Quality Test Engineer III

Job title: Quality Test Engineer III

About the Role We are looking for a Quality Engineer to join the Search and AI Platform team. This is a hands-on, automation-first role focused on API and service-level testing, with quality embedded throughout the development lifecycle rather than validated at the end.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for APIs and backend services using Karate, Cucumber with RestAssured.
• Write clean, maintainable automated tests in Java that provide fast, accurate feedback to the team.
• Validate functional and non-functional behaviour of search and retrieval services, including error handling, reliability, and service interactions.
• Contribute to contract testing and service-level testing strategies across our REST and evolving GraphQL APIs.
• Integrate and maintain automated tests within CI/CD pipelines, supporting testing at multiple levels of the stack.
• Use observability tooling such as New Relic and logging to support diagnosis, monitoring, and quality analysis.
• Technically analyse problems and proposed solutions, recognising the right level of detail and abstraction to contribute to and lead engineering discussions.
• Contribute to incident reviews and post-mortems, improving test coverage to prevent repeat issues.
• Work with engineers early in the development process to shape acceptance criteria, surface edge cases, and improve overall testability.

What We're Looking For

• Quality engineer with hands-on automation experience who thrives working closely with software engineers. You see testing as an engineering discipline and take pride in building quality in from the start.
• Collaborative, take ownership of your work, and are comfortable contributing to technical discussions.
• Significant experience in software testing or quality engineering.
• Strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing, data formats, and service interactions.
• Strong coding and scripting ability in Java.
• Hands-on experience with Karate, Cucumber with RestAssured.
• Good exposure to CI/CD pipelines, supporting the integration of testing at various levels of the stack.
• Exposure to observability tooling such as New Relic or logging.
• The ability to technically analyse a problem and a solution, recognising the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions.
• Willingness to take ownership of assigned areas and continuously improve quality outcomes.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Nice to Have

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

Compensation & Benefits

• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care Leave
• Personal Choice budget
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Employee Assistance Program (global)
• Working flexible hours to fit your schedule and help you be productive
• Study assistance and sabbaticals