Skills

QA Automation

TypeScript

Python

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

End-to-end testing

Databases

Production-quality code

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build automated test frameworks, release safeguards and help prevent production issues before they occur.

You will own test infrastructure, automate regression coverage for core workflows and manage CI quality gates, collaborating with product, engineering and operations to ensure reliable releases.

You’ll join one of the UK's fastest-growing teams and help define quality engineering at DFYNE.