Senior QA Automation Engineer
Reporting to: QA Lead
Location: ---- (Hybrid – we're flexible)
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £90,000
About Us
Camascope is a fast-growing technology company focused on empowering the care and medication sector with technology. We are a team of talented, caring, and ambitious individuals who are committed to making a difference in care. Our ecosystem connects pharmacies, care homes, and doctors to improve the lives of many.
There has never been a better time to join Camascope. Our team is growing and our product is reaching more users and partners every day. You will join a collaborative and passionate team. We love solving real problems and are committed to building the highest-quality solutions. If you are eager to make a meaningful impact in healthcare and thrive in a fast‑paced startup environment, Camascope will be the perfect place for you.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to automation strategy and architecture – Significantly shape the automation approach for complex, cross‑cutting areas — designing frameworks, making architectural decisions, and balancing investment against risk and maintainability
- Build and maintain test automation – Create and evolve automated coverage for web, mobile (Android), and APIs, ensuring suites provide trustworthy signals for release decisions
- Solve systemic quality problems – Identify patterns behind flaky tests, slow pipelines, and brittle test data, and drive structural fixes rather than patching symptoms
- Design effective test approaches – Maintain high‑value test cases (manual and automated) informed by deep product knowledge, and drive non‑functional testing (performance, security, accessibility) where risk warrants it
- Strengthen continuous testing – Optimise CI/CD integration so automated tests provide fast, reliable feedback without becoming a bottleneck
- Shift quality left – Bring a testability perspective to requirements and design discussions, partnering with Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to catch issues earlier
- Own the defect lifecycle – Identify, document, and track issues in JIRA, support triage, and work with developers to drive root‑cause fixes
- Raise the bar across QA – Mentor QA and automation engineers, influence team standards, evaluate new tools and approaches, and foster a culture where automation is treated as production‑quality code
- Leverage AI tooling – Use AI‑assisted tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test development and explore AI‑driven approaches to test generation and defect detection
- Keep customers at the heart – Develop a deep understanding of clinical workflows and user needs to ensure coverage targets what matters most to care home patients and customers
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar
- 5+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation, including experience owning automation strategy for complex areas
- Solid manual testing experience – strong foundation in manual testing and validation
- Web and mobile application testing – strong experience testing web applications and mobile apps (Android)
- API testing experience – solid experience testing RESTful APIs and familiarity with API testing tools (e.g. Bruno, Postman, REST Assured)
- Test scripting – strong experience writing automated test scripts in languages such as Python, JavaScript, or similar
- Test automation frameworks – experience designing, evolving, and making architectural decisions about automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Appium, or similar)
- CI/CD pipeline experience – experience optimising automated test integration in CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable feedback
- Strategic test design – ability to design effective, scalable test strategies and make sound decisions about automation scope and investment
- Systemic problem-solving – ability to identify patterns of recurring reliability or maintainability issues and drive structural improvements, not just patch symptoms
- Test management tools – experience with test management tools for organising test cases, test reporting, and tracking metrics
- Strong troubleshooting skills – excellent debugging abilities for both test automation and defect investigation
- Critical thinking – ability to understand business rules and apply critical thinking to product requirements, design decisions (including UI/UX), and implementation
- Collaborative mindset – excellent communication skills with ability to articulate automation strategy and trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical audiences
- Mentoring ability – experience and enthusiasm for developing automation capability in others through pairing, code reviews, and guidance
- Git and version control – confident with Git for collaboration and source control of automation code
- Agile/Scrum methodologies – capable and comfortable working in agile environments
- Comfortable using AI‑assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot
Bonus Points For
- Performance and load testing (e.g. Locust, K6, JMeter)
- Security testing (e.g. OWASP, penetration testing)
- Accessibility and usability testing
- Cloud testing platforms (e.g. BrowserStack, LambdaTest)
- Testing serverless architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda functions)
- BDD test definition (e.g. Gherkin) and frameworks (e.g. Cucumber, SpecFlow)
- Test coverage analysis and test analytics
- Test data management strategies and tools
- Using AI to accelerate testing (e.g. generating test cases and data, drafting automation, identifying issues and coverage gaps)
- GitHub and GitHub Actions workflows for CI/CD automation
- Mobile device farms and cloud‑based mobile testing solutions
- Testing SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) including validation, performance, and data integrity testing
- Experience in a regulated domain such as Healthcare or Pharmacy tech
- Security and data handling best practices in automation codebases and test environments
Why Join Us?
- Own automation strategy and make architectural decisions that shape how the team tests and delivers
- Work on meaningful problems in the healthcare sector that directly impact patient care
- Grow your automation expertise with modern frameworks and tools
- Mentor QA and automation engineers, helping develop capability across the team
- Evaluate and introduce new tools and approaches — your recommendations will be heard
- Contribute your ideas and experience to improve quality standards
- Work with modern technologies and contribute to technical decisions
- Grow with us as we expand
Benefits
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
- Annual leave increases by 1 day for each completed year of service, up to 30 days
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days' annual leave
- Aviva pension scheme with 3% employer contribution and 5% minimum employee contribution, plus a salary sacrifice option
- Private medical insurance through Freedom, with the option to add immediate family members at employee cost
- Employee Assistance Programme through Health Assured, including 24/7 confidential wellbeing support for employees and immediate family
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme, including e-bikes
- Company sick pay of up to 2 weeks' full pay, which may be extended to 6 weeks at management discretion
- Enhanced maternity pay of 3 months' full pay for employees with 52 weeks' continuous service by the Expected Week of Childbirth, up to 52 weeks' maternity leave in total
- Full pay for up to 2 weeks' paternity leave for employees who meet statutory eligibility requirements
- Paid antenatal and adoption‑related appointments, with up to 5 appointments of up to 6.5 hours each
- Car allowance or leased company vehicle for eligible travel‑based roles, including a £400 per month car allowance as an alternative to a company vehicle
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. If you're excited about this role but don't meet 100% of the requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway.
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