The role:
Senior Test Engineers act as amplifiers of product quality and are essential in our industry of health tech. You will have a passion for ensuring quality is baked into everything we do, and will embed processes and tools to enable our software developers to move safely at speed.
Your focus, as a Senior Test Engineer, is that you will be responsible for enabling teams, advising on practice, contributing to the set up of new frameworks, suggesting and using tools, exploring our software, and anything else you can think of to ensure the quality and reliability of our software applications.
You will work closely with the development teams and other testers to identify and prioritise your work, and you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing processes, test automation suites, and the enabling of testing across the company through a blend of education, tooling and direct contribution.
You will have a balance between broad exploratory testing, procedural testing, and improving our processes so that we are able to reliably automate and improve flow for the most common pathways. You will set standards for testing that will raise the bar for all.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the testing process by identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency gains.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using industry-standard tools and frameworks.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to understand the architecture and design of the software under test.
- Contribute to the development of test practices and strategies for both manual and automated testing.
- Contribute to the maintenance of test cases used for regulatory evidence. Create systems and approaches to support generating the evidence of testing across our product landscape.
- Ensure that our regulatory and compliance load is understood, and suggest approaches to minimise the burden.
- Execute manual test scripts from time to time to support the regulatory burden of your teams. Research and advocate for better alternatives.
- Balance the needs of ‘moving fast’ with ‘embedding quality’ and strike a happy path that enables others to work with low friction
- Ability to identify risks and issues. Evaluate, advise and influence on best solutions and approach on projects while taking into account the context and constraints.
- Improve how we test, and help make it a part of the happy path for delivery while not creating bottlenecks and undue process.
- Stay up-to-date with industry good practices and emerging trends in testing and ensure we’re using the right tools to ensure quality across our delivery.
- Educate and up-skill those around you, especially engineers, to create a quality first mindset.
About you:
- You have excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- You have experience with git and continuous integration tools (e.g. GitHub Actions).
- You identify as an engineer or technologist - you’ve got a rough working model of how the internet works, or understand the fundamental technological differences between Android and iOS, or totally grok application authentication, for example.
- You love to see teams deliver quickly, knowing that you have contributed to the quality embedded within the product, and you have been an integral part in its delivery
- You thrive on working with engineers and product teams to ensure we’re testing effectively.
- You have the ability to advocate for, recommend and clearly explain pros and cons of different approaches, tools and technology in context of the project or product.
- You know how to help teams and individuals determine what is good enough for now and safe enough to try
- You have experience in test automation using popular tools and frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Maestro, TestCafe etc.).
- You enjoy creating automation for some of your role, so that you can focus your time in on the exploratory and novel
Nice to have
- Experience of the regulatory and compliance space for health tech
- Experience in a fast-paced rapidly scaling startup or scale up would be valuable
- Experience of lead tester role on projects: able to lead all testing ceremonies and presentations
- Highly collaborative approach within projects and teams
- Excellent communication skills and have experience coaching developers, or coaching clients through UAT (e.g. tailors and adapts detail and approach appropriately to audiences)
Don’t worry if you don’t have all of these, we value diverse skill sets, and recognise that no one candidate will match all of these - we’d love to hear from you if this role seems like an interesting opportunity for you.
