Senior Software Quality Engineer

We are recruiting a Senior Software Quality Engineer for our team in Limerick, Ireland. We are looking for an Engineer to play a lead role in a small team driving our efforts in quality assurance. The right candidate is highly motivated, self-driven, eager to learn, and passionate about taking ownership of their contribution to the product.

We are a highly professional, self-organising team of engineers working in a truly agile environment. Our culture is built on being open to new ideas and feedback and we believe in building great software, technical excellence and having fun.

Responsibilities:

• Writing automation tests suites using Cypress, Playwright or WebdriverIO JavaScript frameworks.
  
• Key responsibility to ensure that all quality checks, risk assessment and processes and procedures have been followed by the teams about all releases to production.
  
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities with our teams to ensure quality and test coverage.
  
• Lead the effort to design, develop and execute automation scripts to achieve the highest possible test coverage for our systems.
  
• Collaborate in an agile environment, actively participating in agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups
  
• Assist teams in developing test plans and cases to ensure accuracy and completeness.
  
• Review user stories requirements, specifications and technical design documents when required
  
• Work with agile teams to identify integration points for new work
  
• Create and maintain dependency documentation for system wide regression
  
• Assist with execution of manual testing when required.
  

Above all we value communication, common sense and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will bring:

• Strong documentation and communication skills.
  
• Willingness to give and take feedback and share knowledge
  
• A strong desire to learn and improve.
  
• The ability to influence QA and test automation best practices within your team
  

From a technical perspective we would require a minimum of 5 years QA experience through the entire lifecycle of an enterprise application. Use of the following technologies and methodologies would be a distinct advantage:

• Proven experience with Cypress, Playwright or WebdriverIO automation framework and automated testing tools
  
• Proven experience with Azure DevOps including Pipelines and load testing
  
• Proven work experience in software development
  
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
  
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
  
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
  
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
  
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
  

Nice to have's;

• Experience with API testing tools such as JMeter, Postman or similar
  
• Experience with Docker
  
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
  
• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
  

• Employer pension contribution*
  
• Private health insurance*
  
• Life insurance*
  
• Long term illness cover*
  
• Company support with Scrum certification fees
  
• Supported Study Leave
  
• Quarterly code hack days
  

*on completion of 6-month probation period