Software Engineer II (R-20067)

About the role

Responsibilities

• Partner with development and product teams to ensure product quality in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Create and maintain test strategies, test plans, test cases, test data and traceability for new features and defect fixes
• Write and maintain automated tests for data-validation workflows
• Integrate and maintain automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing, quality gates and release validation throughout the software delivery lifecycle
• Perform manual functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing when automation is not suitable
• Validate multi-tiered, data-driven applications processing large volumes of records
• Define and track quality metrics including defect counts, severity, test execution, coverage and release status
• Identify, document, report, track and verify issues through to resolution
• Perform root-cause analysis and collaborate on preventive quality improvements
• Support product deployments, release validation and QA sign-off
• Partner with support teams to reproduce and troubleshoot customer-reported issues
• Proactively improve quality through collaboration, automation, process improvement and innovative thinking
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, tools, and best practices

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Typically 5-8 years of relevant experience, including 5+ years in software quality assurance or quality engineering
• Experience designing and executing functional, integration, system, regression and UAT testing
• Understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, quality gates, automated test reporting and release validation processes
• Strong defect management, root-cause analysis and troubleshooting skills
• Experience in manual testing across web, API, database and enterprise applications
• Experience in test automation using Playwright, Selenium, Robot Framework or similar tools
• Experience integrating automated test frameworks into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD or similar platforms
• Experience with JIRA, Zephyr, Azure DevOps or similar test management tools
• Proficiency in Java, Python or C# for test automation and scripting
• Experience in SQL and database validation, including complex queries and joins
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Knowledge of API testing using Postman, REST Assured or equivalent tools
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude to support test case generation, test automation, defect analysis, requirements reviews, CI/CD pipeline optimisation, and overall QA productivity improvements.
• Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication, cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills