Job Specifications
About The Role
At TRI, our mission is to make Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM) simple; making it accessible, understandable, and actionable for clinical trials of any scale and complexity. We develop innovative technologies and simplified solutions to empower research organizations and sponsors, ensuring the highest standards of trial integrity and participant safety.
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Automation Test Engineer to design, implement, and evolve a robust and scalable automated testing capability that underpins product quality and delivery confidence. This role combines hands on technical leadership with people management and strategic ownership of test automation frameworks, tooling, and reporting. You will mentor and lead the automation team while acting as a key quality advocate across the organisation.
It will be your responsibility to:
People Leadership & Line Management
Provide effective line management through regular 1:1 meetings, formal performance reviews, and ongoing coaching.
Own career development, growth plans, and performance management for direct reports within the automation team.
Automation Strategy, Planning & Delivery
Lead the planning, design, and development of automated test solutions, ensuring full coverage and adherence to best practices.
Drive the creation and maintenance of a scalable, maintainable, and reliable automation test suite.
Resource & Capacity Planning
Partner closely with the CTPO to define project scope, forecast demand, allocate resources, and establish realistic delivery goals and timelines.
Technical Leadership & Code Quality
Enforce high standards of code quality through mandatory peer reviews and Pull Request governance.
Act as the technical authority for automation frameworks, patterns, and implementation standards.
Framework & Tooling Evolution
Lead the evaluation, selection, and integration of new automation tools and technologies to continuously improve efficiency and coverage.
Hands-on Contribution
Remain actively involved by contributing directly to automation development and supporting delivery when required.
Process Improvement & Metrics
Analyse automation trends, test results, and metrics to identify risks, root causes, and long-term improvement opportunities.
Define, refine, and enforce automation standards, best practices, and tooling strategies.
Reporting & Visibility
Design and maintain a centralised automation reporting infrastructure.
Ensure test results and quality metrics are easily accessible, clearly interpretable, and valuable for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Team Culture & Collaboration
Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture focused on collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Your Skills & Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience in software testing.
Demonstrable hands-on experience designing and developing test automation frameworks especially Azure DevOps and Cypress
Expert-level skills in test analysis, risk-based testing, and automated quality assurance.
Proven experience managing people or leading a technical automation team or stream.
Expert knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks relevant to modern software delivery.
Strong experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automated test reporting infrastructure.
Proven ability to plan automation activities, estimate effort, and forecast resources effectively.
Exceptional attention to detail with a consistent focus on delivering high-quality software.
Excellent communication, mediation, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
Benefits & Compensation
Salary - £65,000 - £68,000
Flexible, remote-first working. You will be able to enjoy all the benefits of working from home, with access to coworking spaces close to you if required (via Hubble membership).
Generous holiday as standard. We offer 27 days holiday, with a company shutdown between Christmas and New Year. Sometimes we also offer an extra, discretionary, paid day off to celebrate a specific company success.
Extra holiday on top. For every full year you are with TRI, you will earn an extra day of holiday, up to a maximum of 30 days.
Carefully considered, market-leading salaries. We regularly benchmark our salaries to make sure we are offering at the top end of the scale. You will have your salary reviewed annually.
Enhanced pension offer. Following your probation period, you can opt in to our enhanced pension contributions arrangement. It’s a salary sacrifice scheme, paid on your full salary (not just the ‘qualifying amount’), which means you get better pension contributions alongside valuable tax and National Insurance savings.
Health and wellbeing support. We offer all employees a health cash plan with Simply Health, allowing you to look after your health and wellbeing every day. Our Optimise Level 5 plan includes cash back for a huge range of health
About the Company
Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM) drives better clinical trials, improved patient safety, and compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
At TRI, we make RBQM work. Deployed on over 450 clinical trials, we understand the challenges and how to overcome them. Our industry-leading RBQM platform, OPRA, is built by operational experts to support Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Central Monitoring--all in one intuitive system.
With two core modules, OPRA-RAM and OPRA-CM, OPRA enables teams to focus on what matters most...
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