QA Automation Lead - 6 Month Contract
- Fully remote, must be based in Ireland
- Newly created role within a growing SaaS business
- Initial 6-month contract with a strong day rate, high extension chance
- Opportunity to have a genuine impact on the company’s QA strategy
QA Automation Lead required for a fully remote 6-month contract, with an opportunity to make a real impact within a small but established SaaS business experiencing significant demand and growth.
As part of their 2027 growth strategy, the company has identified a need to significantly improve QA coverage and automation. They are therefore looking to bring in a senior QA professional who can help shape and implement their automation strategy, improve test coverage, mentor junior QAs and work closely with the Development and DevOps teams to embed effective testing practices across the technology estate.
This is a hands-on QA leadership role and would suit someone who enjoys being close to the technology. You’ll have the opportunity to build and improve automation frameworks from the ground up, while also working across the wider engineering function to understand bottlenecks, identify gaps and provide a strong QA perspective on development and delivery.
The technology environment is particularly interesting, with modern applications built on a Spring Boot microservices architecture, alongside Machine Learning and LLM technologies. This is a genuinely modern SaaS environment where there is plenty of scope to influence how QA is approached going forward.
Desired Skills & Experience
- 7+ years’ experience in QA Automation, including experience building automation frameworks from scratch
- Previous experience operating in a QA Lead / Senior QA capacity, with a strong understanding of QA strategy, planning and best practice
- Strong hands-on automation experience, ideally with Playwright or a similar modern framework
- Experience developing performance / load testing solutions would be highly beneficial
- Exposure to Gatling would be advantageous but is not essential
- Strong understanding of QA planning across regression, integration and UAT
- Strong experience working closely with DevOps teams and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to communicate effectively with Developers, DevOps and other technical stakeholders
- A hands-on approach with the ability to operate strategically while still getting into the detail
For more information, please get in contact with Ross Irwin at The Recruitment Company.