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# QA Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Key Partnership Recruitment Limited
- **Location:** Bath, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £55,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), JavaScript (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Software as a Service, Code Coverage, Systems Development Life Cycle, E2e Testing, Selenium, TypeScript, Postman, Cypress (Programming Language), Agentic-AI, Playwright, Restful APIs
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/qa-automation-engineer/57516479

## About the Role

* 3+ years' commercial experience within Software Testing / Quality Assurance
 * Strong hands-on experience in test automation using Cypress + TypeScript/JavaScript, although experience with Playwright or Selenium will also be considered.
 * Experience testing SaaS products is crucial
 * Solid Manual Testing fundamentals, including regression, exploratory, E2E testing, UAT
 * Experience with REST API Testing using Postman
 * A quality-first mind-set, with the ability to work well independently and as part of a team
 * Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and Agile development practices
 * ISTQB certification (desirable)

## Description

We're looking for a strong QA Engineer to join a close-knit team of circa 5 QA professionals that are working alongside team of 10-15 Software Engineers.

Quality is taken very seriously here. In the 30 years our client has been in business, their software has never caused a day's disruption for their customers. Their reputation for reliability is hugely important to them.

This role will focus primarily on Test Automation (60%), alongside, of course, manual and exploratory testing. You'll develop and maintain automated test suites, improve test coverage, and work closely with the wider product team throughout the full SDLC.

The business is also exploring how AI and Agentic Testing can improve its QA processes, so previous experience using AI within software testing would be a real advantage.