Software QA Engineer (Remote)

Corsham Science; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in pharmaceuticals is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure software meets business and regulatory requirements. The role involves implementing manual and automated tests in a collaborative agile environment, contributing to the delivery of vital software solutions in healthcare. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills, engaging with stakeholders at various levels.

Benefits

Annual leave of 25 days + bank holidays

Annual company bonus scheme

Pension with employer contribution

Life Assurance package

Employee Assistance Programme

Shopping discounts and benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in manual and automated testing methodologies.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and testing processes.
• Ability to write clear bug reports and test documentation.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Scrum development process and suggest improvements.
• Design test approaches and execute both manual and automated tests.
• Understand regulations influencing software documentation.

Skills

Manual testing

Automated testing

Problem-solving

Strong communication

Technical knowledge

Tools

Playwright framework

Docker

Job description

The Pharmaxo Group is an award winning, market leading pharmaceutical and healthcare business that serves customers, patients and medical professionals across the UK.

We are located in amodernmanufacturing and office facility in Corsham Science Park in Wiltshire, 5 miles from Chippenham and 8 miles from Bath. This is a fully remote role, though occasional site visits may be beneficial. The Pharmaxo Group comprises of:

Bath ASU which produces thousands of aseptically (sterile) compounded injectable pharmaceutical products each day for hospitals and patients who are fighting cancer, living with chronic disease or in need of pain relief.

Pharmaxo Healthcare which is a growing clinical homecare provider in an expanding market offering greater convenience to patients whilst delivering efficiencies to the NHS.

Pharmaxo Scientific whichdevelops the innovations in biotechnology, data and information technology that drive our businesses.

About the role

At Pharmaxo Scientific we work alongside our sister companies to develop and maintain bespoke software solutions, which are used daily to deliver medication and medical services to thousands of patients nationwide.

As a QA Engineer you will be embedded in one of our two development teams and will play a key role in ensuring that our software meets business and regulatory requirements by planning and implementing a mix of manual and automated tests. You’ll also need to work closely with the QA engineer on the other team, to ensure we take consistent approaches and follow best practices across both teams.

About you

We are looking for a passionate and talented QA Engineer; beyond day-to-day testing activity you will use your knowledge and experience to help shape quality focussed processes both within our development team, and in our interactions with the wider business units. You should be self-motivated and engaged, and collaborative when working with the development team, product manager, and wider business stakeholders.

You should be comfortable working remotely, under your own initiative and as part of the wider team. You will need strong technical knowledge, and aproven track record of problem-solving. The ability to learn quickly is important as you’ll have to pick up new technologies, and you will be expected to gain adeep understanding of our pharmaceutical business domain.

Strong communication skills are essential so you can interact with key stakeholders across multiple levels and understand business requirements.

What you’ll do

• Participate in our Scrum development process. Be able to reflect on our development process and suggest meaningful improvements.
• Understand system requirements and use a risk-based approach to design test approaches to verify that requirements are met without regressions.
• Execution of manual test cases, and implementation of automated E2E tests in conjunction with the developers in the team.
• Gain a deep level of domain understanding in the activities of our group companies and the way our software fits into their processes.
• Gain an understanding of the regulations which apply to our software and how that influences the documentation we are required to produce. Work with business stakeholders and help select appropriate standards, methods and tools for use by our team as we evolve our test strategy towards automation.

You should have experience in the following:

• Manual and automated testing methodologies.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and testing processes.
• The use of appropriate tools and strategies to design and execute test plans, including functional, regression, performance, and usability testing.
• Writing clear and concise bug reports and test documentation.
• Working within an agile environment (Scrum)

Even better if you have experience in some of the following:

• Specific knowledge of the Playwright framework, which we use for our automated E2E tests
• Delivering software into a regulated environment
• Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Knowledge of common security issues based on the OWASP top 10
• Automation of the creation of test environments and seed data, including use of Docker
• Annual leave of 25 days + bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 3 years’ service)
• Annual company bonus scheme (subject to scheme eligibility)
• Pension - you will be auto-enrolled after 3 months of employment at 5% (with an employer contribution of 4%). You can also opt to increase your contribution to 6% to which the employer will contribute 8%.
• Generous Life Assurance package
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and virtual GP service
• Pharmaxo Engage, our Reward & Recognition intranet which includes shopping discounts and benefits.

Manual and automated testing methodologies. Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and testing processes.