Senior QA Automation & Performance Engineer

RELX Group; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a QA Test Engineer to develop and execute automated and performance tests for backend services and APIs, ensuring software quality and timely delivery.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Operations, design end-to-end automated tests, and leverage Playwright or Cucumber, with a focus on automation and evolving AI-assisted testing practices within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing or a similar technical testing role.
• Strong hands-on experience with test automation, with a focus on automated rather than manual testing.
• Proven experience testing backend applications and services.
• Solid experience with API and integration testing, including automated API-level testing.
• Experience designing and executing end-to-end automated tests.
• Good programming or scripting skills. Java is preferred, although experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C# or PHP is also suitable, provided you're comfortable learning Java.
• Experience working with test automation frameworks. Playwright would be advantageous, but experience with tools such as Cucumber or other automation frameworks is also welcomed.
• Comfortable using, or enthusiastic about adopting, AI and agentic tools as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute automated and performance testing for assigned projects to successfully and consistently enable delivery of high-quality software products and services on time, on budget, and to specification.
• Interact with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations teams to plan testing for delivery of products and enhancements and to assure products meet product requirements and quality standards.
• Work with QA/Testing staff, project managers, technical leads, and subject matter experts to plan and execute automated and performance tests.
• Report issues and results, researching and identifying root causes as appropriate, documenting accordingly.
• Research available tools and participate in initiatives to implement those that will cost-effectively enhance testing capabilities and product quality.
• Research and identify root causes of performance issues in partnership with architects, developers, and network and system engineers.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices.
• Work across teams to enhance quality assurance/testing and help to develop/execute performance and automation testing throughout the business as appropriate.

Skills

Backend testing

API testing

Automation frameworks

Scripting languages

Java

Tools

Playwright

Cucumber

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a QA Test Engineer to develop and execute automated and performance tests for backend services and APIs, ensuring software quality and timely delivery.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Operations, design end-to-end automated tests, and leverage Playwright or Cucumber, with a focus on automation and evolving AI-assisted testing practices within a fast-paced environment.