**QA Automation Engineer - £55-70,000 per annum base + benefits – London (2 days per week in the office)**
We are recruiting for an QA Automation Engineer to work on an established trading system development project with a large enterprise client, handling millions of dollars of traded value each day.
What you’ll be doing:
* Building and maintaining automated test pipelines utilising Playwright tests
* Analyse, understand, and review the products’ functional and non-functional requirements and identify gaps and inconsistencies
* Develop automated tests for software validation, ensuring high quality of the system
* As part of the QA team, take ownership of quality aspects of the system
* Report and manage/triage existing defects, ensuring proper follow-up and actions are being taken by the team
* Promote and adopt QA best practices, contributing to their continuous improvement
* Contribute to the definition of test automation guidelines and standards in order to improve the software testing process
Requirements:
* QA Engineering Experience (software testing experience).
* At least three years experience writing automated tests for web and/or non-web based applications
* Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes with fluency in Javascript/Typescript and Git/GitHub
* Knowledge of Jest, Playwright and BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber)
Nice to have:
* Experience of high volume, high availability, high stakes enterprise systems
* Experience building and/or testing REST and/or web socket based APIs
* Experience with trading applications (in production)
* Performance testing experience with K6, Artillery or similar
Benefits:
* 5 days/per year for training
* £1,000 annual allowance for training (up to 50% of this value can be used for you to buy workstation equipment to work from home)
* In-person fun team events/team buildings every 3 months
* Company equipment and onboarding kit
* Annual bonus (dependent on company and personal performance)
* Stock option plan
* Birthday off
* Generous employee referral programme