Automation QA Engineer

The Opportunity

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 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, utilise retrospectives to improve teamwork

Skills & Experience

To be successful in the role, you need:

• Proven experience in QA automation with expertise in web browser QA automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent and experience coding automation against Rest APIs. 
• Strong programming skills, experience with Java, Typescript or equivalent typed programming language
• Good knowledge of test framework tools such as in 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

Location & Eligibility

This role offers a flexible work location across Ireland, whether that be in the office remote from anywhere in Ireland, or a mix of office/remote work in Ireland, you choose what works best for your lifestyle. There are quarterly team meet ups that all of the team are expected to attend in our Dublin office - a good opportunity to catch up and spend sometime working together in person.

Your time is valuable. To help with your application, we advise that regrettably we cannot offer work permit sponsorship/ self sponsorship for this role. 

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 organizations 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.