QA Automation Engineer

Protect the journeys that matter most: a correct basket, a successful payment and an order a restaurant can fulfil.

The job

You will help the team find meaningful problems early and release with clearer evidence. Your work combines automated checks, exploratory testing and risk-based thinking across customer storefronts and partner tools. You will collaborate closely with engineers to make tests reliable and diagnose failures quickly, while ensuring that a passing test suite reflects realistic user behaviour. The role values judgement about what to test as much as the ability to automate it.

What you would be doing

• Create browser and API tests for ordering, payment status and restaurant operations.
• Design reusable test data that keeps restaurant accounts and scenarios isolated.
• Investigate flaky tests and improve the speed and clarity of test feedback.
• Explore edge cases involving modifiers, discounts, time slots and interrupted requests.
• Assess accessibility and mobile usability as part of feature acceptance.
• Document reproducible defects with evidence, impact and clear expected behaviour.
• Help product teams define acceptance criteria and identify appropriate release checks.

What we are looking for

• Experience writing maintainable automated tests for web applications.
• Confidence in TypeScript, JavaScript or another test-automation language.
• Understanding of HTTP, APIs, browser behaviour and relational test data.
• Ability to prioritise tests around user impact and likely failure modes.
• Clear defect reporting and constructive collaboration with engineers and product colleagues.

Useful, but not essential

• Experience with Playwright and API contract testing.
• Familiarity with payment-provider sandboxes or commerce workflows.
• Experience introducing accessibility checks or improving test-suite reliability.

Tools you might use

• Playwright
• TypeScript
• API testing tools
• SQL
• CI pipelines
• Browser developer tools

Your first 90 days

• Days 1–30Map critical journeys and reproduce the current test setup with reliable local test data.
• Days 31–60Automate a high-value journey and remove at least one recurring source of flaky feedback.
• Days 61–90Present a risk-based coverage plan and demonstrate a useful release-verification workflow.

The practical bits

• 3 days per week in the Derby office and 2 days working remotely within the UK.
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday–Friday. Core collaboration hours are agreed with the team.
• Occasional planned team or customer visits; approved expenses are reimbursed.

What we offer

• 30 days of annual leave plus public holidays
• A company pension contribution
• A £1,000 annual learning budget for courses, conferences or professional development
• A company laptop and role-appropriate equipment; engineering roles include a development setup
• Flexible start and finish times, agreed with your team around customer and collaboration needs
• Wellbeing support and regular development conversations with your manager
• Reimbursement of approved business travel and customer-visit expenses