Automation Engineer

We’re looking for an Automation Engineer to join our Quality Engineering Team, designing and building automation solutions across a range of clients, technologies and challenges.

You won’t be working on the same product or maintaining the same test suite indefinitely. One project might mean building an automation framework from the ground up, while another could involve improving an existing approach, integrating automation into a delivery pipeline or solving a particular technical challenge.

You’ll work with our Lead Automation Engineer, Technical Services Director and wider Quality Engineering Team. As you develop in the role, there’ll be opportunities to take on more complex technical work, greater ownership and more client responsibility, with the opportunity to progress towards a Senior Automation Engineer role.

What you'll do as our Lead Automation Engineer

You’ll help our clients get more value from automation - building solutions that are reliable, maintainable and appropriate for the problem they’re trying to solve.

On a typical project, you might:

• Design, build and maintain automated tests, frameworks and reusable testing components.

• Work with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, depending on the needs of the project.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.

• Write clean, maintainable code, contribute to code reviews and investigate failures to improve the reliability of automated testing.

• Work with testers, developers and clients to understand what they need and identify where automation can add value.

• Contribute to technical discovery, project planning and estimates.

• Apply and develop your experience in areas such as API and integration testing, working alongside our Performance Testing Team where our work overlaps.

• Explore how new tools and approaches, including AI-assisted development and testing, can be used to solve real problems and improve how we work.

The experience you'll bring

You’ll already have hands-on experience with test automation and be comfortable writing automated tests, working within existing frameworks and getting into the detail when things don’t go as expected.

You don’t need to be an expert in every tool we use or have experience in every area we work in. We’re looking for someone with a solid foundation in automation who wants to broaden their technical experience, work across different challenges and take on more responsibility over time.

Here’s what we think would set you up well for the role:

• Hands-on experience with one or more automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress or Selenium.

• Programming experience in one or more languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java or C#.

• Experience working with automation frameworks and an understanding of how they’re structured and maintained.

• Experience with API testing, ideally REST and JSON, using tools such as Postman or Bruno.

• A good working understanding of Git and source control.

• An understanding of CI/CD and how automated testing fits into a development pipeline.

• Confidence investigating failures, working through problems and improving test reliability.

• Experience working collaboratively with developers, testers and other technical teams.

Experience with cloud platforms, mobile automation, performance testing, security testing or AI-assisted development would be useful but isn't essential.

And the way you work

Your technical skills matter, but so does how you approach your work. We’re looking for someone who’s curious, enjoys solving problems and wants to keep developing skills.

You’ll be someone who:

• Likes getting into the detail to understand how things work and why they don’t.

• Takes ownership of your work and cares about building automation that’s reliable and useful.

• Enjoys solving problems and is willing to try different approaches when something isn’t working.

• Works well with others, sharing ideas, asking questions and learning from the people around you.

• Is comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical people.

• Is interested in new tools and approaches but thinks about where they can genuinely add value.

• Cares about doing good work and the difference it makes for our clients and their users.

Your working hours and location

• Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30

• Location: Remote, office-based or hybrid - whatever works best for you. If you’re working remotely, we’ll ask you to travel to our Eastbourne office from time-to-time for team collaboration, company events and other activities. There may also be occasions when you’ll need to travel to a client location as part of a project.

What we offer

Just a few of the things we get as part of working at Zoonou:

• Employee ownership bonus - when Zoonou does well, we all share in it. The first £3,600 of our EO bonus is tax free.

• Enhanced parental leave - we support our parents with advanced maternity and paternity cover.

• Paid volunteer days - we each get two days' paid leave to volunteer our time for causes that we personally care about.

• Celebrate your way - we can swap bank holidays to celebrate significant religious holidays such as Diwali, Eid or Passover.

• Up-to 35 days' holiday - we get 32 days holiday (including bank holidays), plus an extra day each year from years 2-5.

• Buy and sell holiday - we can buy or sell up-to 5 days of annual leave each year.

• Training and development: we each have a training budget and professional development plan that actually gets used..

• Flexible ways of working: we can work remotely, from our Eastbourne office or a mix of both.

• Funded mental health support: we know support isn’t one-size-fits-all, so we fund professional support based on what each of us needs.

• We have a range of other benefits we can take advantage of including an electric car scheme, a cycle-to-work scheme, a tech scheme, discount vouchers and season ticket loans.

Head over to our careers page to learn more about our culture at and what it's like to work at Zoonou.

Diversity, equity and inclusion 

At Zoonou, we welcome applications from all sections of society. We’re dedicated to building a diverse workplace where everyone feels included, valued, and able to do their best work.

You don’t need to tick every box to apply - if you’re excited about the role and our company, we want to hear from you.