3 days ago
Bristol, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Apply consistent software testing standards, risk management, and quality practices across projects.
- Collaborate with software, product, and operational teams to make requirements testable and aligned with quality goals.
- Design, execute, manage, and maintain robust manual and automated test suites.
- Develop scalable and maintainable automated testing solutions within CI/CD pipelines using an automation-first approach.
- Support release activities by providing evidence-based recommendations on readiness.
- Test mobile applications, geospatial tooling, cloud platforms, sensing systems, provisioning systems, APIs, and hardware-integrated software.
- Coach and mentor peers and early-career engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of testing practices.
- Support customer-facing integration and testing activities and facilitate discussions around quality.
Requirements
- Experience translating requirements and user stories into comprehensive test suites, including accessibility, usability, and mobile best practices.
- Working knowledge of agile methodologies and tools including Jira and Confluence.
- Hands-on scripting experience for test automation and tooling with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
- Experience maintaining scalable and resilient automated test solutions using tools or frameworks such as Playwright, PyTest, or UI Automator.
- Experience with Git and running automated tests in CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions.
- Experience testing in AWS or Azure cloud environments, including test environments, logs, and monitoring.
- Experience working with APIs and integration test automation.
- Desirable experience includes testing distributed or data-synchronizing systems, connected hardware, Android systems, and non-functional areas such as security, performance, resilience, and load testing.
- Understanding of how AI can be used across the software test lifecycle is desirable.
- ISTQB or equivalent certification is desirable.
- Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance and able to work autonomously across multidisciplinary environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid working is available, with a minimum and typical average of three days per week on-site at the Bristol headquarters.
- Occasional travel is required for integration and testing activities.
- Flexible working, part-time working arrangements, and workplace adjustments can be discussed.
- The role offers opportunities to grow and gain experience in mission-critical engineering and testing.
- The company supports an inclusive workplace and encourages applications from people with disabilities and health conditions.
About Rowden
Rowden builds mission-critical, real-time edge computing systems that turn advances in sensing, AI, and communications into operational capability in degraded or denied environments. It provides systems integration, software, and technology services to national security, defense, and critical industry customers, improving decision-making for frontline teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bristol, England, the privately held company operates over 20,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing facilities.