GBV Ltd
Automation Test Analyst
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🚀 Senior Automation Engineer | Playwright | TypeScript | AI-Driven Testing | £400-440pd | Outside IR35
📍 Remote First (Occasional visits to the Cheshire office)
💰 £400-440 per day
📄 3-Month Initial Contract
🕒 Outside IR35
Lead the evolution of modern test automation within a forward-thinking software business that's investing heavily in engineering excellence and AI-powered development.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Automation Engineer who enjoys shaping quality practices, mentoring others, and driving automation strategy—not just writing automated tests. This is an opportunity to influence how an engineering organization approaches testing, embedding modern automation practices while championing the use of AI to improve software quality and delivery.
The Opportunity
You'll act as the technical lead for automation engineering, helping define best practices, improving automation frameworks, and working closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure quality is built into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
This role combines hands-on technical delivery with technical leadership and mentoring, making it ideal for someone who enjoys improving engineering capability across a wider team.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading and evolving the organization's automation testing strategy.
- Developing and maintaining automated test frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.
- Championing AI-assisted testing practices and identifying opportunities to improve engineering productivity through AI tools and agentic workflows.
- Driving a shift-left testing approach, ensuring quality is considered from requirements through to production.
- Designing and executing automated UI, API, and end-to-end test suites.
- Supporting performance, security, accessibility, and compatibility testing.
- Integrating automated testing into modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Working closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and QA colleagues to improve quality across the platform.
- Mentoring and coaching other engineers while helping establish consistent automation standards.
- Producing meaningful quality metrics and recommending continuous improvements to testing processes.
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Essential Experience
- Strong commercial experience with Playwright.
- Excellent TypeScript development skills.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks.
- API testing experience (REST APIs/Postman or similar).
- Strong SQL skills for data validation.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Agile software delivery practices.
- Experience mentoring or leading other Automation Engineers.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills.
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Nice to Have
- Performance testing experience (JMeter, Artillery, or similar).
- Security testing knowledge (OWASP Top 10, Burp Suite, or equivalent).
- Experience with accessibility testing.
- Knowledge of database schema migrations.
- Experience working with AI-assisted development or testing tools.
- Exposure to cloud-native applications and modern engineering environments.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who enjoys raising engineering standards, leading by example, and helping others succeed. You'll be comfortable challenging existing approaches, introducing new ideas, and influencing engineers across multiple teams.
You'll combine excellent technical capability with a collaborative, pragmatic approach and have a genuine passion for automation, quality engineering, and emerging AI technologies.
If you're an experienced Automation Engineer looking for a contract where you can make a genuine impact, mentor others, and shape the future of automation engineering, we'd love to hear from you.
Potential for Remote Only but have to be willing to attend the office if required.
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