Job Description

Test Automation Engineer

Location: Remote with requirement to travel 4-weekly to Birmingham for team meetings.

Hours: Full-time 9-5 Mon-Fri

Term: Fixed-term contract (18 months)

Salary: 40-45k DoE.


Right at Home UK is one of the country's leading premium homecare provider delivering high-quality care to vulnerable adults in their own homes.


We are evolving our in-house care management solution, RightCareHQ (RCHQ). RCHQ is built on a Cloud based Platform, with a view to imminently expand further using Next.js and LLM models to support AI-first processes.


We are seeking a Test Automation Engineer on an 18-month fixed-term contract to focus on building and embedding a sustainable automation layer for RCHQ.

Benefits:

23 days annual leave (increasing with time served) plus bank holidays. Salary sacrifice company pension. Salary Sacrifice EV scheme. Contribution to private healthcare. Birthday leave.

The role

Reporting to the Technical Lead, you'll be working in a small, fast-paced team. Day-to-day, you will: Analyse existing testing processes and identify where automation delivers the highest value. Build automated test suites for critical user journeys using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar. Create robust, maintainable scripts the team can continue using after your contract finishes. Design regression packs that are repeatable, readable, and scalable. Challenge unclear requirements and actively improve acceptance criteria. Help us move from reactive manual testing to proactive, automated quality. Support manual testing where it adds value, especially for edge cases or exploratory testing.

Your success in this role is measured not by the volume of tests written, but by: 'Can the team continue delivering quality confidently after you leave?'

What we're looking for

Designing and implementing automated tests using a modern automation framework. Understanding test architecture, selectors, mocks, stubs, fixtures, and assertions. Understanding of relational databases. Testing APIs, UIs, and complex user flows for safety critical aspects of RCHQ. Turning vague requirements into clear test scenarios. Documenting your work in a way others can maintain. Building testing processes that scale beyond your contract period. Have a strong understanding of OOP and are comfortable writing quality code.

Preferred, not essential

AzureDevOps, Figma, Python, Typescript, Git, MariaDB. Experience of Playwright Experience of Appian test tools (e.g. Cucumber, Fitnesse)

About you

You take a disciplined, analytical approach to testing, with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and repeatability. You understand the real-world impact of failure on vulnerable people and treat testing as a critical safeguard. You take ownership, communicate clearly, challenge ambiguity, and design robust tests that prevent issues from recurring. * You value automation for the speed, safety, and scalability it provides, applying sound judgement to protect both Clients and Carers.