Senior QA Engineer

Company Overview

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it is our people that drive success for our clients. To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com

Role Summary 

We are looking for a strong QA professional to join our team and ensure quality across the SDLC for one of the key tools for our Brokers.

If you are a motivated QA Engineer who can undertake manual testing, develop automated testing, is well organised and methodical, passionate about technology and eager to develop your existing skills and experience, then this role could be for you.

The team you will join is responsible for development of a new product that empower brokers through an intelligent, connected platform that simplifies workflows and fosters collaboration. As a greenfield project, we're creating our quality assurance processes, testing frameworks, and standards from scratch - giving you the unique opportunity to shape the entire QA landscape of our product.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for improving the development processes and standards with your peers across the Division, and within your own Team. The team you will be part of is a multi-functional team alongside developers, and all supported by an Engineering Manager and Product Manager.

• Drive quality across all disciplines, providing guidance, feedback and suggestions to improve quality practices across the teams.

• Take ownership of a feature quality, this includes being involved in any solution definition of a feature once the Product has defined the scope.

• Plan any testing and make sure any requirements are sorted out up front (environments, users, test data, etc.)

• Testing the feature, liaising with Dev/Product as necessary during the test phase

• Identify and implement test cases and continuously improve our testing frameworks.

• Responsible for building and extension of testing framework.

Skills and Experience

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent communication skills, able to effectively liaise with people at all levels

• Collaborative work style, ability to lead and to bring other people along

• Business perspective understanding and prioritization – providing technical solutions aligned with business needs

• Strong analytical, problem solving and issue resolution skills.

• Attention to detail and a high focus on accuracy

• Team player with the ability to exercise independent decision making

• Hands-on, dependable, detailed, quality-conscious and result driven

• Flexible and able to adapt to new ideas with a can-do attitude

• Able to learn and research independently

• Able to plan successfully and understand the big picture

Core Skills:

• Experience in creating test scenarios, test cases, and test management.

• Knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks (for example Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Gherkin, Postman, Playwright)

• Practical experience with test preparation, execution, defect reporting, and maintenance of test documentation

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of quality best practices, techniques, and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements.

• Experience in creating test environments and test data.

• Functional Testing

• End-to-end (E2E) testing strategies and automation

• Integration testing between system components

• User interface and API testing frameworks

• Non-Functional Testing:

• Performance testing and load testing protocols

• Security testing practices and vulnerability assessments

• Accessibility and usability testing standards

• Compatibility testing across platforms and browsers

• Practical experience of testing applications, APIs and validating directly against SQL databases

What can you expect from us?

In return you will have an exciting opportunity to join and be part of a leading organisation that is shaping the maritime industry. This is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment where there are significant opportunities for growth and development.

The actual work is important, but it’s also essential for us at Clarksons that we all stay happy, relaxed and motivated. That’s why we provide a wide range of benefits to all our employees:

• Private medical care (Luxmed)

• Voluntary group life insurance

• MyBenefit or Multisport card

• Language courses (English and German)

• Mentoring program and numerous internal pieces of training

• Employee referral program

• Paid days off from services (B2B)

• A paid day off to care for your health - “Dzień na U”

• Integration events, joint company trips, birthday celebrations and many other

What we offer

• Salary: DOE 17 000 - 24 000 PLN/month (B2B) or UoP

• Flexible working hours

• You choose how you work - from our office in Poznań or remotely from home, or like most of us, work hybrid

• Strong focus on growth, interesting projects & people who enjoy working with each other!