Software Test Engineer

Join our mission-focused team as a Software Test Engineer. In this role, you will ensure product stability across every release, advocate for testing best practices, and collaborate closely with various stakeholders. You will have the opportunity to roll out and maintain automated test solutions, analyze quality metrics, and communicate complex technical bugs to non-technical stakeholders. This position offers flexible work models, paid time off, health care benefits, and various learning and development opportunities.

Quality Advocacy to maintain strict quality standards during release cycles, provide constructive feedback without damaging relationships, and advocate for quality standards

If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with technical project managers, front-line stakeholders, core software developers, and deployment teams to refine requirements, analyze quality trends, and advocate for testing best practices.
• Write, maintain, and execute comprehensive test cases for regular software releases, and advocate for testing best practices across delivery teams.
• Analyze quality metrics and defect trends to implement proactive solutions that improve overall product delivery, and communicate complex technical bugs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• We are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented, and proactive Test Engineer local to Glasgow (or within a reasonable traveling distance) to join our mission-focused team
• Analytical Mindset to review manual processes and evaluate how to script, streamline, or automate workflows
• Technical Communication to explain technical bugs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and liaise with core software development teams
• Requirements Refinement to evaluate technical documentation, provide accurate time estimates, and collaborate with technical teams
• Commercial Testing Expertise to perform systematic test execution, test case creation, and quality tracking across mission-critical software solutions
• Workload Prioritisation to assess competing tasks continuously and prioritize critical testing activities effectively
• Field Verification to attend customer sites periodically and witness live operational software usage

Requirements

• 3 years UK residency required for security check clearance
• Commercial software testing experience
• Formal qualification (Degree) in Computing Science
• Interest in learning or experience with automated test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Appium, Cypress)
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies
• ISTQB certification

Experience with Java or another Object-Oriented programming language

• Knowledge of source code management technologies (e.g., Git, SubVersion)
• Knowledge of software development and issue tracking systems (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub)
• Experience with Android smartphone testing
• Experience with XML and XSLT