Senior Automation Engineer: QA Lead for SaaS

AQMetrics; Maynooth; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance fully paid.

Flexible working

Bike to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Upskilling opportunities

Active Social Club with events

Job summary

AQMetrics seeks an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to own the test automation framework for its SaaS platform, covering UI (Angular), API, and data layers. You will design the automation architecture, set standards, and drive quality across the software delivery lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product owners to shift-left testing, while integrating tests into CI/CD and reporting key quality metrics.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years in software testing, with at least 4–5 years in test automation.
• End-to-end ownership of an automation framework.
• Experience scaling UI automation for a single-page app (Angular preferred).
• Experience automating API tests with REST Assured, Postman; tests in JUnit/TestNG.
• Strong SQL skills for data validation strategies across layers.
• Experience in CI/CD integration (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• Ability to lead and review automation code; mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and architecture of test automation across UI, API and data layers.
• Define automation strategy and roadmap with Engineering Manager.
• Set standards for automated testing; lead by example with hands-on work.
• Mentor junior and mid-level Automation Engineers; review code.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD; reduce flaky tests.
• Collaborate with leads and product owners to embed quality early (shift-left).
• Design SQL-based data validation and API contract testing across stack.
• Report quality metrics like coverage, defects, and regression cycles.

Skills

Automation framework design

Mentoring engineers

Agile/Scrum

Strong communication

End-to-end testing

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

ISTQB Advanced Level or equivalent (asset)

Tools

Playwright

REST Assured

Postman

JUnit/TestNG

SQL

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Pact

k6

JMeter

Job description

AQMetrics seeks an experienced Senior Automation Engineer to own the test automation framework for its SaaS platform, covering UI (Angular), API, and data layers. You will design the automation architecture, set standards, and drive quality across the software delivery lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product owners to shift-left testing, while integrating tests into CI/CD and reporting key quality metrics.