G19 - Software Quality Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Quality Engineer to ensure software reliability, test automation, and continuous quality improvement across the software development lifecycle.

The role requires strong analytical skills, hands-on test automation experience, and close collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams to implement effective testing strategies.

The successful candidate will work in an Agile and DevOps-driven environment, focusing on fast feedback loops, risk-based testing, automation, and high software quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts to define clear and testable user story acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with Software Engineers to improve automated test coverage and prevent defects from reaching production.
• Analyse complex software systems and develop comprehensive, risk-based testing strategies.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools.
• Design and execute test suites covering functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and performance testing.
• Apply a risk-based approach to test automation, prioritising critical business functions and high-impact areas.
• Conduct time-boxed exploratory testing to identify edge cases, usability issues, and potential defects.
• Maintain stable regression test suites integrated with nightly QA builds.
• Continuously improve smoke tests within CI/CD environments to support early defect detection.
• Lead system integration testing with relevant system owners to validate cross-system functionality and interactions.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders to ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are met.
• Manage the defect lifecycle, test artefacts, test results, and repositories to ensure effective tracking and reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement of Agile testing practices, tools, processes, and methodologies.
• Support application performance engineering or application security testing as a secondary area of responsibility.

Experience & Skills

Core Testing Expertise

• Strong knowledge of test automation strategies and risk-based testing.
• Experience designing and executing test cases, test plans, and comprehensive test suites.
• Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing across web, mobile, and API-based applications.
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform, and responsive UI testing.

Test Automation & CI/CD

• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, Cypress, SikuliX, or EggPlant.
• Proficiency in test scripting or automation programming using Python, Java, JavaScript, or C#.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo, or similar tools.
• Ability to design maintainable, scalable, and reusable test automation frameworks and suites.

Agile & DevOps Testing

• Strong understanding of Agile testing methodologies, including TDD, BDD, and exploratory testing.
• Experience working in Agile environments such as Scrum, Kanban, or XP.
• Familiarity with shift-left testing practices and early defect detection.
• Experience testing applications deployed in Docker and Kubernetes environments.

Security & Performance Testing

• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, k6, or Locust is an advantage.
• Knowledge of application security testing using tools such as OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, SAST, or DAST is an advantage.
• Experience with API security testing and authentication mechanisms such as OAuth and JWT is an advantage.

Test Management & Qualifications

• Experience managing defects and test repositories using tools such as JIRA, TestRail, or Micro Focus ALM.
• Certified Software Testing Professional (CSTP), Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), or equivalent certification is an advantage.
• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.