QA Automation Engineer
Limerick, Ireland (Hybrid)
The Opportunity:
Transact Campus specialize in mobile-centric university campus technology for integrated campus payments, campus ID, and campus commerce solutions. We have a strong start-up energy and focus on innovation backed with over 35 years in the education sector serving 12 million students, across more than 1,300 institutions, and facilitating more than $45 billion in transactions.
Our Values
At Transact Campus, we value small cross-functional self-organizing product teams. Each team has the autonomy to decide how best to build software and what tools they use to create it. We use agile methodologies and strongly believe in creating a trusting group climate where respect for each other is key, where speaking the truth is valued and where shared ownership is the goal. We believe in ongoing training, personal development and learning and we are excited to help you bring your career to the next level alongside a talented group of engineers.
Our People
As an industry leading software company, we are lucky to have deep support and experience in-house with talented engineers, infrastructure experts and architects across the Transact global family working as part of and alongside our teams. Together, we invest in each other’s success. We have surfers, runners, chess players, snowboarders, dads, mums, married people, single people, hurlers, speakers, soccer fans, rugby fans, folk dancers, yoga fans, book clubbers, seasoned travelers, Lego builders, animal lovers, cyclists, gardeners, gamers and tv show afficionados.
We celebrate our differences. You will feel part of our team here and make connections and friends with great people. We love creating software, but we know it is the people you work with and meet along the way who make the difference. We are looking for people who enjoy experimentation, who can be creative and adapt to a changing environment. We value people who really love to work as part of a team to build great software in a fun environment. Are you that person?
Position Responsibilities:
As a QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of continuous delivery of our SaaS offerings . Specifically, you’ll help coordinate testing efforts and collaborate with global members of the team in an agile working environment. You will create test strategies, test plans, and execute them for both UI and REST APIs as a continuous effort for enhancing test effectiveness. You will perform all aspects of verification including functional, regression, and system testing.
You will also design, implement, and maintain complex testing environments and troubleshoot and isolate problems encountered during testing. You will be an ambassador and guide of product quality in the team and evangelize quality measures.
The Requirements:
• 3-5 years of experience in software QA and test automation.• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and JavaScript test frameworks like Mocha or
Jest.
• Proven ability in testing complex software systems in fast-paced environments.• Solid experience testing REST APIs and analysing responses.• Working knowledge of test automation for UI, API, and performance testing.• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across global teams.• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.• Demonstrable ability through completed projects and publicly available code (e.g., GitHub).
• Strong manual testing capabilities, with a solid understanding of test case design, defect reporting, and exploratory testing techniques.
Desirable Skills:
• Experience with Playwright Framework and JavaScript testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, or
Cypress.
• Familiarity with JIRA for issue tracking• Knowledge of Azure DevOps and Octopus Deploy• Exposure to load and performance testing tools
Why Join Us?
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies• Collaborative and supportive work environment.• Ongoing professional development and training opportunities• Hybrid Working. • Regular social, sporting and community events. • Benefits - Private Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Matched Pension Contribution, 25 Days Annual LeaveThis job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.
Transact Campus Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, protected military/veteran status, or any other protected factor.
