QA Automation Engineer

Key Information Salary: £17,500 p/y Benefits: Paid leave allowance Location: Karachi or Islamabad (ideally) First, who are we? We're Cielo Costa – 26 people working fully-remotely across the UK, Pakistan, India, Tunisia, and the Philippines. We call ourselves Coasties. We build custom development solutions and advise on Microsoft platforms for clients in healthcare, built environments, and regulated sectors where quality is paramount. We're marathon runners, parents, triathletes, video gamers, musicians, photographers and travel enthusiasts! We care about our work and each other. Excellence in delivery is non-negotiable, but so is being human. The Role The purpose of your role is to own and evolve our automated test infrastructure - making sure every code change is validated fast, every release is safe to ship, and our QA team's energy goes toward finding real problems rather than repeating the same checks manually.. Tech Skills Playwright for end-to-end and API test automation Jest or Vitest for unit testing Java is part of your stack Azure DevOps - building and maintaining CI/CD pipeline integrations Comfortable with a MERN stack environment (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) What you'll do Communicate clearly with developers and Business Analysts without being a blocker You care about the product, not just the coverage metric You understand that the goal is not to automate everything, it is to automate the right things, reduce release risk, and make quality visible early. A reliable automated regression suite across unit, API, and UI layers, integrated into CI/CD and trusted by the team before every release. Fast, reliable feedback that developers can act on without waiting for manual sign-off A foundation that frees the QA team to focus on exploratory and edge case testing Clear documentation so the framework grows with the team, not around one person Additional Responsibilities Triage automation-identified defects and support the wider team in doing the same. Own a balanced test strategy across unit, API, integration, and E2E layers. Partner with developers on testable acceptance criteria before work ships. Maintain reusable utilities, fixtures, and documentation so the suite is easy to extend. Surface test gaps, flaky tests, and quality trends to support release confidence. Sounds like you? Hit apply and we'll be in touch.