Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do:

• UK & Ireland’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test / Senior Test Engineer / Test Analyst with strong hands-on automation testing experience. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain automated test suites using industry-standard tools to validate client-facing applications and ensure high product quality across AWS-based systems, including AI/ML platforms and data/analytics infrastructure (e.g., AWS Bedrock, Databricks) and database layers (Aurora / PostgreSQL).

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing Test creation, execution, defects, retests, sync with BAs for requirement clarity.
• Representing team in all scrum meetings and own the discussion.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective meetings.
• Understand and execute test strategies and test plan.
• Integration and Data layer testing as part of ETL.
• Perform database testing and data validation for AWS Aurora / PostgreSQL (schemas, queries, stored logic where applicable), ensuring data integrity across services and pipelines.
• Test data/analytics and AI/ML workflows (e.g., Databricks jobs/pipelines, feature engineering, model/LLM inference integration) across environments.
• Validate AI/GenAI service integrations (e.g., AWS Bedrock) including prompt/response contracts, latency, error handling, and safety/guardrail behaviors.
• Collaborate with data/ML engineers to define test data, quality checks, and observability for pipelines (logs/metrics), and to mitigate issues such as data drift and schema changes.
• E2E system testing by covering all flows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and ensure test coverage.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Reviewing test environments and processes to facilitate continuous improvement and maintenance of quality standards.
• Providing test estimates
• Build automation using selenium, Java OR any industry standard tool.

Qualifications

• Total 5-7 years of manual + Automation QA experience, out of which 2 years of hands on  working experience in automation.

• Working in Agile and deep understanding of Agile working and understanding of agile terms (Velocity, Burndown, Scrum, Sprint, Product backlog and Sprint Backlog, Retro, story points etc)

• Hands-on database testing experience with Aurora / PostgreSQL, including writing SQL for validation (joins, aggregations, views) and troubleshooting data issues.

• Hands-on experience testing data platforms and AI/ML infrastructure (e.g., Databricks, AWS Bedrock) including pipeline validation and inference/service integration testing.

• Understanding of GenAI/LLM testing approaches: prompt/response validation, test datasets, regression suites, basic evaluation metrics, and safety/guardrail testing.

• Familiarity with AWS fundamentals (IAM, networking basics, logs/monitoring) and testing considerations for cloud-based AI/ML services (security, privacy, cost, and performance).

• Strong testing concepts in different types of testing, their dependencies and stages.

• Demonstrated experience of Automated Quality Assurance: Deliver overnight, cross-browser, functional, non-functional, API, integration and acceptance tests.

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI).

• Experience in Test scope understanding, Test UserStory/Task/subtask creation

• Confident with building and maintaining frameworks in one or more of these languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, or C#

• Experience with other test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, WebDriver, JUnit).

• Any performance testing experience or other non-functional testing experience would be added advantage.

• Testing Tools and Technologies: Appium, Docker, Kubernetes, Postman, Jenkins, Java, Eclipse / IntelliJ IDEA, Linux, TestNG, Selenium, SQL, AWS (incl. Aurora / PostgreSQL, Bedrock), Databricks

• Very good Database testing experience, writing queries, views, joins etc..

Additional Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Strong attention to detail and outstanding analytical and Problem-solving skills.

Analytical and Problem-solving skill

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company’s profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact [recruiter email address][EM1]  at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.

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