Senior QA Automation Engineer

New Year, New Job! Exciting career opportunities await a Senior QA Automation Engineer at Immersive VR Education.

Are you looking for a unique challenge working in virtual & augmented reality with a bleeding-edge technology company? Then read on.

Immersive VR Education is one of the world’s leading virtual reality development studios and is headquartered in Waterford, Ireland. In recent years, we’ve picked up multiple awards for our virtual reality education & corporate training platform, ENGAGE, and our work on Apollo 11 VR, and Titanic VR.

Due to continued growth and success, we are looking for a competent Senior QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of industry experience to join our dedicated QA team in Waterford.  This talented individual must have a vision and drive and must not be afraid to back big ideas.

This is an opportunity to build your career with our highly collaborative and engaging team as part of a fast-growing & creative company. The digital world is changing, let’s shape it together.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and mentoring to other team members.
• Comfortable representing QA team and presenting to management.
• Proactively improves processes to help deliver a better product.
• Investigates new software tools & test frameworks that can be used by the QA team.
• Reviews test plans and test cases prepared by other QA team members to ensure good standards.
• Creates and maintains standard documents to be used by the QA team.
• Plan, design, implement & execute verification and validation tests and report bugs in a clear and concise manner.
• Manually test features that cannot be automated using scripted or non-scripted methods such as exploratory testing.
• Provide regression tests when functional changes are done.
• Design and develop automated functional and load tests.
• Work with projects manager and/or technical leads to define test requirements.
• Collaborate with the team in an Agile Environment to help create great features.
• Work to the best of your ability to meet project milestone dates.
• Provide solutions to design and implement automated tests.
• Identify areas for improvement to help make things better.

Essential Knowledge & Skills

• Candidate has achieved an honours degree in computer science/engineering or a related field.
• Excellent understanding of test engineering best practices, methodologies and processes.
• 5+ years manual and 3+ years automated functional software test experience.
• Experience using with at least 1 testing framework or tool (i.e. Cucumber, Selenium, Appium, TestCafe, Cypress, Puppeteer etc)
• Experience with programming languages (For example JavaScript, Node.js, c#, php etc)
• Experience testing Web APIs.
• Experience with Continuous Integration using Jenkins (or similar tools).
• Experience with source control systems such as Git.
• Experience testing Android mobile applications.
• Good understanding of relational database structure and design. Comfortable creating SQL queries.
• Ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Experience using JIRA (or other defect tracking tools).
• Experience of working in an Agile SCRUM development environment.
• Self motivated and self directed so can work autonomously, prioritizing work in accordance with the project’s needs.

Desirable But Not Essential

• Gained ISTQB Foundation Level certification.
• Experience with automated testing of Unity applications.
• Experience creating & maintaining JIRA reporting dashboards.
• Knowledge of video games industry.

Salary: D.O.E

Job Type: Full-time

NOTE: This position is not suitable for Graduate, Junior or mid level workers. Having an EU work permit is desirable. For this position, you will start working remotely due to current restrictions.  However, it will be expected that post COVID-19 that you would be able to visit our EU office located in Waterford, Ireland either full time or with agreed arrangements for remote working.

To apply for this job please email for CV to: careers@immersivevreducation.com