Saafehouse

Your responsibilities

• Implement internal QA workflows that work alongside our engineering partner, then gradually build a reliable automated testing pipeline.
• Define a practical automation strategy, select the right E2E framework and establish maintainable standards.
• Prioritise and automate critical user journeys while retaining exploratory and manual testing where it adds value.
• Integrate reliable automated testing into CI/CD to improve release confidence and feedback speed.
• Own the approach to test environments, test data, failure diagnosis and automation stability.
• Partner with developers, QA, the Product Owner and Head of Engineering to improve quality across the delivery lifecycle.
• Remain hands-on while mentoring junior QA engineers, sharing knowledge and distributing work effectively.

Your skills and experience

• Strong experience testing production web applications and building maintainable automation suites.
• Strong practical experience with a modern E2E testing framework such as Playwright or Cypress.
• Good understanding of test strategy, the test pyramid and the roles of unit, API, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD, including fast smoke checks and broader regression coverage.
• Experience managing test data, environment dependencies and independent test execution.
• A systematic approach to diagnosing flaky tests, asynchronous behaviour, dynamic UI elements and backend or environment failures.
• The judgement to prioritise business-critical flows and stable coverage before over-engineering the framework.
• Strong exploratory-testing skills and the ability to turn product risks and manual knowledge into clear, reusable test cases.
• Clear communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate with developers, QA, product colleagues and external partners.
• Experience mentoring junior team members and helping them contribute independently.
• Our platform is built on modern web technologies, relational databases and AWS cloud services, with Git and GitHub for day-to-day development. You do not need experience with every tool; strong experience with a comparable modern stack and the ability to learn an existing system quickly matter more.
• Clear written and spoken English, with the ability to work directly with UK leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech or another regulated environment.
• Experience with API testing and data validation.
• Experience testing multi-tenant products.
• Experience in a vendor-to-in-house transition or working alongside an outsourced engineering partner.