Senior QE Automation Engineer

A hands-on quality engineering role embedded in a multidisciplinary Scrum team delivering production-ready features for a government digital modernisation program. The engineer owns quality across the delivery lifecycle: reviewing requirements and acceptance criteria for testability, designing and executing risk-based functional, integration, API, UI, exploratory and regression testing, and building automated test coverage using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress or similar. Responsibilities include integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, managing defects and traceability in Azure DevOps, and providing transparent quality reporting on test progress, automation coverage and risks to product and engineering stakeholders.