Software Test Engineer

Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. 

The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. 

The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. 

The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. 

With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries!

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Automation Test Engineer to carry out the quality assurance stage of software development for our primary sequencing software.

The Details...

As part of our team, the Software Automation Test Engineer will conduct and design automated and manual tests, as per the defined standards and procedures, to ensure the software built by our developers is fit for purpose. You'll find yourself working in cross-functional teams with software developers and project teams to deliver test plans, test cases, automated tests and reports on functional and non-functional requirements in a fast-paced agile environment.

Other responsibilities include:

• Testing software releases by carrying out assigned tests
• Generating and completing test cases based on requirements
• Designing tests to mitigate risk
• Writing bug reports and providing objective feedback to software development teams
• Platform testing to include: desktop, tablet and mobile across Linux, OSX and Windows
• Working towards departmental and project deadlines
• Communicating findings to technical and non-technical colleagues

What We're Looking For...

We'll expect you to have an undergraduate degree or equivalent experience and professional qualifications. You'll also be experienced in automated testing with proven knowledge of testing desktop and/or mobile software.

You have the following experience:

• Programming language such as Python or JavaScript
• Writing automated tests in a framework such as Pytest, Jest, Robot or Behave
• Writing UI tests in a framework such as WebdriverIO, Cypress or any Selenium based framework
• A solid understanding of the software development life-cycle and testing methodologies