Senior QA Engineer | Hybrid (Birmingham) | Playwright & CI/CD

Searchability; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 10%

25 days holiday

8% pension contribution

Hybrid working 2 days in Birmingham

Volunteer days

Job summary

Searchability is seeking a Senior QA Engineer in Birmingham. You will own quality across the project, designing and maintaining automated tests, and integrating them into CI/CD. You’ll also mentor junior QAs and work with developers to ensure a quality-first SDLC.

The role requires hands-on test automation with Playwright or Selenium, plus JavaScript/Python/Java scripting. Hybrid working is available with two days in Birmingham and a performance-driven bonus up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in software testing and QA.
• Excellent test automation experience.
• Experience with Playwright, Selenium, JUnit or TestNG.
• Automation scripting experience with JavaScript, Python or Java.
• Strong knowledge of test planning, test case design and execution.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience coaching or mentoring other QA Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own quality within the project team and hands-on test planning, automation, execution and improvement.
• Design and maintain automated test scripts and contribute to the automation framework.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and run across non-functional testing.
• Coach or mentor other QA Engineers and collaborate with Developers to embed quality.
• Lead regression, performance, and load testing activities as part of releases.

Skills

QA testing

Test automation

Automation scripting

CI/CD

Test planning

Debugging

Mentoring

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

JUnit

TestNG

Job description

Searchability is seeking a Senior QA Engineer in Birmingham. You will own quality across the project, designing and maintaining automated tests, and integrating them into CI/CD. You’ll also mentor junior QAs and work with developers to ensure a quality-first SDLC.

The role requires hands-on test automation with Playwright or Selenium, plus JavaScript/Python/Java scripting. Hybrid working is available with two days in Birmingham and a performance-driven bonus up to 10%.