Manual User Tester

At Dotmatics, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive.

Our Portfolio includes Luma, Luma Lab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, Snap Gene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, Lab Archives, NQuery, Easy Panel, MStar, Soft Genetics and Virscidian.

We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.

We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.

Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.

Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics

Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.

You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform.

We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.

We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together

As a Manual Exploratory Tester (User Testing), you will play a critical role in validating the quality of our Luma platform. You will focus on exploratory/user testing—investigating new features, workflows, and edge cases to uncover unexpected behaviours and usability issues. You’ll work closely with developers, product owners, and automation engineers to ensure defects are caught early, well-documented, and resolved quickly.

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

• Conduct exploratory and manual testing (UAT) across web-based applications within the Luma platform.
• Develop tests/exploratory test guides to ensure business requirements are met and provide detailed feedback to design/product.
• Validate new features, integrations, and workflows, ensuring functionality aligns with product requirements and user expectations.
• Perform backend validation of APIs, services, and database interactions to ensure data integrity and system reliability.
• Use tools like Postman/Bruno for RESTful API testing and validate Graph
  
  QL queries/mutations against backend services.
• Log clear, reproducible bug reports and collaborate with developers for quick resolution.
• Provide critical feedback on usability, workflow efficiency, and overall user experience.
• Collaborate with automation engineers to identify areas suitable for automated coverage and review assertions.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release readiness activities.
• Advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

We are looking for people who have an education in, or significant work experience in Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences or similar scientific field and can demonstrate experience as a User Tester, Scientific Application administrator/owner, Software Tester, QA Analyst/User Testing, with a strong focus on exploratory testing

• Education or working experience in a Scientific environment using scientific software (being at an admin level is ideal)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with curiosity to probe beyond obvious test cases
• Excellent attention to…