Senior QA/Test Automations Engineer

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Contribute to a proactive quality engineering culture by designing testing frameworks and infrastructure that empowers teams to deliver high-quality software at scale.

Hey! We’re Plum, your smart saving and investing app on a mission to help grow money for life. Whether you’re stashing the cash for tea and toast in your first home or catching some rays during retirement, Plum’s got your back.

Since 2016, over 2 million people in 10 European markets have set aside more than £2 billion with our clever automation and AI – that’s the magic of Plum! As recognition for our work, we’ve received awards from the likes of Deloitte, Finder, and more.

That’s all down to our passionate team of 230+ Plumsters, who work around Europe to help us achieve our mission. And now we’re looking for more brilliant people to join us on our journey.

The Team & The Role

We're looking for a Senior QA/Test Automations Engineer to join our Engineering team and play a key role in transforming quality through culture, process, and tooling. You'll work closely with our engineering team bringing your expertise to help us transition from reactive bug catching to proactive quality engineering.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives on building shared infrastructure, driving cultural change, and enabling teams to ship faster with confidence. You'll be a force multiplier establishing frameworks, building tools, and setting standards that scale across the entire engineering organization.

What You Will Do

  • Build Shared Testing Infrastructure: Design and implement shared testing tools, mock services test data generation capabilities, and E2E test infrastructure that all squads can leverage
  • Establish Culture & Standards: Drive testing-first culture across the organization, create testing frameworks and standards, define test scenarios with Product Managers, and provide expert consultation on testing approaches in PRDs and TDDs
  • Strategic Oversight: Track and review quality KPIs, conduct monthly QA metrics reviews, audit E2E test coverage against critical paths, identify and fix flaky tests, and facilitate quarterly strategy reviews
  • Enable Self-Service: Create admin tooling and documentation that allows PMs and engineers to self-service test data creation and execute comprehensive testing independently

What We Look For

  • Proven senior level experience in test automation, with a track record of building testing infrastructure at scale
  • Deep expertise in E2E testing frameworks, test automation tools, and building mock services for complex integrations
  • Strong experience establishing testing culture and driving organizational change - you know how to make testing non-negotiable without creating friction
  • Excellent collaboration skills with proven ability to influence Engineering Leads, Product Managers, and senior leadership
  • Self-starter who can define strategy, prioritize ruthlessly, and execute with minimal oversight

Plum Perks

  • We're all in this together! Own part of the company through stock options 💷
  • Private health insurance
  • Annual training budget
  • Plum Premium
  • Referral scheme: earn competitive rewards
  • Flexible approach to remote working: we encourage at least 2 days a week in one of our beautiful offices in London, Athens or Cyprus
  • Team breakfasts and team lunches.
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • 45 work-from-anywhere days: giving you the flexibility to work your way.
  • 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years to take the break you deserve.
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • 1 paid volunteering day annually
  • Annual team trip: to a surprise destination!
  • A fun, inclusive company culture (think 🦄🌈💯)

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Thanks,

Team Plum 💜

Plum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Plum does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Equity Compensation: We're all in this together! Own part of the company through stock options 💷
  • Health Insurance: Private health insurance
  • Learning Budget: Annual training budget
  • Annual team trip: Annual team trip: to a surprise destination!
  • Paid Parental Leave: Enhanced parental leave
  • Paid Time Off: 25 days holiday + bank holidays

At Plum, we're on a mission to help everyone be financially better off! People all over the world are making bad financial decisions every day, due to lack of financial education, antiquated financial systems and temptation. In the UK alone, 50% of people have less than £100 in savings. We believe we can change that with great technology, data science and behavioural theory.Since the beginning of 2017 we've helped more than 1M people in the UK, we've put away more than £100 million and we've grown from 2 Co-founders sharing a rusty desk in Soho to a brilliant, hard-working team of 50+, with offices in London and Athens.What We Are BuildingPlum is a quirky and fun AI assistant that started life as a Messenger chatbot and is now available as an app for iOS and Android. By linking directly to our users’ bank accounts, we are able to analyse transaction data to learn about their income and spending.What We Offer A bucketful of challenging problems to solve, so hopefully that's your thing! Our job is to take a complicated, archaic domain and make it simple and accessible to everyone. One of the best learning experiences of your life. You'll get to work with extremely smart and capable people, with backgrounds in finance, physics, history, computing, languages and more. Competitive pay and company stock options – we are all in this together! 25 days holiday a year, excluding bank holidays (33 in total). Work from our London or Athens office (almost) whenever you want 🇬🇧🇬🇷 Team trip to secret destinations once a year ✈️ Plants, lots of plants 🌱 Fresh fruit (plums obviously), snacks with varying health benefits and great coffee. Because you can't be a startup without great coffee.

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