QA Automation Architect

Salary: £65,000 + Bonus

Location: Primarily Remote

Type: Permanent

The Role

We’re looking for a QA Automation Architect to lead and shape our automation capability across multiple projects and clients. You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership, guiding QA engineers, defining best practices, and building scalable automation frameworks.

This is a key role focused on driving innovation in test automation, improving quality standards, and delivering robust, modern engineering solutions across a CI/CD landscape.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of QA Automation Engineers
• Act as the escalation point for automation and QA-related matters
• Define and maintain QA best practices, standards, and documentation
• Drive continuous learning through training, certifications, and industry engagement

Automation Delivery

• Own and deliver automation strategies across projects
• Design and maintain reusable frameworks, templates, and test artefacts
• Support delivery teams with hands-on automation where required
• Promote the value of automation through business cases and client engagement

Frameworks & Engineering

• Design and build scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and non-functional testing
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines across cloud environments
• Implement solutions covering performance, accessibility, and security testing
• Develop tools or applications (web, API, or CLI) to solve engineering challenges

Innovation & R&D

• Stay current with emerging tools, trends, and best practices
• Continuously improve automation capabilities and frameworks
• Build and maintain proof-of-concept and demo environments

What We’re Looking For

Leadership Experience

• Proven experience leading QA/Automation teams
• Experience managing distributed/onshore and offshore teams
• Strong stakeholder management and project delivery skills

Technical Expertise

• Strong experience with automation in Node.js (ideally TypeScript)
• Solid background in CI/CD environments and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)
• Experience building automation frameworks across UI, API, and performance testing
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Rest Assured, JMeter, Axe, BrowserStack (or similar)
• Knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, accessibility, security)