About Epos Now
Cloud POS and embedded finance platform used by 77,000+ businesses. Fintech-first, ownership culture, scaling payments/data/AI.
Role purpose
Lead sustainable test automation and quality enablement across squads. Focus on framework health, flakiness reduction, faster feedback, and reliable CI/CD—not feature-only testing.
Key responsibilities
- Own and evolve UI/API/integration automation frameworks.
- Reduce flakiness; speed up and stabilise GitLab CI pipelines.
- Define and champion automation standards and code reviews.
- Balance test pyramid; improve regression efficiency and feedback loops.
- Add quality gates to CI/CD; partner with engineers to shift-left.
- Instrument quality signals; contribute to safe releases (flags/canaries/rollbacks).
- Coach engineers/QAs; run workshops.
Tech environment
- Stack: Golang, C#, React (TypeScript)
- Platform: AWS, Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform
- CI/CD: GitLab CI
- Tooling: Playwright/Cypress, REST/contract tests (Pact), k6, OTel/Prometheus/Grafana, Sentry.
Minimum qualifications
- 4+ years in QA automation or SWE with strong CI/CD automation.
- Built/maintained UI and API frameworks (TS/JS, C#, or Go).
- Proven flake reduction and pipeline reliability improvements.
- Solid testing strategy (risk-based, pyramid/trophy).
- Docker, basic AWS, and strong collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Fintech/POS experience, Pact, k6, Terraform/K8s, security/PCI awareness, test analytics dashboards.
KPIs (6–12 months)
- e2e flake rate <1%; CI pass rate ≥99%; faster pipelines.
- Shorter regressions via better pyramid and risk-based selection.
- Increased automated coverage on critical paths; fewer escaped defects.
- Standards adopted by 2+ squads.
Top Skills
What We Do
Epos Now is a global payments and cloud-based software provider, focused on small and medium businesses in the retail, hospitality and personal care sectors. We specialise in the design and manufacture of electronic points of sale (commonly referred to as EPOS) as well as an integrated payments solution.
Founded in 2011 by our Chief Executive, Jacyn Heavens, Epos Now is currently available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Mexico.
Creators of the UK's first POS AppStore and winners of the prestigious Queen's Award for Innovation, we set the bar for POS excellence. Other accolades include the UK Business & Innovation Awards, International Business Award, Customer Experience Award, FT 1000 46th Fastest growing company in Europe and the two time winner of the Sunday Times Tech Track.
