QA Engineer – Manual & Automation

Pinewood.AI

QA Engineer responsible for both manual and automation testing for Pinewood.AI's Automotive Intelligence Platform in a hybrid working environment.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeSolihull • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudCypressSeleniumSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own manual testing for assigned features from refinement to release
Design and execute meaningful test scenarios, not just scripted cases
Perform functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing
Validate requirements and acceptance criteria
Identify risk, edge cases, and user‑impacting defects early
Provide clear go/no‑go quality assessments for releases
Raise clear, actionable defects with strong reproduction steps
Assess severity, priority, and customer impact
Work closely with developers to support root‑cause analysis
Retest fixes thoroughly and verify acceptance
Engage actively in backlog refinement, planning, and retros
Challenge unclear or incomplete requirements constructively
Communicate quality status, risks, and confidence clearly
Contribute ideas to improve QA practices and consistency
Support regression and release testing activities
Work in a hybrid model (approx. 2 days currently onsite at Birmingham Business Park but we are moving to Solihull Blythe Valley in the summer 2026)

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong manual testing experience in Agile environments
Experience with at least one automation tool or framework (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)
Solid understanding of testing principles and techniques
Ability to test across browsers, devices, and environments
Experience with defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps)
API testing basics (e.g. Postman)
Comfortable validating data (basic SQL or equivalent)
Familiarity with version control (Git) is a plus
Thinks like a user, not just a tester
Focuses on risk and impact, not box‑ticking
Cares deeply about shipped quality
Shift left experience in the development cycle
**Desirable Experience:**
Testing dealer management systems or automotive retail software.
Familiarity with service scheduling, parts inventory, warranty workflows and aftersales processes.
Experience integrating Playwright or similar tools into Microsoft tech stacks and cloud CI pipelines.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary based on experience
Bonus scheme
Share scheme
Hybrid working
25 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays
4x life assurance
Enhanced family-friendly leave - 5 months' full pay for maternity or adoption, plus 2 weeks' fully paid paternity/adoption leave and an extra 2 weeks to use as paid annual leave within 24 months of birth or adoption
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - free, confidential 24/7 support for you and your immediate family (including counselling, legal & financial advice, and wellbeing resources)
Ongoing training & professional development
Cycle to Work scheme - save up to 40% on bikes and accessories through salary sacrifice
Eyecare vouchers - free eye test and contribution towards prescription glasses
Regular social events

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Hard Skills & Tools

manual testingfunctional testingregression testingexploratory testingintegration testingdefect trackingAPI testingbasic SQLautomation toolstesting principles

Soft Skills

communicationrisk assessmentproblem-solvingcollaborationcritical thinkinguser-centric thinkingconstructive feedbackquality assuranceadaptabilityattention to detail