Planet Pharma
Automation QA Tester
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Role Details - Automation QA Tester
12 month contract
Hybrid, 2-3 days in office
About the Opportunity
A leading pharma company are looking for an Automation QA Tester to join their clinical trials platform team.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll work directly with developers, contributing to a product used by patients, sites, and study teams around the world. You’ll take ownership of automation across web and mobile, help build a robust end-to-end regression suite, and ensure the platform remains stable and reliable as it evolves.
Alongside automation, you’ll stay involved in manual testing during release cycles and exploratory phases, playing a key part in maintaining quality across a regulated, patient-impacting environment. You’ll be embedded in a collaborative product team where accuracy, reliability, and clinical-grade standards genuinely matter.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing, writing, and maintaining automated test scripts using WebdriverIO (JavaScript) across both web and mobile applications.
- Building and running both web and mobile automation across a mix of cloud-based cross-browser/cross-device testing (BrowserStack) and physical devices set up for manual device automation.
- Developing and maintaining an end-to-end regression suite that provides reliable coverage of core product workflows.
- Working with the test lead to decide which areas should be automated and which should remain manual, based on risk, stability, and repeat-test value.
- Feeding automated test results and supporting evidence into Jira/Xray to maintain clear, structured test management and reporting.
- Refactoring test scripts and improving locator strategies to keep automation suites stable and maintainable as the product evolves.
- Supporting manual testing across web and mobile during release cycles, exploratory testing, and areas not yet suited to automation.
- Testing across multiple environments, including a dedicated automation environment used for consistent regression runs.
- Working closely with developers and testers both local and overseas as part of a collaborative, product-focused team.
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Required Skills & Experience
- Bringing strong hands-on experience with WebdriverIO or a similar JavaScript-based automation framework, with confidence testing both web and mobile applications.
- Working comfortably with BrowserStack and physical devices, and being equally capable of picking up manual test scripts when needed.
- Bringing proven experience testing clinical, healthcare, medical device, or other regulated systems.
- Understanding compliance expectations, validation requirements, audit trails, data integrity, and the realities of testing software used by patients, sites, or clinical staff.
- Working with clinical workflows, patient journeys, or trial-related digital systems, with a clear understanding of what “quality” means in a regulated context.
- Having experience with Appium or other mobile automation tooling.
- Being familiar with Node.js for scripting or utilities.
- Having exposure to CI/CD pipelines and running automation within them.
- Understanding automation strategy - knowing what to automate, what to leave manual, and how to keep suites maintainable over time.
- Using Jira/Xray for structured test management, reporting, and traceability.
- Debugging effectively, distinguishing genuine defects from flaky tests or environment-related issues.
- Contributing positively within a collaborative, team-first environment.
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Why This Role
You’ll be embedded directly with developers, shaping an automation function that’s actively growing. Your work directly supports patients participating in clinical trials - meaning the quality of this platform genuinely matters.
You’ll have influence over automation strategy, tooling, and coverage, with the chance to build something robust rather than inherit legacy debt.
Planet Pharma
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