QA Automation Engineer (Remote, Full-Time) [HR189] (PK)

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About the Role

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will take ownership of quality across a mature, multi-repository digital health platform, building and maintaining a robust automation framework while improving test coverage and overall platform reliability.

 Working closely with a small engineering team, you'll collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, define and document expected system behaviour, and translate those into effective automated tests.

This is a highly hands-on, autonomous role where you'll play a key part in enhancing software quality, enabling faster and more reliable releases, and ensuring the platform delivers a seamless experience for clients, end users, and internal teams. 

• Take end-to-end ownership of the quality assurance process, designing and developing the automated testing framework.
• Understand how a large, multi-repo system works and how it should work from client, end-user and internal operations perspectives.
• Ask the right questions and document expected behaviour where inherited documentation is partly out of date.
• Author English-readable scenarios in Cucumber and Gherkin.
• Build automation in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Drive the UI through a page object model.
• Add data-test-ids to React code where missing.
• Validate correct database state using SQL.
• Maintain the automated tests as new features arrive.
• Feed into requirements upfront as new features are planned.
• Flag compliance, regulatory and security implications.
• Run exploratory testing to identify where the product behaves incorrectly.
• Improve reliability and enable faster, safer releases through automation.
• Reproduce multi-step defects precisely and identify edge cases.
• Build a repeatable, documented QA process from an unreliable baseline.
• Work out how the system should behave across multiple user perspectives and how it might break.