Sr Quality Engineer

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co; Dublin; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) in Ireland is seeking a skilled Quality Engineer to join our autonomous Agile teams. You will help design, develop and maintain automated testing frameworks, ensuring high-quality software delivery and rapid release cycles across our learning platform.

Collaborating with developers, delivery leads, UI/UX and DevOps, you will extend testing tools, write maintainable automation code (JS or Java) and drive the quality agenda, aiming for robust test coverage, faster

Qualifications

• 5+ years of solid experience in developing test automation frameworks from scratch.
• At least 2 years experience working in an agile environment within a development team.
• Experience with source control tools like Git.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery concepts.
• A good understanding of the basic architecture of a modern web application (Microservices/SOA).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-quality test automation.
• Collaborate with developers, delivery leads, UI/UX/Architecture teams to deliver high-quality software in a continuous delivery environment.
• Write high-quality maintainable test automation code (JS or Java).
• Extend automation frameworks and ensure adequate test coverage, reliability and speed of execution.
• Drive the quality agenda in your team and mentor teammates.
• Engage in build pipeline/DevOps activities and internal DevOps enablement.

Skills

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Web app architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Git

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Job description

we’re a learning company. Our learning platform and solutions help millions of little learners to dream big and explore their potential. When you work at HMH, you know that what you do truly has a transformative lifelong impact. With over 53 million students and teachers using our learning platform, we have lots of interesting technical problems for you to solve. These include how students interact with content from our learning platforms, how it impacts learning outcomes, and how to provide data-driven guidance to maximize learner’s potential. Quality Engineering is at the very heart of this.

About The Team

HMH, Quality Engineering is a core function within all of our autonomous agile teams. We have a highly collaborative, continuous delivery culture. All teammates contribute to the quality of the product and take responsibility for the build pipeline to production (DevOps) and you will too. We’re a technology-forward company. For you this means, working on exciting modern automation tooling (Gatling, Codecept.io, RestAssured among others) and automation processes, as well as acceptance testing (UI/API), performance and security testing, monitoring, metrics, etc.

Primary Responsibilities

• Our focus is on high-quality software delivery – you will be part of an Agile team involved in planning, developing, debugging and executing test automation.
• This means working with our developers, delivery leads, UI/UX/Architecture teams, to deliver high-quality software in a continuous delivery environment (We have the ability to release several times a day, depending on the application).
• It means putting your coding skills to great use - writing high-quality maintainable test automation code (It depends on the team or technology but, it could be written in JS or java for example).
• It also means using and enhancing your automation skills by extending our team's automated testing frameworks. You'll be making sure we have adequate test coverage, reliability, speed of execution and test data creation in a Continuous Delivery environment (Jenkins/Concourse CI build pipelines).
• We also want to hear your ideas and support you implementing them - this means driving the quality agenda in your team – being an advocate of quality in your team, mentoring teammates, always looking for ways to improve tools and process.
• This is also an opportunity to be involved in all aspects of the delivery process, including build pipeline/Devops – we have our own internal DevOps enablement platform that allows teams to control their build pipelines and deployments.

What we’re looking for

We are seeking people who are genuinely interested and motivated in honing their Quality Engineering craft, building great automated testing suites and contributing to our quality culture.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science OR equivalent work experience

Required Knowledge And Skills

• A minimum of 5 years solid experience in developing test automation frameworks from scratch
• At least 2 years experience working in an agile environment, within a development team.
• Experience with source control tools like Git
• A strong understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery concepts
• A good understanding of the basic architecture of a modern web application (Microservices/SOA etc.)

Desirable Knowledge And Skills

• Experience with developing a test strategy or test approach.
• Experience with developing CI/CD pipelines using a CI provider such as Jenkins/CircleCI/Github Actions
• Experience with contract testing using a framework such as Pact

About Us

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre‑K–12 education content, services, and cutting‑edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award‑winning children’s books, novels, non‑fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world. For more information, visit http://careers.hmhco.com

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.