Senior Automation Tester

Location: York Place

Senior Automation Tester

Edinburgh/Hybrid

Salary up to £55,000

We are looking for a Senior Automation Tester who shares our passion for quality and for using technology to help businesses perform better.

The Role

As a Senior Automation Tester, you will play a key role in driving quality across engineering teams. You’ll divide your time between hands-on delivery work and collaborating with senior engineering leaders on cross-team quality initiatives, tools, and processes.

You’ll be involved throughout the full product development lifecycle, helping to deliver innovative solutions that are changing how people interact.

What You’ll Be Doing

Analyse test objectives and design test plans aligned with the overall test strategy

Design and build test cases, scripts, and procedures with clear expected results

Create and manage realistic, representative test data

Execute a wide range of functional and non-functional testing activities

Support testing at all levels, including unit, component, integration, system, and UAT

Raise, manage, and track defects through to resolution in line with organisational standards

Document and report test results against acceptance criteria, maintaining traceability between stories, tests, and defects

Communicate testing status, risks, metrics, and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Continuously develop your skills and stay up to date with new tools, technologies, and best practices

Skills & Experience

Strong understanding of iterative and incremental development methodologies

Experience defining and maintaining regression strategies, including identifying tests suitable for automation

Demonstrable experience testing desktop and service-based applications

Experience working with event-driven systems and service bus technologies

Strong coding or scripting skills (ideally C# or Type Script; Java, JavaScript, or Python also considered)

Hands-on experience with tools such as Jest, Playwright, Cypress, K6, or similar

Experience using test management tools such as Azure Dev Ops

If you’re a quality-focused Senior Automation Tester looking to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry