Senior QA Engineer - Software Engineering

Description

The company makes technology that helps other companies connect, protect, analyse and act on their data and applications, from the edge to the cloud.

This senior QA role sits in the engineering function at job level TCP04 and is based in Ireland.

At this level you apply advanced technical knowledge to hard problems and help improve QA processes, methods and automation. You work on complex assignments with little supervision and may guide other team members technically.

Responsibilities

• Own quality for your assigned features, from requirements and design through to implementation and release.
• Review product requirements and technical designs to find test scenarios, risks, dependencies and edge cases.
• Set the test strategy, then write detailed test plans and cases for complex features.
• Test by hand across functional, integration, regression, negative and end-to-end scenarios.
• Build and maintain automated tests that widen coverage and make testing faster.
• Add automated tests to Continuous Integration pipelines and review what they report.
• Track test failures and defects to their root cause and work with developers on fixes.
• Read logs, test results, system behaviour and configurations to troubleshoot problems that span several components.
• Run regression tests and judge how a change will affect the wider system.
• Work with software engineers, product managers and other QA engineers throughout the lifecycle.
• Spot quality risks early and communicate issues, dependencies and release risks clearly.
• Test in complex cloud, virtualisation, distributed and containerised environments.
• Use AI-based tools to improve test design, automation, analysis, troubleshooting and day-to-day QA efficiency.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a closely related quantitative field.
• Typically 5+ years of experience.
• Experience with functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Golang or JavaScript.
• Ability to evaluate test processes and methods, write and run test plans, debug, and write test scripts and tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining product architectures and design proposals to senior management.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing and software quality engineering.
• Advantageous: experience with cloud environments such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• Advantageous: experience with virtualisation technologies, including VMware.
• Advantageous: experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Advantageous: experience with REST APIs.
• Advantageous: experience with storage and networking.
• Advantageous: experience with accessibility.

Conditions

This is a hybrid role, with an average of 2 days per week in a company office.

The job is based in Ireland.

The company is an equal opportunity employer that decides on qualifications, merit and business need, and follows the law on criminal records.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits covering physical, financial and emotional health.
• Career development programmes, whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or move into another division.
• Flexibility to manage your work and personal needs.