Full Description

About Inspiretec

Inspiretec delivers enterprise-scale travel technology platforms serving some of the largest leisure travel operators in the UK. Our end-to-end solutions — spanning reservations, CRM and digital customer engagement — support high transaction volumes, complex integrations and business-critical journeys, particularly during peak booking periods.

Our platform operates in a highly connected ecosystem, integrating with multiple third-party systems, suppliers and data sources. Reliability, performance and release confidence are critical to the businesses we support.

As we continue to scale, we are strengthening Quality Engineering as a core discipline to enable faster, safer and more predictable delivery across our enterprise platform.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Test Automation Engineer to take ownership of Inspiretec’s automation, integration and performance testing capability.

We have established a foundation in UI automation using Playwright, alongside early-stage API automation investment. This role will lead the next stage of maturity: improving coverage, increasing reliability, reducing manual testing effort, and embedding automation as a standard part of how we deliver software.

A key strategic priority for Inspiretec is to increase delivery cadence without increasing risk. This role will be central to achieving that — enabling more frequent releases through robust automation, repeatable integration testing approaches, and performance testing that reflects real-world demand.

This is a leadership role with genuine influence. You will set standards, drive adoption across teams, and grow a sustainable quality engineering capability through a combination of hiring, mentoring and upskilling.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Ownership

Own and evolve Inspiretec’s automation and performance testing strategy Increase automation coverage across both new feature development and regression suites Reduce manual testing effort across delivery teams Embed automation within the development lifecycle (Definition of Done, PR validation, CI/CD quality gates) Establish a clear strategy for testing complex third-party integrations Implement approaches where full test environments may not exist (mocking, stubbing, service virtualisation) Define and implement a reliable, scalable test data management strategy Align quality metrics with deployment frequency, defect escape rates and manual effort reduction

Hands-On Engineering

Design, build and maintain scalable automation frameworks (Playwright and supporting tooling)

Deliver automated testing across

• Functional UI
• API and microservices
• Integration
• End-to-End