CareerPlan

Staff QA Automation Engineer

United KingdomRemoteFull-time£104k2026-08-27 → 2026-11-12
Remote

Core

Designing and scaling test automation frameworks, CI/CD standards, and AI-driven quality pipelines for a microservice-based energy transaction platform.

Role type

Staff QA Automation Engineer (Specialist IC)

Builds

Automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, canary release validation tools, and AI-powered test generation/healing systems.

Domain

Energy market infrastructure / AI-driven transaction systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Test automation framework architecture, microservice/distributed systems testing, CI/CD integration, AI/LLM application in testing, contract testing, AWS infrastructure, pytest, Playwright, Selenium, API testing

Preferred skills

Progressive deployment (canary/feature flags), mutation testing, test-data management, regulated domain experience

Technologies

pytest, Playwright, Selenium, Pact, OpenAPI, AWS (Lambda, GitHub Actions), LLMs

Responsibilities

Design risk-aware CI testing standards, maintain observability layers for test pipelines, define automated pass/fail analysis for canary releases, lead AI integration in the quality pipeline

Seniority

Staff, Specialist IC