Test Automation Specialist

Test Automation Engineer

📍 Near Chester | Hybrid (1 day per week to 1 day per month in the office)

💰 £40,000 - £45,000 + Excellent Benefits

🏢 Permanent

Help build the future of AI-enabled Quality Engineering.

We're exclusively supporting an innovative software business as they continue to invest in their engineering capability and modern software delivery practices.

We're looking for a Test Automation Engineer who is passionate about quality, automation and continuous improvement, whilst embracing AI as part of modern software testing.

This is far more than writing automated tests.

You'll help define automation strategy, improve engineering quality and introduce AI-assisted testing techniques that increase efficiency whilst maintaining exceptional quality standards.

The Opportunity

You'll work closely with Developers, Product teams and QA colleagues to build scalable automation frameworks that become an integral part of the software delivery lifecycle.

You'll play a key role in embedding quality throughout Agile delivery whilst exploring how AI can enhance testing, automation and defect detection.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks
• Building automated functional, regression and API test suites
• Developing performance and non-functional testing capability
• Integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines
• Investigating automation failures and improving framework stability
• Working closely with developers throughout Agile delivery
• Improving automation coverage across multiple products
• Promoting quality-first engineering practices
• Exploring AI-assisted testing techniques and modern quality engineering

Essential Skills & Experience

We're looking for experience across most of the following:

• Test Automation
• Playwright
• Selenium
• Cypress
• Postman
• API Testing
• Regression Testing
• Performance Testing
• Azure DevOps
• Git
• CI/CD
• Agile delivery
• Automation framework design

AI Experience is Essential

We're specifically looking for engineers who already utilise AI within software testing.

This could include:

• AI-assisted test generation
• AI-powered defect analysis
• Reviewing and validating AI-generated tests
• Prompt engineering
• Using tools such as Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot
• Experience driving browsers using Playwright MCP or similar AI-assisted workflows
• Understanding responsible AI adoption, governance and validation

We're looking for someone who understands that AI enhances testing—it doesn't replace engineering judgement.

You'll thrive here if you...

• Take ownership of software quality
• Love automation and continuous improvement
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Enjoy working closely with Developers
• Stay curious about emerging technology
• Want to influence modern quality engineering practices

What's on offer?

• £40,000-£45,000
• Hybrid working (typically between 1 day per week and 1 day per month onsite)
• Modern automation tooling
• Opportunity to work with AI-enabled testing
• Collaborative Agile engineering teams
• Genuine career progression
• Excellent benefits package

If you're passionate about automation, modern engineering practices and using AI to improve software quality, we'd love to hear from you.