Junior Quality Assurance Engineer

To pursue our mission of “helping clients achieve their greatest potential using the power of technology”, we are looking for a Junior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to help us develop and deliver business critical projects for our customers using agile methodologies.

Reporting into the Quality Assurance Manager, this will be a hands-on software testing role within an agile team working in a highly collaborative manner with our technical leads, developers, business analysts and scrum masters.

As Junior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will primarily be responsible for ensuring the quality of our software. As this will involve close, daily interaction within the context of an agile team, your communication and people skills will need to be superb. If you are passionate about using best-in-class QA engineering practices to ensure high-quality software is delivered to our customers, then you are the right person for this job.

This role will provide a huge learning opportunity for the right candidate and would be an ideal next step for a graduate quality assurance engineer looking to take their career to the next level.

Job Purpose:

This role offers the successful candidate an excellent opportunity to interact with many and varied projects and to advance their career within a successful and expanding bespoke software development organisation.

This role is based in our Limerick office on a Hybrid basis (2 days from office, 3 days from home.

Main Responsibilities:

Interpersonal

• Actively contribute to an agile mindset and a positive working environment within the team.

• Actively participate in the creation of high-quality software within agreed project deadlines.

• Ability to have a positive impact on others and communicate openly and directly to individuals or groups at all levels.

• Actively participate in and contribute to your team’s continuous improvement practices.

• Demonstrate a proactive approach to “getting things done”, accountability & ownership and the ability to prioritise your own workload.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Collaborate effectively with our business analysts, scrum masters and technical leads to assist in the planning, designing, development, testing, and maintenance of our client’s web-based & mobile applications.

• Developing and executing automated test plans.

• Define and plan test cycles and test quality.

• Analyse requirements and review acceptance criteria to ensure they are fit for purpose.

• Translate technical requirements into test plans.

• Create comprehensive and well-defined test scripts that are traceable back to requirements.

• Execution of functional, regression and integration tests across a wide range of Enterprise Systems.

• Liaises with technical team lead and development team to ensure resolution of system defects.

Required Skills

• Degree or Higher Dip in a computing related discipline or equivalent experience.

• Experience (2+years) in testing of Web & Mobile based technologies.

• Experience working with test automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright.

• Experience in coding Languages such as Python, C#.

• Demonstrate a good understanding of Web & Mobile based technologies and usability.

• Ability to adapt quickly when testing different solutions.

• Experience with agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and automated testing in UI and API.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• You will be living within a reasonable commute of Limerick city.

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.

• Willingness to travel, if required.

This job description is a summary of the typical functions of the role, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of possible role responsibilities, tasks and duties is subject to review. The responsibilities, tasks and duties of the job holder might differ from those outlined in the job description and other duties, as assigned, might form part of the job.