What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Quality Test Engineer - Automation Testing position at Elsevier?
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About the role - Due to our unprecedented growth within our core Health Markets, we are now looking to expand our Quality Test Engineering Team. We are looking to hire multiple Automated Quality Test Engineers.
About the team -This team is building a generative-AI-powered clinical decision support tool designed specifically to help healthcare professionals quickly find trusted, evidence-based answers at the point of care. It combines a massive curated medical knowledge base with conversational AI so clinicians can ask questions in natural language and get concise, clinically relevant responses backed by real scientific evidence.
Qualifications
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Webdriver.io or Playwright with strong JavaScript/TypeScript expertise.
- Translate product requirements into effective automated test strategies, optimizing and refactoring frameworks for reliability, maintainability, and performance.
- Develop and execute comprehensive RESTful API tests, validating functionality, security, authentication, and performance.
- Implement and support BDD practices (Cucumber/Gherkin) to ensure clear alignment between business requirements and automated test coverage.
- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, BrowserStack) with parallel execution, reporting, and artifact management.
- Conduct accessibility testing aligned with WCAG guidelines using tools such as Axe, Pa11y, or WAVE, including manual validation practices.
- Design and execute performance and load testing using tools like K6, Locust, or JMeter, defining SLAs and analyzing system bottlenecks.
- Collaborate cross-functionally in Agile environments, manage defects in tracking systems, and provide detailed documentation to ensure high-quality releases.
Responsibilities
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript with hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks using Webdriver.io or Playwright.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, maintainable test architectures (e.g., Page Object Model, modular frameworks) and translate product requirements into effective automated test coverage.
- Solid experience in RESTful API testing, including validation of authentication (OAuth/JWT), data integrity, error handling, and performance.
- Practical experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, BrowserStack) with parallel execution and automated reporting.
- Working knowledge of BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber/Gherkin) and the ability to align automated tests with business requirements.
- Experience performing accessibility testing aligned with WCAG standards, using tools such as Axe, Pa11y, or WAVE, including manual validation techniques.
- Experience conducting performance/load testing (K6, Locust, or JMeter) and analyzing results to identify bottlenecks and ensure system reliability.