Staff QA Automation Engineer

The role

You will design frameworks and practices to help engineering teams own quality through automation. You will work on microservice architecture, CI testing standards, and AI-driven quality pipelines.

What you will do

• Design frameworks and practices for engineering teams to test themselves.
• Lead and develop scripts to equip engineering teams with automation and standards.
• Own the quality engineering approach as the organisation scales.
• Develop a risk-aware CI testing standard using a dependency model.
• Establish unit, integration, and contract testing standards with an observability layer.
• Define automated pass/fail analysis for canary releases.
• Implement AI in the quality pipeline including LLM-based change-risk classification and test generation.

Required qualifications

• Expertise in test automation frameworks including pytest, Playwright, Selenium, and API testing or similar.
• Experience architecting and maintaining test automation frameworks and tooling used across a wider engineering organisation.
• Deep knowledge of testing across microservice or distributed systems, including API-level automation, CI/CD integration, and service-level testing strategies.
• Experience leading innovation and PoCs in testing, particularly AI-led regression optimisation and change-risk analysis.
• Strong collaboration and delivery focus across multi-project environments and distributed teams.
• Contract testing or consumer/provider verification (Pact, OpenAPI schema validation, or similar).
• AWS infrastructure experience (Lambda, GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, deployment tooling).

Nice to have

• Progressive deployment experience: canary releases, feature flags, automated rollback from production signals.
• Mutation testing, whether traditional tooling or LLM-based.
• Test-data management and environment-isolation strategy in shared environments.
• Experience in a regulated or high-stakes domain (energy, fintech, payments).

Benefits

• Pay moves when the evidence for it does.
• Stock options.
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays.
• Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you.
• Birthday off.
• Home working and wellbeing budgets.

Before you apply

• Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer.
• Interview process includes an intro call, behavioural interview, skills interview with a practical exercise, and a Bar Raiser interview.

About the company

tem is a technology company rebuilding the energy transaction to be transparent and fair. They power energy for over 4,000 UK businesses across 8,500+ sites.