Software Test Engineer

Key responsibilities

• Lead Back End testing across complex services and integrated systems.
• Work with Perl and Java developers to test and debug software changes.
• Read and understand code to support testing, investigation and code reviews.
• Lead testing discussions during refinement, development and release planning.
• Champion early and continuous testing throughout the Agile lifecycle.
• Challenge developers constructively on test coverage, assumptions and release readiness.
• Improve the testability, observability and controllability of Back End services.
• Validate changes across Back End services, Kafka events and MySQL data.
• Improve test evidence, defect management and risk-assessment processes.
• Identify opportunities for test automation, contract testing and AI-assisted testing.

Key requirements

• Strong experience as a Senior Test Engineer, with a focus on Back End systems.
• Comfortable reading code and working with developers during testing, debugging and code reviews.
• Experience testing applications developed in Java, Perl or similar Back End languages.
• Strong knowledge of Agile processes and continuous testing.
• Excellent understanding of software testability.
• Confidence leading testing discussions with developers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfortable challenging developers and engineering teams constructively.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Experience improving testing processes, test evidence and defect management.

Desirable experience

• Test automation within CI/CD pipelines.
• Contract, API or service-level testing.
• Kafka, MySQL and event-driven systems.
• Kubernetes or other modern platform technologies.
• Non-functional testing, including reliability and performance.
• Using AI tools to support or accelerate testing.