2 months ago
Remote, United KingdomMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Write, maintain, and extend automated test suites for a LUMA application module using Cucumber, TypeScript, Cypress, and Playwright where applicable.
- Own day-to-day quality for the assigned area by contributing test scenarios, testing stories, and communicating release readiness.
- Design and document functional, regression, and integration test cases.
- Perform manual exploratory testing for early-stage features and scientifically complex areas.
- Investigate and reproduce defects, create evidence-based bug reports in JIRA, and verify fixes.
- Maintain trustworthy automated tests in CI pipelines and help improve test execution and reporting.
- Interpret API documentation and convert it into meaningful automated test coverage.
- Collaborate with developers, application scientists, DevOps engineers, product management, and test automation experts.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of experience in QA/testing, including at least one year of hands-on test automation.
- Practical Cypress experience, including selectors, custom commands, debugging failures, and working with an existing Page Object Model.
- Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript, including promises and async/await.
- Experience with BDD/Cucumber or willingness to learn it quickly, including Gherkin specifications.
- Ability to design, document, and maintain clear, repeatable test scenarios.
- Experience with Git and GitHub, including branching, pull requests, and code review.
- Experience with JIRA or a similar issue-tracking system.
- Experience testing React applications is preferred.
- Playwright experience, API testing with Postman or REST clients, performance/load testing with K6, and experience validating data integrity across migrations or schema changes are additional qualifications.
- A background or interest in science, engineering, or research software is beneficial.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment.
- Mentorship and support from senior SDETs with opportunities to develop technical depth and scientific domain knowledge.
- Collaborative global team environment with opportunities to work alongside software development, product, scientific, DevOps, and test automation experts.
- Equal opportunity workplace focused on inclusion, support, and connection.
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About Dotmatics
Dotmatics builds cloud-based R&D scientific software that unifies biology, chemistry, and data management workflows for biopharma, chemicals/materials companies, and academic labs; products include Luma, ELN, GraphPad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, and LabArchives. The company sells SaaS and enterprise licenses for data integration, analysis, and decision support, is headquartered in Boston, and operates as a Siemens company following its acquisition.