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Senior QA Automation Engineer
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We are working with a fast-growing sports technology business that operates complex, real-time platforms handling large volumes of live data and significant traffic during major sporting events. This company is looking for their first dedicated QA Automation Engineer to help establish how quality assurance works across the development team, offering a unique opportunity to take real ownership rather than simply inherit an established testing process.
The Role
- Hands-on position combining automation, API, functional, and performance testing.
- Autonomy to identify gaps, recommend tooling, and build practical testing processes from the ground up.
- Expected to understand systems, identify risks, and determine testing approaches for React/Next.js web applications, REST APIs, real-time data feeds, WebSockets, embedded widgets, and high-traffic applications.
- Key focus on improving confidence around releases and ensuring application scalability during significant production traffic.
- Building automated regression, smoke, and API tests, and introducing load, capacity, and performance testing.
- Defining test plans, investigating issues, and working closely with developers to resolve defects.
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What You'll Need
- Strong commercial QA experience with good hands-on automation skills.
- Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar automation tools.
- Proficiency in API testing and automation using tools like Postman or Insomnia.
- Experience with modern web application testing, REST APIs, and backend systems.
- Ability to create test plans and test cases, and work closely with software development teams.
- Experience with load/performance testing, real-time data, WebSockets, event-driven systems, or high-traffic applications is highly valued.
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What's On Offer
- Genuine ownership of automation and QA processes as the first dedicated QA hire.
- Freedom to influence tooling and testing strategy.
- Opportunity to work on technically challenging real-time and high-traffic systems.
- Be part of a growing business investing heavily in its technology function.
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