Test Automation Engineer

Role summary

Test Automation Engineer is a full-time role at d8eedab5-d750-47d2-ba1f-8bfec4820a1f in Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom (hybrid). Posted 2026-10-28. Experience level: 2-5.

Job title

Test Automation Engineer

Company

d8eedab5-d750-47d2-ba1f-8bfec4820a1f

Location

Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom

Work arrangement

hybrid

Employment type

full-time

Category

QA & Testing

Experience level

2-5

Date posted

2026-10-28

Job description

"At Klipboard we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work."

Klipboard provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world. With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in ERP/SaaS solutions, Klipboard has a wide range of clients includes wholesalers, distributors, merchants and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. Klipboard has offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya and North America. Our mission is simple: to design and deliver high performance, integrated ERP solutions that enable our distributive trade customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively.

Klipboard is a global, growing business that embraces AI and emerging technologies to enhance customer outcomes, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We’re looking for people who are curious about or fluid with AI, open to change, and excited to learn how technology can improve the way we work and help our customers which is always supported by strong human insight and communication.

We are looking for a forward-thinking QA Automation Engineer with strong Playwright experience and practical skills in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate software testing.

At Klipboard, we are evolving how we develop and deliver software, embracing AI-assisted engineering, automated testing and Continuous Delivery to improve quality and increase delivery velocity.

The successful candidate will be comfortable using modern AI development tools to generate, refine and maintain automated tests for complex web applications. They will combine sound testing principles with an engineering mindset, ensuring that automation provides meaningful validation of product functionality and customer workflows.

This role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys exploring new technologies, challenging traditional testing approaches and finding more efficient ways to deliver high-quality software.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Automated Testing and Quality Engineering

Design, develop and maintain automated end-to-end tests using Microsoft Playwright.

Build reliable automated test coverage for modern web applications, including complex user journeys and business workflows.

Develop maintainable test suites using TypeScript or JavaScript.

Apply risk-based testing principles to prioritise automation where it provides the greatest value.

Identify defects, investigate failures and provide clear, actionable feedback to engineering teams.

Ensure tests are reliable, repeatable and suitable for execution within CI/CD pipelines.

2. AI-Assisted Test Development

Use AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude or Codex to accelerate automated test development.

Generate Playwright tests from requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and existing application behaviour.

Use AI-assisted browser exploration and code analysis to identify test scenarios and potential gaps in coverage.

Apply effective prompt engineering techniques to generate, refine and maintain test automation.

Review and validate AI-generated tests to ensure they accurately reflect expected application behaviour.

Experiment with AI-enabled testing approaches to improve productivity, test quality and maintainability.

Share successful AI techniques and practices with other QA and Engineering colleagues.

3. Continuous Integration and Delivery

Integrate automated tests into Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD pipelines.

Support automated validation of software changes through pull requests and deployment workflows.

Work towards providing rapid, reliable feedback to developers on the quality of their changes.

Investigate and reduce flaky tests, unreliable execution and unnecessary maintenance overhead.

Support the engineering team's progression towards Continuous Delivery through effective automation.

4. Collaboration and Product Understanding

Work closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers and other QA colleagues to understand requirements and expected behaviour.

Develop a sound understanding of the product, its business processes and the customer workflows it supports.

Participate in refinement, planning, estimation and retrospectives.

Contribute to discussions on testability, quality risks and opportunities to improve software design.

Communicate progress, blockers and quality concerns clearly and constructively.

5. Continuous Improvement and Professional Development

Actively explore emerging AI and test automation capabilities.

Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive manual testing through effective automation.

Contribute to improvements in testing frameworks, engineering practices and team productivity.

Maintain awareness of modern testing techniques, tooling and software engineering practices.

Take ownership of personal development and share knowledge across the wider engineering organisation.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Test Automation

Practical experience developing automated web application tests using Playwright.

Good programming skills in TypeScript or JavaScript.

Experience testing modern, dynamic web user interfaces.

Understanding of end-to-end testing, regression testing, functional testing and test design.

Ability to create maintainable tests using robust locators, assertions and reusable components.

Experience debugging failed tests and distinguishing application defects from automation issues.

Artificial Intelligence

Demonstrable experience using AI coding assistants in software development or test automation.

Ability to use AI to generate and ref