Junior QA Engineer

RWS; Dublin; On-site; EUR 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovative work environment

Opportunities for growth

Recognition as one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces in Tech

Job summary

RWS is looking for a Junior QA Engineer to join their team in Dublin. This role focuses on expanding core product offerings while ensuring high-quality software development in legislative workflow management tools.

Candidates should have 1-2 years of experience in quality engineering and be skilled in automated testing tools such as Selenium and Cypress. The position offers opportunities for personal growth within a supportive environment that values innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in quality engineering with a focus on automated testing tools.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of Selenium and Cypress.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure client releases are robust before UAT.
• Build Functional test plans and strategies.
• Design and implement a test automation strategy.
• Identify and resolve technical issues with project teams.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Decision-making capabilities

Organizational skills

Education

1-2 years of experience in quality engineering

Certified testing qualification (ISTQB, ICAgile, etc.)

Experience with SDLC principles

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Xray

SQL (Postgres, MySQL)

JIRA

Job description

Job Purpose

About RWS: RWS is a global AI solutions company empowering the world’s most trusted enterprise AI. Through our Generate, Transform and Protect segments, we deliver intelligent content, enterprise knowledge, large-scale localization and IP protection for global growth. Trusted by 80+ of the world’s top 100 brands, RWS provides the confidence, governance and expertise organizations need to deploy AI safely, responsibly and at scale. Headquartered in the UK, RWS is listed on AIM (RWS.L). More information: rws.com.

About Propylon: Propylon is the Dublin‑based content‑management arm within the RWS group, specialising in software for legal and regulatory workflows. For more than 20 years, Propylon has helped governments, standard bodies and regulated organisations manage legislation, regulations and legal content in a smarter, modular way.

Joining Propylon means working in a people‑led, innovation‑driven environment recognised as one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces in Tech – while having the backbone and global reach of RWS. You’d be contributing to meaningful projects that shape law, compliance and global content workflows, with the support and flexibility to grow your skills and career.

Job Overview

Job Purpose: We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior QA Engineer to join our team in expanding our core product offering and working across major client projects. The Propylon Government Solutions team is developing the next generation of Legislative workflow management tools. The ideal candidate will be a detail‑focused quality engineer and be able to demonstrate an understanding of automated testing tools (Selenium & Playwright) as well as familiarity with procedure‑driven automated tools (RPA). Propylon is a small software company dedicated to delivering high‑quality software for our clients. Individual contributors have significant influence over technical decision‑making and are expected to take high levels of ownership for the code they produce.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Quality teams & Analysts within Propylon to ensure client releases are at their most robust before going to UAT.
• Building out Functional test plans and strategies against User stories and business design documents to ensure traceability from requirements to story to test case.
• Participate in planning of regression test coverage and execution against each release.
• Work with Quality test leads to design and implement an overall test automation strategy for the various client implementations, paying particular attention to maintenance.
• Working with internal project team members to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Acting and tracking on lessons learnt (retrospective items) from one release to the next across multiple implementations.

Requirements

• 1‑2 years of experience in quality engineering
• Experience with the principles of SDLC
• Experience with Xray or other similar test case management tools
• Experience in preparing test results and reports for upper management to track testing progress
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of Selenium & Cypress
• Working knowledge of SQL based RDBMS, e.g. Postgres, MySQL
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven decision making capabilities
• Be personally well organised, presentable, and manage one’s own time effectively

Nice to haves

• Certified testing qualification (ISTQB, ICAgile, etc.)
• Experience with RPA Libraries within Python
• Experience with XML processing
• Experience with document management/document workflow software
• Familiarity with DevOps workflow/principles around building automated testing suites on CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with office‑style applications e.g ability to create macros, spreadsheet formulae, etc.
• Experience working with JIRA
• Experience working in an agile team

Personal Attributes

• Wants to be part of a team that is committed to delivering high quality innovative products
• Wants to be part of a culture that is committed to sharing and enhancing the knowledge of the wider team, supporting team wide learning and success
• Have a curious mindset – about what you do, the technology you use and how you connect with others to deliver products that we are proud to deliver to our clients

Equal Opportunity Statement

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.