Quality Test Engineer III

Quality Test Engineer III

Are you passionate about ensuring high-quality software through robust testing and automation strategies? Do you enjoy identifying defects early and improving systems to deliver seamless, reliable user experiences?

The Search and AI Platform is Elsevier's agentic data platform, which powers products such as Scopus, Science Direct, and our next-generation AI-powered search systems.

The platform uses agentic services to interrogate our rich knowledge graphs, search and recommendation systems, and our unparalleled collection of research data to deliver insights to the scientific community so they can collaborate more effectively, work smarter, and deliver quality research more quickly.

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.

You will work closely with software engineers, quality engineers and technical leads to ensure our search and retrieval services are reliable, scalable, and safe to consume by downstream product teams. You will be able to analyse complex systems, contribute meaningfully to engineering discussions, and take clear ownership of quality outcomes across your areas of the platform.

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for APIs and backend services using Karate, Cucumber with Rest Assured.
• Write clean, maintainable, and reliable 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.

• Good years of 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 Rest Assured.
• 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.

• 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.

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

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