About Us:
Working in technology at Elsevier means your work truly matters — it changes lives. You’ll see the real-world impact of your day-to-day efforts. Our technologists have applied machine learning to reduce gender bias in academia and developed tools to help medical professionals diagnose conditions more accurately. Whether you're supporting business efficiency, building infrastructure, or creating products for our customers, you’ll be solving meaningful challenges every day.
About the Team:
Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. For more than 140 years, we’ve helped impact makers advance science and healthcare — and that same mission drives us today.
If you’re looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation, and health — and allows you to grow every day — join us. Let’s shape progress together.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a skilled and detail-oriented QA Test Engineer who thrives in inclusive, collaborative environments and is passionate about building and executing performance and automation tests. You’ll work across teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products and data solutions. Your contributions will help shape testing strategies, improve processes, and mentor others in best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute automated and performance testing for assigned projects.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations to plan testing and ensure product quality.
- Maintain flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and business needs.
- Work with QA/Testing staff, technical leads, and subject matter experts to plan and execute tests.
- Report issues and results, research root causes, and document findings.
- Ensure testing aligns with agreed requirements and quality standards.
- Research and implement tools that enhance testing capabilities and product quality.
- Identify opportunities to apply automation and other tools to meet testing needs.
- Investigate root causes of performance issues in collaboration with architects, developers, and system engineers.
- Conduct project reviews and implement quality control procedures.
- Enhance methodologies for test planning, defect tracking, and reporting.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and best practice implementation.
- Maintain documentation for internal and external IT audits.
- Collaborate across teams to improve QA/testing processes.
- Identify areas for improvement and implement initiatives to enhance efficiency.
- Ensure root cause analysis results are addressed.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of QA Test Engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies and software development processes.
- Hands-on experience with Cypress and JavaScript.
- Solid understanding of API testing (REST).
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and sprint-based development.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to develop and execute automated and performance testing.
- Solid QA testing skills and attention to detail.
- Strong project management and research skills.
- Knowledge of process improvement and industry trends.
- Understanding of budgets and cost-effective testing practices.
- Familiarity with continuous improvement practices.
Work in a Way That Works for You:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we support both your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.
This is a hybrid role. Our teams operate in a flexible hybrid work model, combining in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. You’ll participate in regular team meetings and engineering rituals in line with your team’s cadence.
Working for You:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Private Medical/Dental Plan
- Savings Fund
- Life Insurance
- Meal/Grocery Voucher
About the Business:
A global leader in information and analytics, Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, and exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress
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