Summary: The role of QA Test Automation Engineer involves designing and implementing an automated testing platform for a major sustainability company. The position requires expertise in Playwright and TypeScript, focusing on both UI and API testing while supporting BDD practices. This is a 3-month contract position that is outside IR35, aimed at enhancing the company's testing capabilities. The engineer will also provide documentation and onboarding materials for future use.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement a robust automated testing platform for UI and API layers.
- Utilize Playwright and TypeScript to support Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices.
- Set up a TypeScript-based project structure optimized for Playwright.
- Configure build tools, package management, and environment configuration layers.
- Integrate Playwright test runner with custom configurations for parallel execution and reporting.
- Provide clear documentation and onboarding materials for developers.
- Support parallel test execution, environment configurations, and test grouping via tagging.
- Implement test and coverage reporting for both UI and API test suites.
- Manage database connections and CRUD utilities.
- Conduct non-functional testing and mobile application testing as needed.
Key Skills:
- Experience with Playwright and TypeScript.
- Knowledge of BDD (Gherkin) configuration and experience with Cucumber or similar tooling.
- Understanding of Page Object Model with separate locator structures.
- Experience with generic API client implementation.
- Proficiency in database connection and CRUD utilities.
- Ability to conduct test and coverage reporting for UI and API test suites.
- Experience with non-functional testing and mobile applications is highly desirable.
- Strong documentation and onboarding skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
QA Test Automation Engineer Remote Working (Must be UK-based) 3 -month contract (Outside IR35) Market Rates
Skills and Experience:
- Must have experience with Playwright and Typescript these are absolutely essential
- BDD (Gherkin) configuration and experience with Cucumber or similar tooling
- Page Object Model with separate locator structures
- Generic API client implementation
- Database connection and CRUD utilities
- Test and coverage reporting for both UI and API test suites and test data manipulation
- Experience with Non-functional testing and mobile applications would be highly desirable
- Set up a TypeScript-based project structure optimized for Playwright
- Configure build tools, package management and environment configuration layers
- Integrate Playwright test runner with custom configurations to support parallel execution, retries and reporting
- Support parallel test execution, environment configurations and test grouping via tagging
- Provide clear, developer-friendly documentation and onboarding materials
The Opportunity:
My client is a major sustainability company that are looking for a QA Automation Specialist on a 3-month contract basis for a specific project within their business. My client requires this individual to design and implement a robust automated testing platform capable of validating both the UI and API layers of a web application. The solution will be built using Playwright and TypeScript and must support Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices using Gherkin syntax. This framework will serve as a scalable, maintainable foundation for ongoing functional, regression, and integration testing performed by both developers and QA analysts and via future CI/CD solutions.
Applications: Please call John here at ISR on 07719 919 860 to talk more about this brand-new opportunity consulting for a genuine leader in their market as a Test Automation Engineer?
