Senior Developer in Test – Playwright
At a glance
- Senior, hands-on quality engineering role with real influence
- Own and shape automated testing strategy end to end
- Modern stack across TypeScript, Playwright, Java Spring and AWS
- Work closely with backend, DevOps and product teams
- Hybrid working with a strong engineering-led culture
The role
Ocho is working with a fast-growing, security-focused technology scaleup building advanced hardware and cloud software used by high-profile organisations across security, services and public safety.
They are now hiring a Senior Engineer in Test to take ownership of testing strategy and execution across the entire platform. This is not a box-ticking QA role. It is a senior engineering position where quality is designed in from day one, not checked at the end.
You will be a hands-on technical leader, driving automated testing, influencing engineering practices, and helping embed a true shift-left quality culture across the organisation.
What you’ll be doing
Test strategy and ownership
- Own and evolve the automated testing strategy across unit, integration, system and end-to-end testing
- Set and maintain the quality bar for a complex, distributed platform
- Identify gaps and prioritise improvements based on risk and impact
- Champion best practices and embed quality thinking across engineering teams
Automated testing and frameworks
- Design, build and maintain robust automated testing frameworks
- Extend and improve an existing TypeScript, Playwright-based end-to-end test suite
- Build and maintain integration and API tests for Java Spring microservices
- Ensure tests are fast, reliable and CI-friendly, using metrics and data to guide improvements
- Test distributed, microservice-based systems running in AWS
- Validate service-to-service interactions, async workflows and event-driven behaviour
- Ensure testing approaches scale as the platform grows globally
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years’ experience in test engineering or quality-focused engineering roles
- Strong engineering background with hands-on, production-quality test code
- Experience testing Java Spring applications and microservice architectures
- Hands-on experience with end-to-end testing frameworks, ideally Playwright
- Experience testing APIs, integrations and distributed systems
- Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native environments
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
What’s on Offer
· Salary up to £70k
· Flexible hybrid working model (Belfast office)
· Private pension scheme
· Private healthcare (including Dental / Optical)
· High spec equipment and modern engineering environment
For more information, connect with Neill Ferguson on LinkedIn or submit your CV via the link below.
