Quality Test Engineer III

Overview

As a QA Test Engineer at Elsevier, you will design and run automated and performance tests to ensure high-quality software supporting health education and clinical workflows. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and operations to align testing with requirements and business goals, and you’ll drive continuous improvement across the organization. The role offers the chance to shape testing practices and scale quality across a global team. You will work with cross-functional partners and leverage automation to deliver reliable solutions at pace.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible hours
• wellbeing initiatives
• shared parental leave
• study assistance
• sabbaticals

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute automated and performance tests for assigned projects to enable timely, high-quality delivery
• Coordinate with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations to plan testing for product releases and enhancements
• Collaborate with QA testers, project managers, technical leads, and subject matter experts to plan and execute automated tests
• Report issues and results, perform root-cause analysis, and document findings
• Research and adopt cost-effective tools to enhance testing capabilities and product quality
• Identify performance root causes with architects, developers, and network/system engineers
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and best-practice implementation
• Advance quality assurance and testing across teams through automation and performance testing across the business

Key requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in Quality Engineering or similar testing role
• Strong hands-on experience with test automation focusing on automated testing
• Proven experience testing backend applications and services
• Solid experience with API and integration testing, including automated API-level testing
• Experience designing and executing end-to-end automated tests
• Good programming or scripting skills (Java preferred; Python/JavaScript/TypeScript/C# or PHP acceptable)
• Experience with test automation frameworks (Playwright advantageous; Cucumber or similar frameworks welcomed)
• Comfort with or enthusiasm for AI/agentic tools in engineering workflows

• collaboration across teams
• continuous improvement mindset
• effective communication
• test automation
• API and integration testing
• performance testing

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