Senior QA Automation Engineer: Lead Automation & CI/CD

remotestar-team; Cambourne; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Remotestar-team in Cambourne, United Kingdom, seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead automated testing across web, mobile (Android/iOS), and API platforms. You will design and maintain frameworks, drive quality initiatives, and embed testing throughout the SDLC.

You will build test plans, implement data validation, and integrate tests into CI/CD, partnering with developers and product teams to ensure reliable releases and scalable quality practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of QA experience, both manual and automated.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end testing lifecycle and ensure product quality.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain test plans, scenarios, and cases.
• Translate complex requirements into test strategies and coverage.
• Map requirements to test cases; develop integration, system, regression, and end-to-end tests.
• Lead defect management including RCA, triage, and release sign-off.
• Validate complex business logic and data accuracy.
• Perform data validation using SQL, Excel, and data tie-out techniques.
• Develop and run data tie-out testing between sources, reports, and downstream apps.
• Test RESTful APIs and ensure data integrity.
• Create and optimize automated test frameworks and regression suites.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for faster releases.
• Continuously improve testing processes and automation coverage.

Skills

QA Automation

Automation Testing

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

API Testing

SQL Validation

Mobile Testing

Debugging RCA

Tools

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

Cypress

Appium

Postman

Swagger/OpenAPI

REST Assured

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jira

TestRail

Xray

Job description

Remotestar-team in Cambourne, United Kingdom, seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead automated testing across web, mobile (Android/iOS), and API platforms. You will design and maintain frameworks, drive quality initiatives, and embed testing throughout the SDLC.

You will build test plans, implement data validation, and integrate tests into CI/CD, partnering with developers and product teams to ensure reliable releases and scalable quality practices.