QA Automation Engineer - Playwright / Cypress (Contract)

• Build and maintain automated test suites with Playwright and Cypress.
• Wire tests into CI so quality is checked on every change.
• Work with engineers to build testing in from the start, not bolt it on at the end.
• Help set the quality bar across the programme.

• Strong hands-on Playwright and Cypress.
• Solid JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience running automated tests inside CI pipelines.
• A sharp eye for where things break.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools to speed up test authoring and widen coverage.

Bonus points for accessibility testing and regulated-environment experience.

We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector. We're a certified B Corp. We're also serious about AI-assisted engineering. We've built our own agentic tooling and cut time-to-merge by around 60% on recent work, and our people get to use that on real projects.