Senior QA Automation Architect — Hybrid Dublin, Growth & Benefits

Cpl Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Private medical insurance

Pension

Life insurance

Wellbeing supports

Learning, development and career prog.

Job summary

Cpl Recruitment are partnering with a leading global financial services organization to recruit a QA Automation Architect for its Dublin technology team. This senior role focuses on designing, developing and continuously improving enterprise automation frameworks supporting complex financial applications.

The position requires hands-on automation expertise with Java, Playwright, Selenium and API testing, plus strong leadership to guide multi-disciplinary teams in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in QA engineering, software testing and test automation.
• Advanced Java development skills with experience building or extending automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber and RestAssured.
• Strong understanding of API, UI and automated application testing.
• Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD environments.
• Good knowledge of Git-based version control and modern software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and ongoing development of enterprise test automation frameworks.
• Take technical ownership of automation solutions built primarily around Java, Playwright and API testing technologies.
• Establish strong engineering practices around automation, code quality and reusable framework components.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews and support to engineers working across automation initiatives.
• Work with application, development and QA teams to identify opportunities for effective automation.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery processes.
• Help define automation standards, best practices and development approaches across the wider technology environment.
• Act as a senior technical point of contact between QA, engineering, project and business stakeholders.

Skills

QA engineering

Java development

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cucumber

RestAssured

Git

SQL

Job description

Cpl Recruitment are partnering with a leading global financial services organization to recruit a QA Automation Architect for its Dublin technology team. This senior role focuses on designing, developing and continuously improving enterprise automation frameworks supporting complex financial applications.

The position requires hands-on automation expertise with Java, Playwright, Selenium and API testing, plus strong leadership to guide multi-disciplinary teams in a regulated environment.