Senior QA Engineer (Playwright)

TL;DR

Senior QA Engineer (Playwright): Building a testing function from the ground up for an intelligence business with an accent on automation strategy and quality culture. Focus on developing an end-to-end test suite, implementing contract testing, and optimizing CI pipelines for distributed systems.

Location: Remote (UK). Applicants must be SC Clearable.

Salary: £50,000 - £70,000

Company

A fast-growing intelligence business backed by Series A funding, helping large organisations manage business intelligence and compliance.

What you will do

• Own and define the overall testing strategy across multiple products.
• Build a comprehensive end-to-end test suite in Playwright covering critical user journeys and regression scenarios.
• Introduce contract testing using Pact or similar between APIs, microservices, and event-driven components.
• Build realistic integration environments using Docker, LocalStack, and seeded MongoDB datasets.
• Test complex asynchronous workflows, including batch processing, retries, and idempotency.
• Collaborate with engineers to increase test coverage across the entire development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Must be SC clearable.
• 4+ years of experience in test automation, QA engineering, or an SDET role.
• Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Deep experience with Playwright (or Cypress with a willingness to transition).
• Experience testing distributed or event-driven systems and designing integration strategies.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, ideally using GitHub Actions.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker, MongoDB, Vitest, or Jest.
• Knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC.
• Professional background in compliance, KYC/AML, or fintech.

Culture & Benefits

• High-trust engineering environment with genuine ownership and minimal bureaucracy.
• Opportunity to become the technical lead for quality as the team scales.
• Fully remote work across the UK.
• Quarterly in-person team meet-ups.