Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET

About the role

Dealers Hub, a UK‑based automotive SaaS company, is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET to own software quality and build a comprehensive QA framework for its Dealer Management System platform.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and lead the QA strategy, processes and testing standards across the platform.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for unit, functional, regression, integration, API and end‑to‑end tests.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and implement release testing procedures and quality gates.
• Build test plans, test cases and documentation; investigate recurring defects and collaborate on root‑cause analysis.
• Perform performance, load and reliability testing and introduce bug‑tracking, defect prioritisation and quality reporting.

Required profile

• Minimum 4 years of hands‑on software QA and test automation experience.
• Proven ability to establish or significantly improve QA automation processes and work independently.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills.

Required skills

• C# programming in a .NET environment.
• Experience with Playwright, Selenium or Cypress.
• Knowledge of xUnit, NUnit or MSTest.
• REST API testing using Postman.
• Understanding of ASP.NET Core, SQL Server and Entity Framework.
• CI/CD integration with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker and cloud‑based testing environments (nice to have).
• Performance testing tools such as JMeter or k6 (nice to have).