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- Eligibility
- Candidates with experience as a QA Engineer, Test Engineer, or SDET in agile environments, and those who can work onsite in Greater Dublin, may apply. Background in financial services, payments, platform migrations, or performance testing is advantageous but not mandatory.
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Job description
Role overview
SearchWorks is hiring a Senior QA Engineer for a 12-month contract in Greater Dublin. This position sits inside a cross-functional team and focuses on setting the standard for quality across the product lifecycle. You’ll work as a practical, hands-on engineer who writes automation, shapes testing strategy, contributes to requirements discussions, and helps ensure systems perform correctly in a modern event-driven environment.
Key responsibilities
- Take ownership of quality from the earliest stages by reviewing and improving acceptance criteria before development starts.
- Create and maintain automated tests that are built into CI/CD delivery flows.
- Partner closely with the product owner to understand the domain well enough to spot likely failure points ahead of time.
- Develop parity testing between legacy and modern platforms to confirm migration and transformation accuracy.
- Keep automated test suites efficient, targeted, and high value, prioritising confidence over sheer test volume.
- Support quality reporting and metrics, bringing risks to light as early as possible.
- Work with engineers to strengthen test coverage through collaboration, feedback, and review.
Required experience and skills
- Background as a QA Engineer, Test Engineer, or SDET working in agile teams.
- Practical ability to write test automation code rather than only execute test cases.
- Experience testing microservices or event-driven systems.
- Working knowledge of Kafka or comparable streaming technologies.
- Good understanding of CI/CD and how automated tests fit into delivery pipelines.
- Strong analytical capability with data models, APIs, and event schemas.
- Ability to use SQL for validation and reconciliation of data.
- Comfort working in containerised environments such as Docker.
- Familiarity with modern testing tools such as Testcontainers, JUnit, and REST Assured, or equivalent tools.
Preferred background
- Experience in financial services or payments.
- Exposure to platform migration projects or validation of legacy systems.
- Some involvement in performance or load testing.
Additional information
This is a 12-month contract role based onsite in Greater Dublin. The role centres on improving quality engineering practices within a modern, scalable architecture.