Automation QA Engineer

Brightflag; Ireland; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI-powered legal management platform is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of their legal operations platform. You will design automated tests, collaborate with agile teams, and identify areas for improvement. A successful candidate will have strong programming skills in Java or Typescript, experience in automation, and a degree in Computer Science. This role offers an opportunity for professional growth in a vibrant tech-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years as a QA Engineer, with at least 1 year in an automation role.
• Experience with automation methodologies and practices.
• Ability to analyze, estimate, and plan work tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and execute automated testing processes.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure product feature quality.
• Identify and track software defects and ensure timely resolution.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Java or Typescript

Experience with test framework tools (TestNG, JUnit)

Experience with SQL and databases

Knowledge of CI tools (AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI)

Strong problem-solving skills

Ability to write effective bug reports

Growth mindset in QA

Education

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Brightflag is growing. As a market leader, with a product that customers truly love, we’re scaling quickly. To continue to build and evolve our AI‑first product we’re growing our Product & Engineering team across multiple disciplines. We have an exceptional team and a high bar. We challenge ourselves with ambitious goals, best practice standards and a drive for continuous improvement. If you want to grow, get better and accelerate your career in Engineering, Brightflag is the place for you.

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our legal operations platform through the design, implementation, and execution of automated testing processes. You will work closely with cross‑functional teams to identify areas for improvement and contribute to the overall success of our product.

What You Will Be Doing

• Work within a QA team with a purpose to automate tests, collaborating closely with our agile development teams (Software Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, manual QA Engineers) to ensure product feature quality
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications, APIs, and other software components.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate automated testing into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Create and implement comprehensive automation test plans based on project requirements and specifications.
• Work with QA and development teams to identify and prioritize test cases for automation.
• Identify, document, and track software defects, ensuring timely resolution and communication of issues to the development team.
• Design and execute performance and load testing scenarios to identify and address potential bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Participate in Automation Sprint Refinements & Planning for sizing of testing effort, utilising retrospectives to improve teamwork

Skills & Experience

To be successful in the role, you need:

• Strong programming skills, experience with Java, Typescript or equivalent typed programming language
• Good knowledge of test framework tools such as TestNG, JUnit or similar, and experience with SQL and databases.
• Experience with Continuous integration tools such as AWS CodeBuild / Code Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI
• Strong knowledge best practice automation methodologies to ensure timely execution of test suites, maintainable data set setup and test scripts.
• Experience with industry standard Product & Test Management systems (Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Demonstrated self‑starter with ability to take direct steps to ensuring Product quality within team
• Great ability to analyse, estimate and plan work tasks within a team
• Strong problem solver and ability to troubleshoot issues in applications and automation environments.
• Demonstrated ability to write & maintain test cases with Ability to write good bug reports
• Actions show a growth mindset in QA (reporting, troubleshooting, specialised testing.)
• A minimum of 3 years as a QA Engineer, with at least 1 year in an automation role
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related field experience

About Brightflag

Hi, we’re Brightflag, the AI‑powered, enterprise legal management platform that helps corporate legal departments operate with greater clarity, efficiency, and control.

Powered by our patented AI, which was developed with over 100,000 hours of legal and engineering expertise, and supported by our best‑in‑class Customer Success teams, Brightflag enables in‑house legal teams to streamline operations, manage matters and spend, and collaborate more effectively with outside counsel.

Today, Brightflag is trusted by leading global organisations and forms part of the Legal & Regulatory division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services. You can learn more about Brightflag here.