Remote Test Automation Engineer – SaaS Quality Leader

Cpl Group; Galway; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Covalen is hiring a Test Automation Engineer to design, build and own automated testing for our B2B SaaS platform. This remote role allows you to work from anywhere in the Republic of Ireland, collaborating with developers, DevOps and product stakeholders to raise quality standards across releases.

You will replace manual testing with reliable automation in CI/CD, define quality gates, monitor test health and mentor teammates in automation practices, with opportunities to explore AI-assisted

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in test automation within a commercial software or B2B SaaS environment.
• Strong programming ability in at least one of Python, Java, C# or JavaScript/TypeScript, with the capability to build and maintain a framework rather than only write scripts.
• Hands‑on experience with modern UI automation tooling such as Playwright, Selenium or Cypress.
• Demonstrable experience automating API and integration testing (for example REST Assured, Postman/Newman, pytest or equivalent).
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps, and working with source control and branching workflows.
• Solid grounding in test design: risk‑based prioritisation, coverage analysis, and knowing what should and should not be automated.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Native proficiency in spoken and written English, with the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks covering functional, regression, API and end-to-end scenarios.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites for web applications, REST APIs and platform integrations.
• Identify existing manual test cases suitable for automation, prioritise them by risk and effort, and systematically convert them.
• Build and manage the test data, environments and fixtures needed to run suites reliably and repeatably.
• Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines so that quality feedback is delivered on every build.
• Define and maintain quality gates, coverage targets and release criteria alongside engineering leads.
• Monitor suite health, investigate and eliminate flaky tests, and keep execution times within acceptable limits.
• Report on quality metrics — coverage, pass rates, defect escape rates — and use them to drive improvement.
• Work with developers, DevOps and product stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and testable requirements from the outset.
• Perform exploratory and risk-based testing where automation is not appropriate, and carry out root-cause analysis on escaped defects.
• Support non-functional testing, including performance, load and security-related validation.
• Mentor colleagues in automation practice and promote quality ownership across the wider team.
• Evaluate and adopt new tooling, including AI-assisted testing approaches, where it demonstrably improves coverage or reduces effort.

Skills

Test automation

Python

Java

C#

JavaScript/TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology, engineering or computer science

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Postman

Newman

pytest

Azure DevOps

Job description

Covalen is hiring a Test Automation Engineer to design, build and own automated testing for our B2B SaaS platform. This remote role allows you to work from anywhere in the Republic of Ireland, collaborating with developers, DevOps and product stakeholders to raise quality standards across releases.

You will replace manual testing with reliable automation in CI/CD, define quality gates, monitor test health and mentor teammates in automation practices, with opportunities to explore AI-assisted