Test Automation Engineer

Test Automation Engineer

Location: Remote with requirement to travel 4-weekly to Birmingham for team meetings.

Hours: Full-time 9-5 Mon-Fri

Term: Fixed-term contract (18 months)

Salary: £40-45k DoE.

Right at Home UK is one of the country’s leading premium homecare provider delivering high-quality care to vulnerable adults in their own homes.

We are evolving our in-house care management solution, RightCareHQ (RCHQ). RCHQ is built on a Cloud based Platform, with a view to imminently expand further using Next.js and LLM models to support AI-first processes.

We are seeking a Test Automation Engineer on an 18-month fixed-term contract to focus on building and embedding a sustainable automation layer for RCHQ.

Benefits:

• 23 days annual leave (increasing with time served) plus bank holidays.

• Salary sacrifice company pension.

• Salary Sacrifice EV scheme.

• Contribution to private healthcare.

• Birthday leave.

The role

• Reporting to the Technical Lead, you’ll be working in a small, fast-paced team. Day-to-day, you will: 

• Analyse existing testing processes and identify where automation delivers the highest value.

• Build automated test suites for critical user journeys using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar.

• Create robust, maintainable scripts the team can continue using after your contract finishes.

• Design regression packs that are repeatable, readable, and scalable.

• Challenge unclear requirements and actively improve acceptance criteria.

• Help us move from reactive manual testing to proactive, automated quality.

• Support manual testing where it adds value, especially for edge cases or exploratory testing.

Your success in this role is measured not by the volume of tests written, but by: ‘Can the team continue delivering quality confidently after you leave?’

What we’re looking for

• Designing and implementing automated tests using a modern automation framework.

• Understanding test architecture, selectors, mocks, stubs, fixtures, and assertions.

• Understanding of relational databases.

• Testing APIs, UIs, and complex user flows for safety critical aspects of RCHQ.

• Turning vague requirements into clear test scenarios.

• Documenting your work in a way others can maintain.

• Building testing processes that scale beyond your contract period.

• Have a strong understanding of OOP and are comfortable writing quality code.

Preferred, not essential

• AzureDevOps, Figma, Python, Typescript, Git, MariaDB.

• Experience of Playwright

• Experience of Appian test tools (e.g. Cucumber, Fitnesse)

About you

• You take a disciplined, analytical approach to testing, with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and repeatability.

• You understand the real-world impact of failure on vulnerable people and treat testing as a critical safeguard.

• You take ownership, communicate clearly, challenge ambiguity, and design robust tests that prevent issues from recurring.

• You value automation for the speed, safety, and scalability it provides, applying sound judgement to protect both Clients and Carers.