Staff QA Automation Engineer

Overview

In this Staff QA Automation Engineer role you will shape and own the test automation strategy within a global security solutions company. You will build scalable automation frameworks, drive continuous testing in CI/CD, and coordinate with product and engineering teams to ensure end-to-end quality across software and hardware interfaces. Your work spans systems thinking, exploratory testing, and hardware-integration testing to deliver robust, testable products. You’ll influence technical direction and uplift engineering capability while solving complex test challenges at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Competitive benefits
• Annual leave
• Vibrant, inclusive culture
• Extensive career development opportunities
• Global organization with mobility options

Responsibilities

• Create, own and enhance scalable automated test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
• Design and manage automated test suites and supporting infrastructure for continuous testing
• Monitor, triage and resolve pipeline test failures and update tests for new features
• Plan and execute system-level, end-to-end, and exploratory testing (manual + automated)
• Design physical test setups and coordinate hardware/software interactions and specialist support
• Raise defects, prioritise by severity and communicate results to stakeholders
• Provide technical guidance, pair programming, reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Identify future test capabilities and infrastructure needs with evidence-based rationale

Key requirements

• Seven+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience designing and conducting software, device, systems-integration and end-to-end testing
• Proficiency creating maintainable automated test solutions with scripting or programming languages
• Experience on Windows and Linux, hardware configuration and network connections
• SQL and/or NoSQL data validation experience
• Familiarity with Jira and Agile/Lean methodologies
• Experience testing Java or React.js applications and using CI/CD tools
• Hands-on with Playwright, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory/Nexus, and test frameworks like Selenium, Cucumber

• collaboration
• problem solving
• clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Playwright
• Jenkins
• Selenium

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