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About us Xcite Ventures Limited is a dynamic scale-up company in the Social Gaming Industry. We are all about building amazing entertainment products with the customer experience as the main priority. Our mission is to revolutionize online entertainment. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own and develop our QA automation strategy and build scalable, reliable automated testing across our product. This is a hands-on senior role combining automation engineering, quality strategy and AI-assisted testing, working closely with Manual QA, Developers and Product teams. What You’ll Do Own and continuously improve the QA automation strategy, standards, coverage and roadmap. Design, develop and maintain automated tests across UI, API, integration and end-to-end testing. Build and maintain automation using frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress or Selenium. Automate high-value regression scenarios, focusing on critical user journeys and product risks. Build and maintain Smoke, Regression, Critical Path and Release test suites. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. Ensure reliable coverage across browsers, devices and environments. Investigate flaky tests and failures using DevTools, logs, API traces, network requests and databases. Manage test data and other components required for reliable automation. Provide clear reporting on automation results, coverage and quality trends. Work with Manual QA and Engineering to identify risks, edge cases and the right automation opportunities. Use AI-assisted testing and development for test design, automation, debugging, failure analysis and test-data generation. Rapidly prototype scripts, internal tools and utilities that reduce repetitive manual work. Establish automation best practices and share technical knowledge across the QA team. What We’re Looking For Strong QA fundamentals and senior-level experience in QA Automation for web applications. Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress and/or Selenium. Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and API testing/automation experience. Good understanding of HTML, CSS, DOM, HTTP/HTTPS and browser DevTools. Experience with test automation architecture, CI/CD, Git and version control. Experience with SQL, database validation and test data management. Strong understanding of cross-browser/device testing, flaky test analysis and test reliability. Good understanding of risk-based automation, including what should and shouldn’t be automated. Practical understanding of performance and web security testing fundamentals. Experience with AI-assisted coding, test design and debugging, including prompt engineering and AI test-data generation. Interest or experience in agentic AI workflows, rapid prototyping and AI tool evaluation. Strong root-cause analysis, problem-solving and analytical skills. Strong ownership mindset and ability to collaborate effectively across QA, Engineering and Product. Nice to Have Experience within iGaming, social gaming or another high-volume digital product environment. Experience building internal QA tools, scripts or automation utilities. Experience mentoring Manual QA engineers and developing their technical skills.