Senior QA Engineer, Pinewood.AI

• Proven experience as a Senior QA or Test Lead in enterprise or SaaS environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright (preferred) or similar UI automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress)
• Solid understanding of integration and API testing, regression strategy, and CI/CD integration (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
• Practical coding experience writing automated tests in JavaScript/TypeScript or Microsoft-aligned languages (.NET/C#)
• Experience defining QA strategy, test plans, acceptance criteria, and using metrics to measure outcomes
• Ability to lead a small team, mentor others, and take ownership for delivery quality
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on prevention through automation

Desirable

• Pinewood.AI is seeking a technically strong, hands-on Senior QA Engineer to own and deliver our quality strategy for our Automotive Intelligence Platform
• You’ll drive an automation-first testing approach, combining robust automated frameworks with practical, risk-based manual testing to ensure stable, high-quality releases as we expand into new markets
• In this role, you’ll define testing standards, build and maintain automated UI, integration and regression suites (we favour Playwright and the Microsoft tech stack), introduce data-driven test metrics, and mentor a small team of testers
• Working closely with developers, product managers, support and implementation teams, you’ll close quality gaps, reduce recurring issues and improve release cadence
• This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll set strategy and also write tests, build frameworks, and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Define and own the QA strategy with a focus on automation-first testing across UI, integration and regression suites
• Design, build and maintain automated test frameworks (Playwright preferred) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines
• Lead hands-on testing, including writing automated tests, performing manual exploratory testing, and triaging defects
• Collaborate with Product, Development and Support teams to create test plans, acceptance criteria and release gates
• Implement automated UI and API/integration tests to ensure robust regression coverage for critical user journeys
• Establish and report on test metrics (defect trends, coverage, release health) to drive continuous improvement
• Mentor and guide other testers/engineers, acting as a technical lead as and when required while remaining hands-on
• Investigate live issues, support post-release troubleshooting, and expand automated coverage where gaps are found