Junior QA Engineer
Full TimeJob Overview
Why LBR?
An amazing market position, enviable growth, collaboration and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to further your career with Law Business Research. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, agility, and respect in everything we do.
Law Business Research has been selected as a winner for the 2024 Inspiring Workplaces Awards. We’re proud of our inclusive and inspiring culture here at LBR and we remain committed to creating a positive workplace for all our employees
We are happy to share that we have partnered with Business Disability Forum to help us on our journey to becoming a more inclusive employer and achieving Level 2 Disability Confident Accreditation.
Law Business Research has been selected as a winner for the 2024 Inspiring Workplaces Awards. We’re proud of our inclusive and inspiring culture here at LBR and we remain committed to creating a positive workplace for all our employees
We are happy to share that we have partnered with Business Disability Forum to help us on our journey to becoming a more inclusive employer and achieving Level 2 Disability Confident Accreditation.
We also take our place in this world of ours very seriously and engage in a wide variety of charitable and community based initiatives. We work extensively with Swawou School in Sierra Leone, which we established to provide education for 120 girls, and on an ongoing basis we underwrite the school’s costs.
‘We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, gender identity/expression or reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.’
Role purpose
As a QA Engineer at LBR, your primary responsibility is to build, maintain and run automated tests with the aim of preventing defects entering the production environment.
You will also help improve the quality of work delivered by the software development teams (in both the UK and US) by using both automated and manual testing techniques, measuring success against the original requirements agreed with the product development teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Work alongside the QA, Development and Product teams to test and ensure the successful delivery of the software development roadmap to constantly improve customer facing products.
- Maintain existing automated regression tests across all our projects.
- Develop new browser and API automation tests in accordance with business objectives and specifications.
- Execute tests for regression runs and report the results back to the Dev, Product and QA leads.
- Where required, execution of manual tests in order to deliver the acceptance criteria.
- Work to industry best practices, patterns, toolsets, and standards around automated and manual testing.
- Promote early test practices and continuous integration processes to enable the QA team to deliver faster through automation.
- Work within the company’s processes and support company initiatives.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- At least two years of experience in a test automation role and/or ISEB softaware testing certifications.
- Understand the principles of ensuring the reliability and correctness of software that meets business needs.
- Self-motivated and driven.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Good self-organisational skills.
- Experience of working within an Agile software development environment.
- Strong IT knowledge and ability to solve complex technical problems.
- Good business and process analysis skills.
- Knowledge of best practice testing principles.
- Ability to prioritise work and to escalate where necessary.
- Capable of developing good relationships with product managers and stakeholders.
- Ability to work calmly under pressure.
- Clear communicator.
- Demonstrates initiative and resourcefulness.
- Experience with Assistive AI technologies e.g Cursor, Copilot or Langchain (desirable)
Tech skills
- Selenium with Java
- API testing
- Jira
- Docker (desirable)
- Cucumber/Gherkin (desirable)
- Azure build pipelines (desirable)
- Cursor or Copilot (desirable)
- Karate framework (desirable)
- Nuxt and REACT (desirable)