Staff QA Automation Engineer — Remote & AI‑Driven QA

AI Startups UK; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

25 days holiday

Remote first

Wellbeing budgets

Job summary

tem is hiring a Staff QA Automation Engineer to shape how quality engineering scales across the Platform team. You’ll design the frameworks and practices that let them test well themselves, and scale into the future.

As we scale, you’ll lead and develop scripts that equip engineering teams with the automation and standards to own quality themselves. The product is built on a microservice architecture that brings real complexity to testing.

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

• A risk-aware CI testing standard any team can run: a dependency model that drives test selection and breaking-change detection, so most PRs get a fast targeted run with a clear confidence signal at the point of change.
• Unit, integration, and contract testing standards with an observability layer that keeps pipelines honest and not flaky.
• The quality side of canary releases: defining automated pass/fail analysis against production traffic for deployments.
• AI in the quality pipeline: LLM-based change-risk classification, targeted mutation testing, test generation, and self-healing checks.

Skills

pytest

Playwright

Selenium

API testing

AI-led testing

Pact/OpenAPI validation

AWS infra

Tools

Pact

OpenAPI

Job description

tem is hiring a Staff QA Automation Engineer to shape how quality engineering scales across the Platform team. You’ll design the frameworks and practices that let them test well themselves, and scale into the future.

As we scale, you’ll lead and develop scripts that equip engineering teams with the automation and standards to own quality themselves. The product is built on a microservice architecture that brings real complexity to testing.