Senior QA Automation Engineer

Who are Benifex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

• Autonomy : Joining as the dedicated QA in the squad, being able to shape and own quality across the squad
• Learning : Being part of the QA Guild you'll be able to learn and share knowledge with talented QA Engineers
• Impact : Play a critical role in driving a shift left approach within the squad and improving the quality of our products
• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Great benefits:

💰 €60,000-80,000

🤸 Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once/twice a quarter in the UK for our quarterly engineering and company meetups. 

💻 Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or Windows equivalent, monitors, etc.)

💸 Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

✈️ 30 days total, 20 Statutory holidays and 10 non-statutory holidays.

❤️ Two volunteering days per year 

🧘‍♀️ €500 annual wellness budget for health-related activities or items

🩺 Occupational health support for work-related health needs like stress support, injury prevention, and ergonomic advice.

💰 Referral bonuses

🌟 Parental and maternity leave 

✈️ Workation / Work from Anywhere policy, 10 days per quarter

Role Overview 🚀

We're looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineers to join our Benefits Back Office squad. The Senior QA Automation Engineer, day to day will be working closely with the other Engineers in the squad ensuring the product is evolving to meet the overall roadmap and strategy, as well as working closely with the Staff QA Engineer and wider QA Guild in building out our automation test frameworks and best practices.

You will help evangelise test automation within the squad teams, be hands on with test automation initiatives and play a crucial role in supporting our agile software development lifecycle.

  Responsibilities 🤘

• Design, enable, create, maintain and improve automated tests and their structure on both fronts Backend and Frontend.
• Embed testing early in the software development lifecycle by collaborating with developers, PM, EM, UX and stakeholders.
• Ensure early defect detection and prevention.
• Write clear and concise test cases.
• Identify, document and track defects.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to improve the overall quality and maintainability of the test automation codebase.
• Contribute to the overall QA strategy by suggesting and implementing process improvements, tools and technologies.
• Advocate and ensure best practices in quality and continuous testing.
• Propose and optimize testing process, continuously look for ways of improving.

What are we looking for? 🔎

• Extensive experience in Automation testing across the entire stack (UI and API)
• Able to create, maintain and improve Cypress and Rest Assured testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of programming languages ideally Java, Golang, JavaScript , Typescript
• Use of tools and frameworks - Cypress, Playwright, Junit, Postman, Saucelabs, Rest Assured
• Solid understanding of all test levels and how they play together, ensuring a balanced and effective distribution of them. For example, patterns like test pyramid, test trophy.
• Experience with CI/CD tools.
• Experience with continuous testing and shift-left approach.
• Collaboration : Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and remote teams, to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Proactive Problem-Solving: A resourceful approach to tackling complex challenges and driving projects forward with minimal guidance.
• Technical Excellence : A strong advocate for clean code, best practices, and high-quality software development.

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow.

Our interview process

✌ Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial call with the Talent team

🧪 Interview with Engineering Manager (30 min)

📝 Technical Task

⏳ Interview with our Staff QA Engineer and Senior QA (60 min)

🤩 Final interview with VP of Engineering (45 min)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.