Automation Tester
2 days ago
Driffield, Hybrid Department: Product & Engineering – Helm WMS
Reports To: Head of Product / QA Lead
The Despatch Company builds industry-leading Warehouse Management Systems, powering thousands of ecommerce, 3PL, and logistics operations worldwide. Our flagship products, Products 3.6 and the new generation V7 WMS , provide advanced inventory, fulfilment, and warehouse automation capabilities. We are expanding our Quality Assurance function with a dedicated tester who can drive automated testing , strengthen release reliability, and ensure our WMS platforms are robust, scalable, and ready for real-world warehouse environments.
The Automation-Focused Software Tester will be responsible for planning, building, and maintaining automated testing frameworks across our WMS platforms, with additional manual QA work where required.
This role is ideal for someone who has a passion for automation, wants to influence QA strategy, and enjoys working closely with developers, product managers, and end users to ensure our products meet the highest standard of performance and reliability.
You will contribute across the full testing lifecycle: requirement analysis, test case creation, automated script development, regression coverage, and release validation.
Automation Testing (Primary Focus)
Design, build, and maintain automated testing scripts for Products 3.6 and V7 WMS.
Develop scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, and integration testing.
Continuously expand automation coverage to reduce manual regression workload.
Monitor automation test runs, analyse failures, and maintain high execution reliability.
Manual QA & Functional Testing
Conduct manual exploratory testing where automation is unsuitable.
Validate system updates, patches, and new features across web and mobile.
Communicate test results and quality risks to development and business teams.
Help shape a culture of quality, robust testing, and proactive risk mitigation.
Support load, stress, performance, and scalability testing as needed.
Participate in code reviews of test automation scripts.
Support release cycles and deployment activities.
Minimum 2 years of hands-on testing experience in a software environment.
Demonstrable experience with automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, Postman/Newman, or similar.
Experience writing automated tests in languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Java .
Strong understanding of testing methodologies (smoke, regression, sanity, UAT, exploratory, etc.).
Experience testing web applications , ideally with API/backend validation.
Ability to work independently across multiple projects and deadlines.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps-driven automation environments.
Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, or Gatling.
Ability to set up environments, test data, and automated workflows end-to-end.
Passionate about automation and test quality.
Influence the QA strategy and automation roadmap.
Fast-growing company with a collaborative engineering culture.
Flexible working environment and international team exposure.
Real impact on product quality and warehouse operations worldwide.
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