Senior QA Engineer (Axe core, Java, Playwright ,Typescript)

Salt Digital Recruitment; Greater London; Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior QA Engineer with expertise in automated testing tools like Playwright or Cypress. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in API testing and a proactive approach to quality assurance. This remote role involves writing and maintaining tests, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring high standards of quality in software delivery. The contract is for 3 months with a competitive day rate.

Qualifications

• Experience with automated testing using Playwright or Cypress.
• Proficiency in API testing and familiarity with performance testing.
• Ability to communicate defects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Write, maintain, and improve automated tests for quality assurance.
• Collaborate with developers and product managers on testing requirements.
• Perform manual testing and maintain documentation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Debugging skills

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Java

Rest-assured

JUnit

Postman

Python

Kotlin

Gatling

Job description

Senior QA Engineer (Axe core, Java, Playwright or Cypress, Typescript) – Remote

Day rate: £350 – £450 (Inside IR35)

Duration: 3 months

Start: ASAP

My new client is looking for a dedicated and proactive Senior QA Engineer with a strong background in automated testing to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Playwright or Cypress and a solid understanding of API testing as well as a keen eye for detail. Proficiency in Python, experience with accessibility or performance testing would also be a bonus. This role has a primary focus on writing, maintaining and improving automated tests to support our automation-first approach to quality.

Required skills:

You are a confident communicator with stakeholders including developers, product managers, and business analysts, you understand requirements and provide feedback on quality and testability. You participate in design and refinement discussions to identify any issues early in the development lifecycle and build an understanding of the mechanisms by which a feature can be tested.

You can design, implement, and maintain automated tests across backend APIs and frontend UI. You can constructively communicate with other engineers via peer review of code, collaborate effectively and share knowledge in an effective way. You drive best practices in testing and code quality.

You can perform manual testing where required to complement automated tests and familiarise yourself with the application, over time becoming the subject matter expert. You apply this knowledge to write and maintain up-to-date documentation.

You effectively communicate defects, working closely with the product owner to understand impact and contribute to prioritisation efforts.

Required testing skills and experience:

• UI Tools: Playwright, typescript
• You have strong analytical and debugging skills.
• You can analyse features, design, implement execute automated tests as part of the continuous delivery process within a development team.
• You develop and maintain integration and end-to-end test suites, test data and test lifecycle and you ensure that tests remain valid, are reliably executed and run in a repeatable way.
• API Tools: Java, Rest-assured, maven, JUnit, Allure
• You can analyse, design and implement automated test cases for API endpoints to ensure that requirements are met, industry standards are upheld, and documentation is correct.
• You are confident with tools such as curl or Postman for ease of communication within the team.
• You are competent in reading client bug reports, including logs, and reproducing errors to support developers diagnosing issues across the stack.

Preferred skills:

• Tools: Python, Kotlin, maven, Gatling, Axe core You have some experience writing, maintaining and using mock services for use in automated tests.
• We use mock services to generate data that usually comes from 3rd parties, giving us control of the data and ability to simulate errors on demand.
• You have some experience designing, implementing and executing API performance and load tests.
• We use gatling to drive our API tests and monitor key application metrics from these in addition to built-in response time reports.
• You have some exposure to accessibility standards such as WCAG or ADA, you have experience running manual or automated accessibility checks such as axe core and integrating these into a continuous delivery pipeline.

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements

Job Information

Job Reference: JO-2505-353567

Salary: £350 - £450 per day

Salary per: day

Job Duration: 3 months

Job Start Date: ASAP

Job Industries: Testing & Quality Assurance Jobs

Job Locations: Greater London

Job Types: Contract

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