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 help ensure quality throughout the entire software development lifecycle. You will work across a portfolio of core internal applications that underpin daily operations within the business. These systems are used daily by brokers and play a critical role in compliance, operational efficiency, and decision-making.

What You’ll Do

You will be responsible for establishing and executing test plans, undertaking manual testing, and developing automated tests that support continuous delivery. The role involves collaborating closely with engineers, product stakeholders, and business users to shape acceptance criteria, identify edge cases early, and drive high-quality delivery.

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

• Act as the quality owner for features and support fixes - from discovery to production release.

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

• Identify and implement test cases and continuously improve or introduce testing frameworks.

• Build and scale test automation-identify high-value flows in apps and build automation for them.

• Collaborate across Product, Dev and Support-work closely with the Product Manager to ensure stories are testable and have clear acceptance criteria.

• Support developers in understanding edge cases, data issues, and historical behaviors of legacy apps.

Skills and Experience

Personal Attributes:

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

• Collaborative work style, ability to lead and bring others along

• Suggests and drives better practices in testing, automation, and release processes

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

• Detail-oriented with big-picture awareness-understands both technical edge cases and real business impact

• 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

Core Skills:

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

• Knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Gherkin, Postman)

• 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

• Hands-on manual testing of complex workflows across web UI, APIs, SQL-driven logic and background jobs

• Strategic approach to test prioritisation - what to automate vs. what to test manually

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!