Quality Test Engineer III

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated API and backend-service test suites using Karate and Cucumber with RestAssured.
• Write reliable, maintainable Java tests that provide fast and accurate feedback.
• Validate functional and non-functional behaviour, including error handling, reliability, and service interactions.
• Contribute to contract and service-level testing strategies for REST and evolving GraphQL APIs.
• Integrate and maintain automated tests in CI/CD pipelines at multiple stack levels.
• Use New Relic and logging for diagnosis, monitoring, and quality analysis.
• Analyse technical problems and solutions and contribute to engineering discussions.
• Contribute to incident reviews and post-mortems and improve coverage to prevent repeat issues.
• Shape acceptance criteria, identify edge cases, and improve testability early in development.

Required qualifications

• Solid hands-on automation experience in software testing or quality engineering.
• Strong API testing or contract testing experience, including data formats and service interactions.
• Strong Java coding and scripting ability.
• Hands-on experience with Karate and Cucumber with RestAssured.
• Experience supporting testing integration in CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to analyse problems and solutions at the appropriate level of detail and abstraction.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned areas and continuously improve quality outcomes.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Performance testing experience.
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs and service-level or contract testing approaches.
• Experience testing shared services or internal platforms.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, including EKS.
• Interest in search, AI, or data-oriented systems.

About Elsevier

Benefits and flexibility

• The company describes flexible working hours, wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
• Benefits include a pension plan, vacation entitlement, family care leave, a personal choice budget, employee discounts, and an employee assistance program.