Senior SDET (AI)

Location: Fully remote in the UK and EU, with occasional travel to the London office; candidates must work within +/- 2 hours of GMT.

Salary: £65,000–£75,000 package, based on experience and value.

Company

hirify.global develops secure, cloud-based clinical software that helps healthcare professionals deliver care and structure health data for research.

What you will do

• Lead the evolution toward an AI-agent quality system for identifying coverage gaps, generating and maintaining tests, detecting flaky tests, supporting exploratory testing, and surfacing reproducible defects.
• Design safe, maintainable agent workflows with isolated execution, human review, and appropriate controls.
• Build the foundations of the quality platform, including Playwright, CI integration, ephemeral test environments, test data management, quality observability, and structured test knowledge.
• Establish CI and pull-request quality gates, coverage validation, high-risk code checks, and actionable failure reporting.
• Rationalise the E2E suite and create cross-layer coverage maps and risk-based defect views.
• Contribute to quality strategy, non-functional testing, tooling decisions, metrics, shift-left adoption, and coaching for engineers and SDETs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as an SDET or Test Automation Engineer.
• Strong experience designing, building, and evolving reliable, maintainable automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with AI-augmented or agentic quality workflows, including awareness of data privacy, security, clinical safety, cost, and false-positive risks.
• Commercial experience with TypeScript-based automation frameworks and experience with Playwright.
• Experience with unit, component, API, integration, and E2E testing, testing-pyramid strategy, and coverage planning.
• Exposure to performance, accessibility, security, reliability, DevOps, and cloud tools including k6, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Datadog, and AWS.

Nice to have

• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6.
• Experience conducting proof-of-concepts for non-functional testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on healthcare software intended to improve care delivery for millions of people.
• Autonomy and ownership with shared context and company-wide impact.
• 36 days off, including holidays, bank holidays, a birthday day, and additional feel-good days.
• Private health insurance covering physical and mental health, dental, and optical care.
• Latest MacBook or Windows device and equipment for an ergonomic home office.
• Access to a Central London office with a roof terrace, refreshments, activities, and team events.