Description:
R13 Recruitment are partnering with an innovative and growing technology business in their search for a QA Automation Engineer to join their highly collaborative engineering team.
This is an exciting opportunity for a quality-focused testing professional to take ownership of the QA function, driving automation strategy whilst maintaining a strong focus on exploratory and risk-based manual testing. Working closely with senior technical stakeholders, you will play a key role in ensuring software quality, shaping testing processes and helping the business leverage emerging AI technologies to support an evolving development environment.
Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:30pm working one day week from Norwich-based offices and four from home. Salary is offered at £40,000 - £48,000 DOE.
The Company
This established software business delivers specialist technology solutions to a professional client base across a highly regulated sector. With continued growth, significant investment in technology, and a strong engineering culture, they are focused on building scalable, high-quality products whilst embracing innovation and emerging technologies.
The successful candidate will join a forward-thinking team where quality is viewed as a shared responsibility and where there is genuine opportunity to influence processes, tooling and technical direction.5
Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement
- 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
- Bank holidays
- Free onsite parking
- Health cash plan
- Pension scheme
- Ongoing professional development opportunities
- Exposure to emerging AI technologies and modern engineering practices
- Direct collaboration with senior leadership and technical decision makers
The Day to Day
- Owning and developing the organisation's automated testing strategy.
- Designing, building and maintaining automated test coverage across regression, integration and end-to-end testing layers.
- Creating and maintaining automated monitoring solutions to identify issues before they impact customers.
- Carrying out exploratory and risk-based manual testing across software products.
- Developing and executing comprehensive test plans for new features and releases.
- Leading release quality sign-off activities and assessing associated risks.
- Working closely with developers to identify edge cases and potential failure points early in the development lifecycle.
- Researching, implementing and optimising AI-powered quality assurance tools and processes.
- Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across testing methodologies and QA practices.
- Supporting the development of quality standards, governance processes and testing frameworks.
- Monitoring quality metrics and identifying opportunities to improve automation coverage and efficiency.
- Collaborating across technical teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
You Will Have / Be
- Proven experience building and maintaining automated testing frameworks.
- Strong experience with Playwright or similar automation technologies.
- Solid manual and exploratory testing experience.
- Previous experience working within Agile software development environments.
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, quality assurance principles and best practice.
- Experience working closely with software development teams.
- Knowledge of programming languages such as C#, JavaScript or Python.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to quality improvement.
- Ability to balance automation, manual testing and risk-based decision making.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A genuine interest in emerging technologies and the role AI can play within software quality.
- Experience with API, contract or integration testing (desirable).
- Exposure to CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions (desirable).
- Experience using AI-assisted testing or quality assurance tools (desirable).
- Experience within regulated or professional services environments (desirable).
- Knowledge of performance or security testing (desirable).
- ISTQB or equivalent testing certification (desirable).
How to Apply
To hear more details about this fantastic opportunity, please email your CV to Rebecca Headden – Business Partner at R13 Recruitment. If you do not hear from us within 5 working days upon initial submission of your CV, please assume you have been unsuccessful.
For candidates applying from outside the local region, please include a brief covering note outlining your relocation plans, current location, and anticipated timeframe for moving. Applications without this information may not be considered further.
