Senior QA Engineer - Distributed Systems & Kafka (Hybrid)

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

VirtueTech Recruitment Group in London is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own automation strategy in a fast-paced energy trading environment. You will build and maintain automation frameworks, focusing on reliability of distributed systems and Kafka-driven services.

The role demands TypeScript/Playwright expertise, strong manual, automated, and performance testing skills, and the ability to push quality left across Agile teams with cross‑functional partners.

Qualifications

• Proven experience using Playwright and TypeScript for automation testing.
• Strong understanding of manual, automated, and performance testing principles.
• Ability to build automation frameworks and POCs from scratch.
• Experience testing distributed systems, APIs, or event-driven architectures, including exposure to Kafka would be highly advantageous.
• Confident communicator who can challenge developers and promote quality-first practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript.
• Design and deliver POCs to validate and enhance testing tools and practices.
• Drive a Shift Left approach, embedding testing early in the development lifecycle.
• Lead improvements in regression and performance testing coverage across applications and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and stakeholders in an Agile / Kanban environment.
• Contribute to overall QA strategy, helping to define best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support the testing of event-driven architectures and integrations leveraging Kafka.

Skills

Playwright

TypeScript

Automation testing

Shift Left

Performance testing

Distributed systems testing

Agile / Kanban

Tools

Playwright

Kafka

Job description

VirtueTech Recruitment Group in London is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own automation strategy in a fast-paced energy trading environment. You will build and maintain automation frameworks, focusing on reliability of distributed systems and Kafka-driven services.

The role demands TypeScript/Playwright expertise, strong manual, automated, and performance testing skills, and the ability to push quality left across Agile teams with cross‑functional partners.