• You’ll build and maintain reliable automation that interacts with real-world web portals and third-party systems—where correctness, traceability, and security matter as much as speed • Own the design, development, and operation of web-portal automation workflows using Playwright (and related tooling) • Build automation services primarily in Python , with strong supporting development in TypeScript • Implement evaluation/validation (“evals”) to measure automation accuracy, catch regressions, and improve reliability over time • Maintain strong audit-trail discipline : deterministic logging, event traces, artifacts, and reproducible runs for debugging and compliance needs • Design automation with a security-first mindset , following best practices for handling sensitive workflows and data • Collaborate with engineering/product stakeholders to translate ambiguous real-world processes into pragmatic, shippable automation • Improve robustness against common automation challenges (dynamic UIs, flaky states, rate limits, auth flows, partial failures) while keeping systems maintainable

• Hunt down high-leverage processes. Talk to people across the company, find the manual, repetitive, error-prone work, and rank it by what's genuinely worth automating. • Pull a workflow out of someone's head and specify it. Most of the job is turning a vague "this is just how we do it" into something precise enough to automate. • Build the automation. Python and API glue, MCP servers and clients, Claude Skills, agent workflows, and small services where they're needed. • Instrument what you ship so it doesn't rot silently. Logs, alerts when something breaks, and a way to know whether the automation is still doing its job. • Drive adoption. Get non-technical teams to trust and use what you've built, train them, and stay close after launch so it sticks. • Know when to escalate. When an automation needs to become real platform, hand it to the backend team instead of bolting on. Knowing where that line sits is part of the job.

Title: Embedded QA Engineer Job Description: Embedded QA Engineer Location: High Wycombe /Hybrid Term: Permanent, Full Time Salary: £30k - 45k pa depending on experience + excellent benefits Are you an Embedded QA Engineer looking to join an innovative team with a passion for creating audio products in applications including live music performance, studio recording and education? The Role: You will be responsible for delivering intuitive and scalable testing solutions that support the development of our audio interfaces, synthesisers and controllers. Working within a project team, you will take ownership of QA activities within the team combining both manual and automated testing. This will include design test strategy and writing both manual and automated test scripts. Project work is typically managed in a combination of stage-gated and agile methodologies to suite the technical discipline and project complexity. Focusrite is committed to improving and you will have opportunity to help evolve our working practices to keep up to date with technology trends in our product sector and best practice in the software development industry. To be successful in your application for this role you will need: - Familiar with test approaches for hardware, embedded software, and device drivers - Experience creating test plans, test strategies and writing test cases - Python coding experience - An understanding of automation best practice and architectural principles - Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving abilities - The ability to clearly articulate problems and solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences - A commitment to continual personal development, as well as improvement of the wider team It would be advantageous if you have some of the following: - A technical or engineering-based qualification - Experience with testing audio products - Experience writing automation frameworks for hardware and embedded software - CI/CD configuration, implementation and maintenance experience (GitHub Actions, Artifactory) - Test driven development (TDD); unit, integration, automated and system testing experience - Understanding of code managements systems - Experience of working using Agile methodologies such as Scrum - Background in audio electronics and music technology  About Us Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’. The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry. Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’. The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future. Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

• Deploy and assist with the rollout of new hardware into our Data Center • Develop automated installation of OS and infrastructure services utilising tools such as Ansible to ensure fleet-wide consistency of systems. Also through using CI/CD pipelines and related tools (e.g. GitLab CI/CD) • Collaborate with the team to resolve hardware, network, and infrastructure issues promptly, minimising downtime and service disruptions • Collaborate with the Middleware team to support OpenStack services and Ceph on our solution • Document and report on infrastructure changes, configurations, and troubleshooting steps