Senior QA Automation Engineer
Pepperstone2 months ago
Limassol, CyprusSenior
Responsibilities
- Own automation architecture and evolution for assigned epics across web and mobile trading products.
- Design, implement, and maintain Playwright web suites and Maestro mobile flows with reusable fixtures, parallel execution, and low flake.
- Integrate automated testing into pull-request and trunk workflows using GitHub Actions.
- Define test scope, environments, test data, device and browser matrices, and integration points for authentication, pricing, and orders.
- Partner with engineering, Product, and Design teams on testability, automation-friendly acceptance criteria, test IDs, hooks, and build flavours.
- Coordinate automation boundaries and sign-off scope with Senior Manual QA and Lead QA.
- Provide targeted manual testing on critical paths when automation cannot cover sprint risk in time.
- Monitor and communicate pass/fail results, automation coverage, known gaps, flake rate, and residual risk for sprint and release decisions.
- Triage, fix, or quarantine flaky tests and drive tooling improvements after releases and retrospectives.
- Support other QA engineers through templates, reviews, and practical guardrails.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software testing or quality engineering, with significant depth in test automation.
- Experience with Playwright, Maestro, or equivalent modern automation stacks.
- Proven experience testing mobile clients on iOS and Android and web trading user interfaces across device, operating-system, and browser matrices.
- Experience with maintainable test code, flake triage, CI integration, reusable fixtures, test data, and environment management.
- Ability to own epic-level automation planning in a two-week Scrum cycle and clearly report quality and residual risk.
- Experience partnering with Product and Design on testable acceptance criteria and with manual QA on scope boundaries.
- English proficiency sufficient for documentation, stand-ups, and escalation.
- Experience in trading, CFD-style applications, regulated fintech, or remote/distributed squads is advantageous.
- Willingness to adopt squad tools and improve automation and testing processes through retrospectives.
Benefits
- Fixed-term, full-time maternity-cover contract for approximately five months, or 22 weeks.
- Hybrid working in Limassol, Cyprus, with the option to work remotely from anywhere for up to four weeks per year.
- Competitive salary structure with a company bonus scheme.
- Ten days of company-paid sick leave annually and 21 days of paid vacation in the first year, increasing to 25 days after one year.
- Three paid volunteering days annually and a Workplace Giving Program.
- Comprehensive medical insurance, pension fund, employee referral bonuses, and an Employee Assistance Program with wellbeing initiatives.
- Ongoing personal development and learning opportunities, recognition and reward programs, and company events.
- Office located near the Limassol Municipal Garden.
Tech Stack
AppiumDatadogGitHub ActionsiOSReact Native
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