Senior Automation Test Engineer/Test Lead
Spencer Rose · Broadgate, Central London ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- QA
Contract Senior Automation Test Engineer/Test Lead (6–12 months, inside IR35) via Spencer Rose at a banking client in London: owns the test and automation strategy, builds functional and performance frameworks with Playwright, API and load testing integrated into CI/CD, and leads/mentors the QA team. Hybrid — two days a week onsite in the City of London.
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Extensive hands-on experience in automation testing.
- Strong experience designing and building end-to-end automation frameworks from scratch.
- Extensive hands-on knowledge of Playwright.
- Strong experience in API testing and API automation.
- Hands-on knowledge and experience in performance testing, including load, stress and scalability testing.
- Experience designing automation frameworks that support both functional and performance testing.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and integrating automated tests into deployment pipelines.
- Experience taking complete ownership of testing for a project, product or application.
- Previous experience leading, mentoring and providing technical direction to a testing team.
- Ability to define and improve test strategy, automation strategy and regression coverage.
- Good knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working within Agile delivery teams.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders and leadership.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Desirable: Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) concepts.
- Desirable: Experience testing cloud-based applications, microservices and distributed systems.
- Desirable: Knowledge of performance-testing tools and performance monitoring and analysis.
- Desirable: Experience with cloud-based CI/CD and deployment processes.
- Take end-to-end ownership of testing activities, from test planning and strategy through execution, automation and reporting.
- Define and shape the overall test strategy, automation approach and quality processes.
- Design and build end-to-end test automation frameworks from scratch for functional and performance testing.
- Develop, maintain and enhance scalable automation solutions using Playwright.
- Drive automation across UI, API and end-to-end testing.
- Design and execute performance, load, stress and scalability testing to validate system performance.
- Integrate functional and performance automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead and mentor QA/Test Engineers, providing technical guidance and developing the teams automation capability.
- Work closely with developers, Product Owners and other stakeholders to ensure quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Identify testing risks, dependencies and coverage gaps early in the delivery process.
- Drive continuous improvement in testing standards, tools, frameworks and processes.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
- API
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- GCP
- Support
- Playwright
- microservices
- UX UI Design
- E2E
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At Spencer Rose, we are seeking an experienced Senior Automation Test Engineer/Test Lead for our banking client. The role is based in Central London, with two days a week onsite in the City of London. The contract is expected to last 6–12 months, with an ASAP start, and is inside IR35. The successful candidate will help shape the clients quality and automation strategy, establishing robust functional and performance testing from a limited starting point while providing technical leadership to the wider testing team.
last updated 43 week of 2026