QA Engineer

Role Overview

The Test Engineers primary role is to help improve the quality of Dotmatics solutions by creating test plans, maintaining automation and manual test suites, testing and documenting/reviewing test results. In this role you will work with developers, product managers and application scientists to identify, reproduce, report and test bugs and fixes. This role has a focus on automation testing but will also involve various aspects of manual testing.

A background in science (chemistry, biology, or related field) is highly advantageous, as it will help you understand the workflows and real-world use cases of our customers.

Responsibilities

• Work with the team on individual project(s) to ensure that new features have associated automated tests.

• Maintain regression automated test suites.

• Maintain and continuously improves code quality and development processes of automated testing.

• Performs regression, retest and exploratory tests.

• Follows manual test plans and raises detailed bug reports, including comprehensive reproduction steps.

• Able to work independently.

• Proactive in improving testing processes and identifying gaps in test plans.

• Ensure manual test plans have associated automation tests where applicable.

• Ensure that development of features is done in a way that supports the automation strategy, identifying opportunities for enhancing the code to allow better hooks into the product.

• Investigating any automated test failures and escalating to developers/product experts/other QA Engineers and analysts.

Qualifications

• At least 2-5 years experience in QA

• 2+ years experience in automated testing, in order of preference Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright

• Experience in test planning and analysis

• Experience with programming language Python (desirable)

• Understand the fundamentals of Docker

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

• Experience working different operating systems and web browsers

• Experience with SQL databases

• Attention to detail and methodical nature

• Able to communicate effectively and clearly in person and written form with other QA team members, developers, and application scientists

• Dotmatics Domain knowledge
  

Preferred/Bonus

• Experience using Jmeter for Performance Testing

• Background in a scientific discipline (chemistry, biology, life sciences, informatics).
  

• Experience testing SaaS or complex web applications.
  

• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Zephyr Scale, or similar test management/bug tracking systems.
  

• Hands-on experience with backend validation, including API testing and database checks.

• Experience calling APIs with tools like Postman/Bruno