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Senior Software Quality and Test Engineer

📍 United Kingdom 🌐 Fully RemoteFull Time
POSTED April 2, 2025

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Tech Stack: Git GitHub

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

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  • Design and develop comprehensive test plans and test cases ensuring robust test coverage and high-quality software
  • Collaborate with product managers and developers to understand requirements and ensure comprehensive test coverage
  • Organize/categorize tests to streamline testing processes
  • Update and maintain test documentation ensuring ongoing validity of test suite
  • Perform functional, regression, and integration testing
  • Identify, document, and track software defects, working collaboratively with developers to resolve issues
  • Document test results and test reports
  • Support product release testing

Design and develop comprehensive test plans and test cases ensuring robust test coverage and high-quality software

Collaborate with product managers and developers to understand requirements and ensure comprehensive test coverage

Organize/categorize tests to streamline testing processes

Update and maintain test documentation ensuring ongoing validity of test suite

Perform functional, regression, and integration testing

Identify, document, and track software defects, working collaboratively with developers to resolve issues

Document test results and test reports

Support product release testing

  • Contribute to development and implementation of automated test framework, including development of a sustainable workflow for continued growth, maintenance, and improvement of test automation.
  • Develop and maintain automated test scripts and associated documentation
  • Critically evaluate manual tests for automated candidacy

Contribute to development and implementation of automated test framework, including development of a sustainable workflow for continued growth, maintenance, and improvement of test automation.

Develop and maintain automated test scripts and associated documentation

Critically evaluate manual tests for automated candidacy

  • Contribute to reporting of quality metrics, test results, and status
  • Collaborate effectively with product, development, and other stakeholders
  • Advocate for user experience and quality in software products
  • Collaborate with team of subject matter expert manual test team

Contribute to reporting of quality metrics, test results, and status

Collaborate effectively with product, development, and other stakeholders

Advocate for user experience and quality in software products

Collaborate with team of subject matter expert manual test team

  • Contribute to continuous improvement of the software development lifecycle by staying updated on latest trends, tools, and methodologies in support of QC tasks for development of AI integrated software.
  • Mentorship of more junior colleagues.

Contribute to continuous improvement of the software development lifecycle by staying updated on latest trends, tools, and methodologies in support of QC tasks for development of AI integrated software.

Mentorship of more junior colleagues.

Education:

  • Education to degree level in engineering, computer science, or other relevantqualification/experience.

qualification/experience.

Skills:

  • Practical understanding of Agile SDLC and QA methodologies
  • Proficiency in test case design and execution
  • Proficiency in manual test and automation
  • Software quality metrics and reporting
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
  • Internally motivated and accountable
  • Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

Practical understanding of Agile SDLC and QA methodologies

Proficiency in test case design and execution

Proficiency in manual test and automation

Software quality metrics and reporting

Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Internally motivated and accountable

Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

Knowledge and Experience :

  • Previous Senior Software Testing experience required operating as a Software Tester, Validation Engineer or Quality Assurance Engineer.
  • Experienced in developing and executing regression test plans, creating and maintaining test cases for new features, and ensuring the ongoing validity of existing test suites.
  • Committed to continuously improving testing processes and frameworks, proactively addressing flaky or broken tests and optimizing test coverage.
  • Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
  • Experience using Confluence and Jira.
  • Experience with both automated and manual testing techniques
  • Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools (Github Actions)
  • Hands-on experience with current automated test tools and methodologies
  • Experience with automated evaluation frameworks for AI integrated components a plus.

Previous Senior Software Testing experience required operating as a Software Tester, Validation Engineer or Quality Assurance Engineer.

Experienced in developing and executing regression test plans, creating and maintaining test cases for new features, and ensuring the ongoing validity of existing test suites.

Committed to continuously improving testing processes and frameworks, proactively addressing flaky or broken tests and optimizing test coverage.

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.

Experience using Confluence and Jira.

Experience with both automated and manual testing techniques

Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools (Github Actions)

Hands-on experience with current automated test tools and methodologies

Experience with automated evaluation frameworks for AI integrated components a plus.

In return we will be able to offer you a structured career pathway and encouragement to develop within the role including awareness and understanding of the industry. You will be well supported and for your hard work you will be rewarded with a competitive base salary and a benefits package including holiday, private healthcare, dental insurance as well as other benefits that you would expect with a top company in the CRO Industry.

Apply today to begin your Parexel journey!

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