Key skills
AndroidCypressiOSJavaJavaScriptKotlinPythonSeleniumTypeScriptPlaywrightCI/CDLeadershipMentoringCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Define and drive the QA automation strategy, improving framework quality, test coverage, and overall automation maturity
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of QA engineers, providing both technical guidance and hands-on contribution
- Design, build, and maintain scalable UI and end-to-end automation frameworks
- Improve and optimise automated test execution within CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable feedback
- Drive a risk-based testing approach, making informed decisions on test prioritisation, coverage, and trade-offs
- Shape a balanced testing strategy across UI, mobile, API/service-level, and manual testing layers
- Lead end-to-end testing efforts across mobile applications (iOS/Android) and backend services
- Evaluate where UI automation is valuable vs where API or service-level testing provides better efficiency and stability
- Manage bug tracking, triage, and failure analysis, providing clear reporting on quality metrics and risks
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to improve testability and quality standards
- Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, tooling, and ways of working
- Support expansion into non-functional testing areas such as performance, load, and (longer term) security
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in QA / Test Automation, delivering automation in production environments
- Experience in a QA leadership or mentoring role, with responsibility for guiding engineers and shaping QA direction
- Proven ability to define and evolve automation strategy, not just implement individual automated tests
- Strong foundation in manual QA, including exploratory and regression testing, with sound judgment on what should and should not be automated
- Experience designing, building, or improving UI and end-to-end automation frameworks
- Experience working with modern UI automation tools (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO or similar)
- Experience with mobile testing and/or automation (iOS/Android), ideally in business-critical environments
- Strong understanding of risk-based testing and how to optimise coverage, speed, and confidence
- Ability to lead a team (approx. 4 engineers) while remaining hands-on and technically credible
- Experience with API / service-level testing and a solid understanding of test pyramid principles
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with defect management, bug triage, and QA reporting
- Strong collaboration skills with engineering, product, and platform teams
- Familiarity with automation languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, or Kotlin (TypeScript preferred)
- Experience working in modern product engineering environments with evolving systems and priorities
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate in complex environments
Tech Stack
- Android
- Cypress
- iOS
- Java
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- Python
- Selenium
- TypeScript
Benefits
- At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire.
- Be a Smart Worker
- valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.
- Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor.