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QA Engineer - Automation

ExperisUnited Kingdom🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 4 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This fully remote QA Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape automation strategies and contribute to confident releases within a reputable company, perfect for mid-senior engineers passionate about building robust testing frameworks and mentoring others. You'll thrive by leveraging your Java and Python skills to enhance CI/CD pipelines and drive quality improvements.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Remote
Location
United Kingdom
AgileJavaPython

Job Description

QA Engineer - Automation (API Testing)
Location: London (100% Remote)

Our Client is hiring for a reputed client. If you enjoy building reliable automation, tightening quality feedback loops and helping teams ship with confidence, this is a great opportunity to make quality part of everyday engineering.

What you'll be doing:
Design and evolve an automation approach across your product area (API, UI, contract, component and more)
Build, develop and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts
Integrate automation deeply into CI/CD pipelines, optimising parallel runs for deterministic, stable outputs
Investigate flaky tests, identify root causes, and drive reliability standards
Troubleshoot complex automation failures and recommend corrective actions
Provide meaningful reporting that highlights real risks, not just raw numbers
Review automation code and mentor junior/mid-level automation engineers
Create reusable components, utilities and libraries to improve efficiency and maintainability
Work with developers, product managers and DevOps engineers to ensure fast, stable, trustworthy releases
Support compliance and security alignment relevant to healthcare data systems (where applicable)

What you'll bring:
Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks
Strong expertise in API testing and automation (automation desirable, or you can learn and support the team)
Solid programming skills in Java and Python
Hands-on CI/CD experience integrating automated tests into pipelines
Experience with SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies
The ability to lead continuous improvement-making frameworks cleaner, faster, and easier for others to build on
Confidence reviewing automation code, spotting issues early, and promoting good test coding habits

Additional information:
Outside IR35
3 months initially, with potential extensions if demand continues
Pay for your own BPSS
You can use your own laptop (any make/model)

If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we'd love to hear from you-apply today to be considered for this remote QA Engineer - Automation (API Testing) role.

If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.

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