Test Automation Lead
United Kingdom (Remote)
Reporting to: Head of Engineering
Remuneration: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum depending on experience - plus £1,000 working from home allowance
Contract Type: Permanent/ Full time – 40 hours per week
Location: Home-based/various UK meeting locations as required
Closing Date for applications: Monday 6th July
(We reserve the right to close this advertisement early should we receive a high volume of applications.)
About Us:
Psychiatry UK is the UK’s leading provider of digital psychiatry services, working both privately and with the NHS to support children, teenagers and adults with expert, patient-centred care.
A career with Psychiatry UK allows you to expand your knowledge, enhance your skills, and gain valuable life experience—all while enjoying the flexibility of a remote full-time role. As part of a leading online mental health service, you'll collaborate with innovative, forward-thinking professionals in a dynamic, multidisciplinary team committed to making a real difference.
As our Test Automation Lead, you will define and drive our test automation strategy, working closely with the Head of Engineering to build organisation-wide support and encourage adoption across all teams that deliver software. You will collaborate with engineers, Quality Engineers, and data scientists, while partnering with product managers, clinicians, and the Information Governance team to help ensure our systems remain robust, reliable, and safe for the patients who rely on them.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will lead through expertise and influence. You will own and evolve our automation frameworks, increasing their adoption across teams, developing automation capability, and helping establish automated testing as a consistent, shared practice. Our teams bring extensive product and domain expertise, and your automation leadership will enhance and scale our testing approach as the platform continues to grow.
This is a home-based role (applicants must reside in the UK), though occasional travel may be required for face-to-face meetings at various locations within the UK.
As our Test Automation Lead, you will:
Define and lead an organisation-wide test automation strategy, securing stakeholder buy-in and driving adoption across engineering teams.
Build and maintain scalable, reusable automated test frameworks using Playwright, Jest, and pytest.
Enable delivery teams to create and own automated tests while Quality Engineers retain ownership of test design, scenarios, and plans.
Coordinate testing activities across web applications, APIs, data platforms, and integrated systems.
Implement and manage test management tools to support planning, execution, reporting, and traceability.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, monitor test health, and ensure reliable feedback loops.
Establish automated coverage for non-functional requirements, including performance, accessibility (WCAG), and regression testing.
Champion quality engineering best practices, promoting automation, unit testing, and continuous improvement across teams.
Contribute to release planning, risk assessment, and quality metrics reporting to support informed delivery decisions.
Support AI/ML, data pipeline, and analytics testing while implementing synthetic test data strategies and privacy-by-design practices that avoid the use of real patient data.
To succeed as our Test Automation Lead, you will have:
Proven experience in software testing, with at least 2 years in a test leadership role.
Strong hands-on experience with test automation tools, preferably Playwright.
Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python.
Solid understanding of QA methodologies, test planning, and risk-based testing.
Experience with unit testing frameworks such as pytest and Jest.
Experience testing web applications, REST APIs, and ideally data pipelines.
Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Able to influence, build consensus, and drive adoption across teams without direct authority.
A coaching and enabling style, comfortable upskilling engineers and quality colleagues.
Pragmatic and delivery-focused, balancing rigour against shipping.
Experience with test data management, including synthetic or seeded test data.
Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Experience working in regulated environments, ideally within healthcare or NHS digital services.
Experience testing machine learning or generative AI applications.
Familiarity with data quality testing, ETL pipelines, and report validation.
Knowledge of performance, load, accessibility (e.g. WCAG, axe), or security testing tools.
Psychiatry UK: Supporting You
We want you to enjoy your work while feeling healthy, happy, and appreciated. That’s why we’ve created a benefits package designed with you in mind. You’ll have access to a range of wellbeing perks, including a Health Cash Plan, Well Hub Subscription, access to an Employee Assistance Programme, Annual Volunteering Day, Enhanced Sickness and Family Leave pay, Length of Service Bonus, Work from Home allowance and Pension options.
At Psychiatry UK, we care about what matters to you.
Recruitment Process
At Psychiatry UK, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Our process includes:
Application
Profile review
Screening conversation
Competency based interview(s)
If at any point you require any reasonable adjustments —such as additional time, assistive technology, or an alternative format for materials—please let us know. We are happy to accommodate your needs to ensure you have a fair and comfortable experience. Please feel free to reach out to us at people@psychiatry-uk.com to discuss any adjustments that would support you.
If this opportunity excites you, why not apply today?
We review applications as they come in and may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of interest. To ensure you don’t miss out, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Psychiatry UK is the leading online psychiatric service – working to solve the mental health crisis.
Psychiatry UK was founded in 2012 with a mission to remove the traditional barriers to mental health care and make support accessible to all.
We provide specialist online psychiatric services to patients across the UK; connecting patients with expert clinicians who deliver the safe and trustworthy care they need.
We treat a wide range of mental health issues including ADHD in adults and children, ASD in adults and children, Dementia and Memory Loss, Stress, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression.
Psychiatry UK is a Care Quality Commission regulated healthcare provider and our GMC registered psychiatrists offer diagnosis and treatment to patients, both privately and on behalf of the NHS. We are a qualified provider of adult ADHD and ASD services under the NHS Right to Choose (RTC) scheme.
