Senior QA Engineer - 12 month maternity contract

Connexity | Skimlinks, a Taboola company; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior QA Engineer in London. This role involves leading the quality strategy, automation ownership, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of experience, expert-level skills in test automation, and proficiency in Python or JavaScript. The company offers a hybrid work environment and a range of benefits, including healthcare and flexible schedules.

Benefits

Healthcare insurance

Parental Leave Policies

Flexible work schedules

Lunch paid when attending the office

Wellness Resources

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in quality assurance roles.
• Expert-level experience in test automation tools.
• Proficient in Python or JavaScript for scripting.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality strategy for features.
• Design and maintain test automation across UI and APIs.
• Mentor engineers and conduct code/test reviews.

Skills

Cypress

Postman

Pytest

Cucumber

SQL validation

CI/CD tools

Python

JavaScript

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

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Skimlinks, a Taboola company, is looking for a Senior QA Engineer to take a leadership role in test strategy, quality execution, and automation ownership across squads or product areas. This role is ideal for someone who's already thriving in mid-senior QA roles and is now ready to shape quality processes, mentor others, and build automation that scales.

You'll operate with autonomy, partner closely with engineering and product, and help ensure we ship software that's not just functional - but reliable, fast, and user-centric.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end quality strategy for high-impact features, services, or user flows.
• Design, build, and maintain test automation across UI and APIs using Cypress, Postman, Pytest, and Cucumber.
• Drive cross-squad testing efforts (e.g., integration testing, data validation, shared workflows).
• Work with DevOps and engineers to optimize CI/CD quality gates and feedback loops.
• Mentor engineers and conduct code/test reviews, pairing sessions, or workshops.
• Analyze flakiness, test debt, or regressions - and design solutions to prevent future occurrences.
• Define and track quality metrics, ensuring reliable release readiness.
• Propose and lead technical initiatives to improve tooling, infrastructure, or quality processes.
• Collaborate closely with Support teams to triage customer-reported issues, reproduce bugs, and ensure clear, actionable tickets are created for engineering.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of experience in quality assurance roles, with increasing technical scope and responsibility.

• Expert-level experience in:
• Cypress, Postman, Pytest, Cucumber
• SQL-based validation and backend testing
• CI/CD tools and test integration workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Demonstrated ability to lead test strategy and delivery across multiple squads or features.
• Proficient in Python or JavaScript for scripting and automation tooling.
• Strong collaboration skills across QA, engineering, and product functions.

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing shared test libraries or automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with test observability and monitoring (e.g. Sentry).
• Exposure to performance or chaos testing concepts.
• Experience in testing within microservices, containers, and cloud-native systems (e.g. GCP).

Benefits

Voted "Best Places to Work," our culture is driven by self-starters, team players, and visionaries. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, EMEA and APAC. We offer top benefits including Annual Leave Entitlement, paid holidays, competitive comp, team events and more!

• Healthcare insurance & Medicash
• Parental Leave Policies
• Flexible work schedules and work from home/work from office policy
• Lunch paid when attending the office
• Wellness Resources

We are committed to providing a culture at Skimlinks that supports the diversity, equity and inclusion of our most valuable asset, our people. We encourage individuality, and are driven to represent a workplace that celebrates our differences, and provides opportunities equally across gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and all other demographics. Our actions across Education, Recruitment, Retention, and Volunteering reflect our core company values and remind us that we're all in this together to drive positive change in our industry.

This position is hybrid (3 days / week) and based in our London office.

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