Senior QA Engineer (Automation)

At Johnson Matthey, your work will matter. As a Senior QA Engineer (Automation), you’ll join a world leader in platinum group metals with over 200 years of history and innovation. You’ll help tackle the world’s biggest challenges - cutting emissions, powering modern society and enhancing lives - as we continue to apply, refine and recycle metals that matter, for a healthier and more resilient future.

The role:

As a Senior QA Engineer (Automation), you will help drive our goals by:

• Defining and delivering effective testing strategies to ensure high-quality solutions across a diverse portfolio of enterprise applications, platforms, and systems.

• Leading testing activities across multiple projects, combining manual, exploratory, and automated testing to identify risks and provide reliable feedback.

• Working closely with developers, architects, delivery teams, and business stakeholders to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Driving automation and continuous testing practices, helping teams improve test coverage, reduce risk, and increase confidence in releases.

• Coaching and supporting other quality engineers while promoting quality engineering best practices across teams.

• Helping shape and improve quality engineering standards, testing practices, automation frameworks, and tooling.

Key skills that will help you succeed in this role:

• 4+ years' experience in senior quality assurance, testing, or quality engineering roles within complex delivery environments.

• Hands-on experience with test automation tools or frameworks and a good understanding of automation principles and best practices.

• Strong knowledge of software testing techniques, including functional, regression, integration, API, and performance testing.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across multiple projects and business areas.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify risks, investigate issues, and improve quality outcomes.

• Proven ability to take ownership, work independently, and deliver high-quality results across multiple projects.

Even if you only match some of the skills, we’d love to hear from you to discuss further!

What we offer:

We make sure salaries are fair, competitive and aligned to individual roles, experience and responsibilities. We are also supportive of hybrid and flexible working and where applicable, offer life, medical and other benefits that support our employees’ financial and physical wellbeing, such as:

• Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; hybrid way of working; health insurance from the first day of employment; employee assistance program

• Life, accidents & critical diseases insurance

• 25 days of paid vacation leave

• IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contributions

• Paid volunteering opportunities (2 days per year)

• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization

Ready to make a meaningful impact on your career and the environment? Join us and help shape a sustainable future while advancing your career!

At JM, inclusivity is central to our values. We create an environment where everyone can thrive, embracing diverse perspectives to tackle challenges and ensure all colleagues feel valued and connected.

For any queries or accessibility requirements, please contact [email protected]. We will work with you to make suitable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All conversations are confidential, and your feedback is welcome to help us provide an accessible and positive recruitment experience.

Closing date for applications: This job advertisement will be posted for a minimum of 2 weeks, early application is advised.

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How to apply:

If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online. For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please let your recruiter know when they contact you.

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