QA Automation Engineer

• Challenge: We are currently implementing a shift-left quality strategy and this is a key hire in terms of bringing other teams along on that journey
• Impact: You'll be driving a quality transformation in Engineering and collaborating with other teams to deliver, The QA Automation Engineer, day to day, will be working closely with the other Engineers in the squad ensuring the product is evolving to meet the overall roadmap and strategy, as well as working closely with the QA Chapter to build out our automation test frameworks and best practices.

You will help evangelise test automation within the squads, be hands on with test automation initiatives and play a crucial role in supporting our agile software development lifecycle. You'll also be championing our shift-left strategy within the team.

Collaborating with the QA Chapter, you will design and create a suite of automation scripts, document test cases, conducting functional and non-functional testing across both performance and scalability that comes with supporting millions of users and is growing globally.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for championing automated testing
• Define and run exploratory and automated test cases
• Hands-on collaboration with the squad Engineers to refine, design and deliver new Product features
• Identify new areas of automation testing to improve quality
• Proactively improve processes with a shift-left on quality mindset and approach
• Manage quality gates releases in the squad
• Contribute to the wider QA strategy, architecture, and tooling across all products to ensure consistency

Do you have experience in TypeScript?, * Passionate about your craft, and excited to learn and adopt new technology

• Use of tools and frameworks - Cypress or Selenium, Playwright, Junit, Postman, Saucelabs
• Thrive working as part of a close-knit team, making decisions together to deliver the most valuable experience to our customers
• Experience working within a fast-paced agile environment
• Experience with shift-left strategy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Enjoy working with remote colleagues
• Good understanding of testing and the testing pyramid framework
• Understanding of manual and automation testing
• Knowledge of programming languages ideally Java, Golang, JavaScript
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and other agile tooling

Bonus points for:

• Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure
• Load Testing with JMeter / Gatling
• Kubernetes / Docker
• MongoDB
• TypeScript
• SwiftUI
• React Native
• Open-source collaboration

Pulled from the full job description

• Referral programme
• Employee discount
• Employee assistance programme, * Mission: A key pillar of our global growth plan is automation and this role is a key part of delivering that pillar moving forward
• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position

Great benefits:

£40,000-50,000

Flexible work - choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

Your birthday off

️ Two half day wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare

Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

️ Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days

️ Buy and Sell scheme for holidays

£50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex's mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that's where you come in.