The role

We’re looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to help us develop and grow Zoonou’s automation capability.

For this role in particular, you won’t be stepping into something where every decision has already been made. We have an established technical team and automation experience to build on, but there’s genuine scope for you to influence what our automation capability becomes.

You’ll take ownership of automation solutions across client projects, help shape our approach and support the engineers around you to develop their skills.

We work across different clients, sectors and technologies, so you won’t be maintaining the same test suite indefinitely. You’ll be solving different problems and working out what good automation looks like in each context. We don't have a prescribed automation stack that you'll be expected to follow. Part of the role is deciding what approach makes sense for each client, technology and problem.

You’ll be involved from the start of a project, working with our commercial and technical teams to understand what a client is trying to achieve, explore what’s possible and shape the right solution. From there, you’ll help design, build and deliver the automation itself.

You’ll work closely with our Technical Services Director, alongside our performance testing and wider technical services team.

You don’t need ‘Lead’ in your current job title to apply. We’re equally interested in experienced Senior Automation Engineers who are ready to take on greater technical leadership, client responsibility and the opportunity to help others develop.

What you'll do as our Lead Automation Engineer

You’ll help our clients get more value from automation - designing solutions that are reliable, maintainable and appropriate for the problem they’re trying to solve.

On a typical day, you might:

• Take technical ownership of automation projects, from discovery and solution design through to delivery.
• Design and build robust, maintainable automation frameworks for web and API testing.
• Work hands-on with tools such as Playwright, Cypress and Selenium, choosing the right approach for each project.
• Integrate automated testing into client CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Build reusable components and tooling that help make automated testing more efficient, reliable and useful.
• Work directly with clients to understand their needs, explain technical options clearly and recommend practical solutions.
• Support our commercial team with technical discovery, scoping, estimation and proposals.
• Work alongside our performance testing specialists where automation and performance engineering overlap.
• Help other engineers through pairing, code reviews, mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Explore emerging approaches in automation and AI-assisted testing, helping us understand where new technology can add genuine value for our clients.
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