Senior QA Engineer - Automation Lead (Playwright)

Waracle; Glasgow, City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Waracle is looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our UK-based digital technology consultancy. This contract (Inside IR35) runs for 6 months with a hybrid setup, requiring you to be in one of our Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dundee offices for 2 days a week.

You will define quality strategies, build scalable automation with Playwright, and work across SDLC with C# or TypeScript. Strong collaboration, risk analysis, and testing of performance, security, and accessibility are essential.

Qualifications

• QA best practices across SDLC and Agile.
• Experience building automation frameworks.
• Hands-on with Playwright for scalable tests.
• Proficient in C# or TypeScript for testing web apps.
• Strong collaboration and risk-aware testing mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define testing strategies for complex features and guide exploratory testing.
• Build, extend and maintain modular automation components.
• Integrate quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Design tests for performance, security and accessibility.

Skills

QA Expertise

Automation Mastery

Programming Skills

Technical Mastery

Problem-Solving Mindset

Communication & Domain Adaptability

Playwright

C# or TypeScript

Job description

Waracle is looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our UK-based digital technology consultancy. This contract (Inside IR35) runs for 6 months with a hybrid setup, requiring you to be in one of our Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dundee offices for 2 days a week.

You will define quality strategies, build scalable automation with Playwright, and work across SDLC with C# or TypeScript. Strong collaboration, risk analysis, and testing of performance, security, and accessibility are essential.