Test Automation Engineer

Right at Home UK; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A premium homecare provider in the UK is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer for an 18-month fixed-term contract. The role involves building and embedding an automation layer for their care management solution, requiring expertise in automation testing and a disciplined approach to quality. While remote work is emphasized, candidates will need to travel to Birmingham for team meetings. Competitive salary of £40-45k DoE and various employee benefits are offered, including a company pension and private healthcare.

Benefits

23 days annual leave

Salary sacrifice company pension

Salary sacrifice EV scheme

Contribution to private healthcare

Birthday leave

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and implementing automated tests using a modern automation framework.
• Strong understanding of testing APIs and UIs.
• Ability to document testing processes clearly for maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing testing processes and identify automation opportunities.
• Build automated test suites for critical user journeys.
• Support manual testing where it adds value.

Skills

Automation testing

Test architecture

OOP understanding

Analytical approach

Reliability focus

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

AzureDevOps

Python

Typescript

Git

MariaDB

Appian test tools

Job description

Test Automation Engineer

Location: Remote with requirement to travel 4-weekly to Birmingham for team meetings.

Hours: Full-time 9-5 Mon-Fri

Term: Fixed-term contract (18 months)

Salary: £40-45k DoE.

Right at Home UK is one of the country’s leading premium homecare provider delivering high-quality care to vulnerable adults in their own homes.

We are evolving our in-house care management solution, RightCareHQ (RCHQ). RCHQ is built on a Cloud based Platform, with a view to imminently expand further using Next.js and LLM models to support AI-first processes.

We are seeking a Test Automation Engineer on an 18-month fixed-term contract to focus on building and embedding a sustainable automation layer for RCHQ.

Benefits

• 23 days annual leave (increasing with time served) plus bank holidays.
• Salary sacrifice company pension.
• Salary Sacrifice EV scheme.
• Contribution to private healthcare.
• Birthday leave.

The role

• Reporting to the Technical Lead, you’ll be working in a small, fast-paced team. Day-to-day, you will:
• Analyse existing testing processes and identify where automation delivers the highest value.
• Build automated test suites for critical user journeys using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar.
• Create robust, maintainable scripts the team can continue using after your contract finishes.
• Design regression packs that are repeatable, readable, and scalable.
• Challenge unclear requirements and actively improve acceptance criteria.
• Help us move from reactive manual testing to proactive, automated quality.
• Support manual testing where it adds value, especially for edge cases or exploratory testing.

Your success in this role is measured not by the volume of tests written, but by: ‘Can the team continue delivering quality confidently after you leave?’

What we’re looking for

• Designing and implementing automated tests using a modern automation framework.
• Understanding test architecture, selectors, mocks, stubs, fixtures, and assertions.
• Understanding of relational databases.
• Testing APIs, UIs, and complex user flows for safety critical aspects of RCHQ.
• Turning vague requirements into clear test scenarios.
• Documenting your work in a way others can maintain.
• Building testing processes that scale beyond your contract period.
• Have a strong understanding of OOP and are comfortable writing quality code.

Preferred, not essential

• AzureDevOps, Figma, Python, Typescript, Git, MariaDB.

• Experience of Playwright

• Experience of Appian test tools (e.g. Cucumber, Fitnesse)

About you

• You take a disciplined, analytical approach to testing, with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and repeatability.
• You understand the real-world impact of failure on vulnerable people and treat testing as a critical safeguard.
• You take ownership, communicate, and design robust tests that prevent issues from recurring.
• You value automation for the speed, safety, and scalability it provides, applying sound judgement to protect both Clients and Carers.