Quality Engineer

Platform & Quality Engineer (Agentic)

Contract | London / Hybrid | GitHub Actions | AWS | Kubernetes | Playwright | Claude Code

We’re looking for an experienced Platform & Quality Engineer to join a small, specialist engineering team building a new digital delivery platform for a major multi-brand organisation.

This is an unusual hybrid role combining platform/DevOps engineering, automated testing and AI-assisted software delivery.

We’re looking for someone who sits comfortably between an SDET and Platform Engineer – somebody who can build the delivery pipelines the engineering team relies on, but who also has genuine depth around test strategy, automation and software quality.

The role

The engagement will broadly move through two phases.

Initially, you’ll take ownership of the team's delivery capability – building the GitHub Actions pipelines, GitOps delivery path and environments that allow changes to move quickly and reliably from development into running environments.

As the platform matures, your focus will increasingly move towards quality engineering and automated PR review.

A major part of this will involve using Claude Code within the CI/CD process, helping build and continually improve an automated quality gate that reviews code and generates meaningful test coverage.

You’ll also own the human side of the testing strategy, including exploratory testing and UAT where automation isn't the right answer.

What you'll be doing

• Building and operating CI/CD using GitHub Actions
• Implementing GitOps delivery with ArgoCD
• Working with AWS, EKS, Kubernetes and ECR
• Managing environments, namespaces, image promotion and deployment workflows
• Integrating Claude Code into automated PR review and CI

What we're looking for

You'll ideally have strong experience across:

• GitHub Actions – including reusable workflows, environments, runners and OIDC federation to AWS
• GitOps / ArgoCD
• Kubernetes / EKS
• AWS container environments including ECR
• Playwright – including fixtures, parallelism, trace debugging and diagnosing flaky tests
• Automated testing and wider test strategy
• Risk-based exploratory testing
• Modern CI/CD and software delivery practices

Crucially, we're looking for someone who is already using AI coding tools as part of their day-to-day engineering workflow.

Experience with Claude Code would be particularly valuable. You should be comfortable using AI to help generate, review and maintain code and test suites rather than simply experimenting with it occasionally.

Experience with areas such as Datadog, Turborepo, CloudFront, visual regression, accessibility testing, performance testing or security automation would also be useful.

The person

This could suit an experienced SDET / Quality Engineer who has developed deep CI/CD and platform expertise, or a Platform/DevOps Engineer who has genuine depth in automated testing and quality engineering.

We're particularly interested in engineers who think of the pipeline as a product – people who care about fast feedback, meaningful automation and making the development experience better for the whole team.

You'll be joining a small, highly collaborative team, so we're looking for somebody comfortable taking ownership while building solutions that the wider team can understand and maintain.

Location

You'll need to be within reasonable travelling distance of London, with some in-person collaboration required during the engagement.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

If you're an engineer who enjoys sitting at the intersection of Platform Engineering, Quality Engineering and AI-assisted development, we'd be very interested in speaking with you.