Senior Automation Engineer – SDET

Cpl Group; Connacht; Hybrid; EUR 92,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Investment Organisation, based in Galway, seeks a Senior Automation Engineer to join on a long-term rolling contract. The role focuses on delivering robust automation across front-end and API layers using Playwright and Karate, with JavaScript/TypeScript code, CI practices and in-house tools.

The ideal candidate will have 6+ years in software quality engineering, strong test automation experience, and excellent collaboration and communication across global teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years Software Quality Engineering experience
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks
• Ability to develop and execute automation tests and strategies
• Expertise in both front end and API automation, Playwright and Karate
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with requirement analysis, defect tracking, coordinating with team members in different locations, and test reporting and signoff
• Experience with CI practices and automated deployment tools
• Ability to adapt to new environments and learn in-house developed tools and practices

Responsibilities

• Actively drive a quality mindset across the team, influencing quality engineering behaviours and practices
• Work collaboratively with the team to determine suitable test automation frameworks and strategies within the realm of approved tools and standards
• Participate in all team meetings including planning, refinement, planning, sprint demos, reviews and retrospectives
• Work with engineering and business colleagues to define acceptance criteria
• Analyze and report test results and articulate release readiness from a QE perspective
• Develop an understanding of the business domain and contribute to technology discussions with partners
• Contribute to test automation code and practices
• Contribute to engineering practices such as code/design reviews and build/deployment pipeline

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Team collaboration

AI-assisted coding

GitHub Copilot usage

Tools

Jira

Xray

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Key Details

• Galway Hybrid


• Long Term Contract


• Daily Rate

Global Investment Organisation based in Galway is looking for a Senior Automation Engineer to join their team. This is a long term rolling contract.

Experience

• 6+ years Software Quality Engineering experience


• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks


• The ability to develop and execute automation tests and strategies


• Expertise in both front end and API automation, experience using established frameworks like Playwright and Karate


• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript


• Experience with requirement analysis, defect tracking, coordinating with team members in different locations, and test reporting and signoff


• Experience with continuous integration practices and automated deployment tools


• Ability to adapt to new environments and learn in-house developed tools and practices

Skills

• Strong analytical and technical skills to address complex issues and the ability to perform root cause analysis on defects


• Excellent communication skills


• Jira and Xray a plus


• Experience with GitHub Copilot or other AI-assisted development tools


• Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot to generate, optimize, and maintain test automation code and engineering documentation


• Experience reviewing AI-generated automation code and test artifacts to validate accuracy, maintainability, security, and adherence to engineering standards.


• Familiarity with prompt engineering techniques to improve GitHub Copilot output quality and consistency


• The ability to mine and manipulate data to create test data and test cases for projects

The Purpose of your role and value you will deliver

• Actively drive a quality mindset across the team, influencing the broader team in quality engineering behaviours and practices


• Work collaboratively with the team to determine suitable test automation frameworks and strategies within the realm of the company approved tools and standards


• Actively participate in all team meetings including planning, refinement, planning, sprint demos, reviews and retrospectives


• Work collaboratively with engineering and business colleagues to define acceptance criteria


• Analyze and report test results and articulate product release readiness from a QE perspective


• Develop a strong understanding of the business domain you are working on and actively contribute to technology discussions with business partners and other external parties


• Actively contribute to test automation code and practices


• Actively contribute to engineering practices such as code and design reviews and the definition of source control strategy, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipeline

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