QA Automation Engineer

The Company 

RightShip is the maritime industry's leading safety and risk intelligence platform. We exist to advance the vision of a Zero Harm maritime industry by enabling better safety decisions across the ecosystem.

By combining trusted standards, AI-native technology, rich maritime data and industry expertise, RightShip transforms complex safety and operational risk into intelligence our customers can act on with confidence.

More than 1,000 organisations worldwide rely on RightShip to strengthen safety, improve resilience, simplify compliance and raise standards across global shipping. As RightShip evolves into a scalable intelligence platform, we continue to connect the global supply chain around a shared ambition: safer people, safer vessels and a safer, more sustainable industry.

To find out more visit RightShip.com. 

What we offer 

We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organization who are constantly working to ensure ships are safe as possible so that crew and cargo are protected. We are passionate about maritime efficiency, safety and sustainability practices. 

We offer generous rewards. Our base salary is competitive, we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is awesome. We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way and we are committed to professional development to make sure your career keeps growing while you’re working with us.

What makes RightShip a great place to work at:

RightShip is an equal opportunity employer, and we champion diversity. Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.

Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply! Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement.  At RightShip we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. We want to add team members who not only value RightShip standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to our work environment. If you are excited about this role, or about our company in general, we would love to hear from you!

We are seeking a QA Automation Engineer who will also take on the Scrum Master role for their squad. This dual-role position helps scale the quality and stability of our digital platforms through advanced UI test automation, while also driving delivery flow, transparency, and continuous improvement across the sprint cycle.

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining automated UI test scripts using Playwright, driven by existing TestRail test cases. You will work closely with QA, engineering, and product teams during sprints to expand automation coverage and improve test reliability.

During regression and UAT periods, you will contribute to manual testing efforts, ensuring our releases meet both functional and business expectations.

As Scrum Master, you will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, coach the team on Agile practices, and coordinate release management activities — ensuring the squad delivers predictably and continuously improves.

You'll also explore AI-assisted testing strategies to speed up development and identify opportunities for intelligent test optimization.

Responsibilities

QA Automation & Testing

• Develop and maintain UI test automation scripts using Playwright in TypeScript/JavaScript, aligned with TestRail cases.
• Integrate and manage test scripts within GitHub repositories, following version control best practices.
• Design and maintain CI-integrated test pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions) to detect UI regressions early.
• Work with QA, product, and engineering teams to prioritize test automation coverage during sprints.
• Support manual regression and UAT testing during release weeks to ensure stability and confidence.
• Continuously identify and fill test coverage gaps, in both automated and manual areas.
• Analyze and troubleshoot UI test failures and collaborate with developers to drive resolution.
• Stay current with testing tools, trends, and best practices in automation and QA.
• Contribute to load testing the platform.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate script generation and improve test case authoring.

Scrum Master Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies — backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and retrospectives — keeping them purposeful and timeboxed.
• Maintain transparency of the backlog, sprint goal, and Definition of Done, and drive empiricism through inspection and adaptation of Scrum events and metrics.
• Identify and remove impediments quickly, escalating cross-team blockers where needed.
• Coach the Product Owner and Developers to self-manage, collaborate effectively, and continuously improve.
• Coordinate release management activities, including version tracking, release documentation, and regression/UAT sign-off, in partnership with QA and DevOps.
• Manage sprint and release administration in Jira (sprint creation and closure, sub-tasks, release versions, dashboards).
• Drive actionable outcomes from retrospectives, tracking improvement items with clear owners and follow-through.

Shared / Cross-Cutting

• Participate fully in sprint ceremonies: grooming, planning, retrospectives, and daily standups.
• Work with QA, product, and engineering teams across multiple geographies to align priorities and delivery.
• Balance hands-on automation/testing work with Scrum Master facilitation duties across the sprint cycle.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 4 years working in a similar QA/automation role.
• Strong experience with Playwright or comparable UI automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress).
• Hands-on experience with TestRail or other test case management tools.
• Solid understanding of test methodologies (unit, regression, integration, E2E).
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, or a strong willingness to upskill.
• Familiarity with web technologies: HTML, CSS, and DOM/browser behavior.
• Solid experience using Git, working collaboratively in shared codebases (e.g. GitHub).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test integration workflows (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Prior experience as a Scrum Master, or strong working knowledge of Scrum/Agile ceremonies and practices, is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Jira administration for sprint and release management (sprints, versions, dashboards).
• Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum).
• Excellent knowledge of automation testing processes and methodologies.
• Adept at working with cross-functional groups across multiple geographies.
• Ability to deliver results with minimal supervision, and to balance competing priorities between hands-on QA work and Scrum Master facilitation.
• Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Good communication and written skills in English.

RightShip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity, enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. You must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.