Software Engineer in Test

Bright Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Bright is a cutting‑edge software company that builds accounting, payroll, tax, and practice management solutions. We are looking for a Software Engineer in Test to join our small, high‑impact team in Belfast.

• Develop and maintain automated tests and frameworks to ensure comprehensive test coverage of our web apps and APIs.
• Execute automated tests and analyse results to identify defects and ensure product quality.
• Contribute to manual testing where appropriate.
• Collaborate with product and development teams to understand how features should be tested.
• Identify, document, and track software defects using bug‑tracking tools.
• Work with the development and AI platform teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues promptly.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and best practices in software testing and quality assurance.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and contribute to the enhancement of testing practices, testability, tools, code health and maintainability in collaboration with the wider quality community.
• Foster a collaborative environment by working closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure high‑quality software delivery.
• Automate performance and stress testing of the team’s applications.

• Experience in software testing or software development with a focus on quality assurance.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, Java, C#, Python, Go).
• Hands‑on experience automating tests with modern testing tools and frameworks, such as Cypress or Playwright, and Postman/Newman.
• Self‑driven and eager to grow in test automation.
• Experience working in a fast‑moving agile environment.
• Familiarity with continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools.

• Experience automating performance and load tests using tools like K6, JMeter, or Gatling.
• Experience testing software built for the cloud.
• Experience testing AI‑driven software where results are often probabilistic.
• Experience configuring tests to run in CI/CD pipelines.

• Learning mindset: excited to learn new frameworks, tools and practices, particularly in AI.
• Systems thinking: understand distributed systems and reason about failure modes.
• Pragmatic approach: balance perfect solutions with shipping value quickly.
• Collaboration:
  
  work well with both technical and product stakeholders.
• Ownership: take responsibility for work from development through to production.

• Competitive salary
• Performance‑based bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• Health insurance
• Company pension
• Company events
• Free food onsite
• On‑site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Wellness programmes