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Test Automation Leader
Location
London / Leeds
Alternative: Edinburgh
Work Mode
Hybrid — 40% onsite
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Test Automation Leader to drive the adoption, rollout and standardisation of modern functional test automation across multiple delivery teams.
The role will focus on automation strategy, tooling evaluation, POCs, reusable frameworks, CI/CD integration and team adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and scale functional test automation strategies across complex delivery environments.
- Evaluate and onboard modern test automation and AI-assisted testing tools.
- Plan and execute POCs, defining success criteria and measuring outcomes.
- Build and promote reusable automation frameworks, templates and starter kits.
- Establish automation standards, best practices and lightweight guardrails.
- Support delivery teams with early adoption and implementation of automation tooling.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Coordinate with QE CoE, product teams, delivery teams, vendors and platform teams.
- Capture POC/implementation learnings and create reusable guidance and reference implementations.
- Drive improvements in productivity, test coverage, quality insights and delivery risk.
- Provide thought leadership around AI, GenAI, AGI and MCP in Test Automation and Quality Engineering.
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Essential Skills
Strong hands-on experience with at least one:
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
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Plus experience with:
- Functional/UI test automation
- API automation
- BDD / Cucumber / Gherkin
- Automation framework design
- CI/CD
- Test automation strategy
- Enterprise-scale automation
- Tool evaluation / POCs
- Reusable automation frameworks and templates
Desirable
- AI-assisted test automation
- Generative AI / GenAI
- AI-based test generation
- AGI / MCP
- Experience evaluating emerging automation tools
- Experience working with Jira-integrated testing tools
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