Senior QA Automation & Manual Testing Engineer

EF Education First; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

EF English Live in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to perform hands-on testing across Salesforce and Web tickets, applying risk-based coverage and expanding our AIO automation.

The role is genuinely hybrid, split between manual testing and automation work, and collaborates with the QA lead to raise the QA bar across tooling and processes for reliable releases. Fixed-term contract for 4–6 months.

Qualifications

• Hands-on manual and exploratory testing across web applications and CRM/Salesforce environments.
• Experience automating tests with Javascript/Typescript frameworks (Nightwatch.js, Cypress, Playwright).
• Experience with API and integration testing, validating data flows between Salesforce, web apps and third-party systems.
• Ability to split time between hands-on testing and automation work.

Responsibilities

• Provide thorough manual and exploratory testing across Salesforce and Web tickets, applying risk-based testing according to the nature and impact of each change.
• Prioritise regression testing to reduce the risk of shipping undetected issues.
• Extend and complement our existing AIO automation, identifying where additional tooling or approaches would provide better coverage or maintainability.
• Work alongside the existing QA lead and engineering team to raise the overall QA bar, across tooling and process.
• Partner with Business Systems and engineering leads to prioritise coverage based on commercial risk.
• Report to Business Systems Engineering leadership, with visibility on release risk and quality metrics shared with the wider team.

Skills

Manual testing

Exploratory testing

Salesforce CRM

JavaScript/TypeScript

API testing

Tools

Nightwatch.js

Cypress

Playwright

Job description

EF English Live in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to perform hands-on testing across Salesforce and Web tickets, applying risk-based coverage and expanding our AIO automation.

The role is genuinely hybrid, split between manual testing and automation work, and collaborates with the QA lead to raise the QA bar across tooling and processes for reliable releases. Fixed-term contract for 4–6 months.