Staff QA Automation Engineer: AI Tests & Canary Deploys

Tem-Energy Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 94,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

25 days holiday

Remote first with flexible hours

Wellbeing budget

Job summary

Tem-Energy Limited is hiring a Staff QA Automation Engineer to shape how quality engineering works across tem. You will design frameworks and practices that empower engineering teams to test effectively and scale together.

The role sits in Platform, owning standards, tooling, and automation adoption as the product moves to a microservice architecture. You will lead canary testing, AI-driven improvements, and broad test coverage across services.

Qualifications

• Expertise in test automation frameworks including pytest, Playwright, Selenium, and API testing or similar.
• Experience architecting and maintaining test automation frameworks and tooling used across a wider engineering organisation.
• Deep knowledge of testing across microservice or distributed systems, including API-level automation, CI/CD integration, and service-level testing strategies.
• Experience leading innovation and PoCs in testing, particularly AI-led regression optimisation and change-risk analysis.
• Strong collaboration and delivery focus across multi-project environments and distributed teams.
• Contract testing or consumer/provider verification (Pact, OpenAPI schema validation, or similar).
• AWS infrastructure experience (Lambda, GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, deployment tooling).

Responsibilities

• Design the QA automation framework and standards for tem's Platform team.
• Own the quality engineering approach as the organisation scales, building tooling and adoption.
• Define automated pass/fail analysis for canary releases with production traffic signals.
• Lead AI-enhanced testing initiatives, including change-risk classification and mutation testing.

Skills

pytest

Playwright

Selenium

API testing

Tools

AWS infrastructure

GitHub Actions

Deployment tooling

Job description

Tem-Energy Limited is hiring a Staff QA Automation Engineer to shape how quality engineering works across tem. You will design frameworks and practices that empower engineering teams to test effectively and scale together.

The role sits in Platform, owning standards, tooling, and automation adoption as the product moves to a microservice architecture. You will lead canary testing, AI-driven improvements, and broad test coverage across services.