Role : Lead QA Automation Engineer - SDET - Web/Mobile
Location : HQ in London, UK -daily remote working with occasional office visits as required
Start date : ASAP
Reporting to : CTO
Salary : Competitive, depending on experience.
Contract : Permanent, full-time role
Company Overview:
ToucanTech is a fast-growing tech scale-up, which is revolutionising community management. Our smart community management software, encompassing an all-in-one database, website, and comms system, is perfect for teams managing membership, alumni, fundraising, and special interest networks. It is used in over 25 countries across the world by organisations including schools, charities, universities, museums, professional associations, and sports clubs.
We’ve grown from 2 co-founders to an expanding team of over 60 Toucans based between London, Lisbon, and Sydney, and were recently named as one of the UK’s top 50 fastest growing scaleups!
Role Overview:
The successful candidate will be our first dedicated automation engineer, responsible for leading the business out of a manual testing only approach. Our team is highly enthusiastic and ready for change, but needs somebody who’s “been there and done it” to light the path. We have exciting challenges in the upcoming year, including productionising new AI features as well as an important language migration.
Your responsibilities will include:
- You will be the champion for test automation within the business - lead, inspire, educate and motivate
- You will personally write automated tests to show the team what good looks like
- You will take the lead on building up our test automation framework and assist with our CI/CD pipeline
- You will be obsessive about test coverage and methodical in your working practices to ensure the outcomes of what you’re building are measurable
- Success in your role will reduce regressions, reduce the manual testing workload and enable developers to focus on building exciting new features (and maintain tests for them!)
You will be part of our Tech Team. ToucanTech also has staff working in design, product, data, sales, marketing, operations, and customer support.
Required Skills
- You have a strong foundation in manual testing
- You have prior experience of test automation framework development from scratch
- You have the ability to identify and prioritise key areas of our application for automation, considering change risk and usage profile
- You are excited to roll up your sleeves and write tests yourself
- You have a good hold on at least one of these programming languages: JavaScript, PHP, Python, and know your way around Git.
- You have experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and mobile device testing, having written end-to-end browser tests e.g. using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress etc.
- You are a good communicator who can work cross-team to drive change
- You are able and willing to coach team members on automation
Desirable Skills
- You are passionate about technology, enjoy problem solving, live and breathe testing, and obsess about quality!
- You love to code and want to create elegant solutions that you can be proud of
- You have used Cucumber, or have worked with Gherkin syntax
- You have hands-on knowledge of building, running and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline e.g. using GitHub Actions
- You have previous experience of transitioning a team from manual-only to automation-led
Some of the benefits of this role:
- Flexible working hours and style.
- Training and support to develop your skills and career.
- Friendly nurturing environment with a strict no blame only learn culture!
- Transparency internally about company direction/ strategy & tactics across teams.
- Regular team events, lunches, and meetups.
- A central London office with a fully stocked drinks fridge.
- 24 days holiday per year + public holidays.
Unfortunately we are not able to sponsor foreign working visas at this time, so you will need to have the right to work in the UK.
If you apply during the holiday season, please do expect a slight delay in our response - but rest assured that your application will be considered as soon as possible.
