Job purpose
Quality Engineering is about building quality into every stage of delivery: the product, the process, and the way teams work together. As part of the centralized quality engineering team, you will help teams identify risks early, define effective test approaches, and provide fast, reliable feedback through manual, exploratory, and automated testing. By promoting shift-left quality practices, the role helps increase test coverage, reduce regression risk, and strengthen release confidence.
It is suited to a Quality Engineer with hands-on testing experience
who is motivated by continuous improvement, automation, and collaborative delivery. Reporting to the QA Manager, the successful candidate will work across projects and product teams to ensure requirements are testable, risks are understood, and quality is considered from the earliest stages of the software development lifecycle.
What you will do:
Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts, and supporting documentation aligned to product requirements, acceptance criteria, and risk.
Execute functional, regression, integration, API, exploratory, and non-functional testing as appropriate to the solution and delivery context.
Develop, maintain, and improve automated test scripts and test suites using agreed tools and frameworks.
Support continuous testing by integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and helping teams act on fast, reliable feedback.
Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, expected outcomes, evidence, and severity information.
Collaborate with developers and delivery teams to reproduce issues, verify fixes, and prevent recurring defects.
Review requirements and designs to identify ambiguity, missing acceptance criteria, quality risks, and opportunities for earlier validation.
Prepare and communicate test progress, quality insights, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and timely way.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of quality engineering standards, testing practices, automation frameworks and tooling.
Prepare and present test reports and quality metrics to stakeholders where required.
Apply Johnson Matthey testing, quality assurance, and secure software development policies and standards in day-to-day delivery
Key requirements:
3+ years’ experience in software quality assurance, software testing, or quality engineering within complex delivery environments.
Hands-on knowledge of test automation tools or frameworks such as Robot Framework, Playwright, Cypress or similar;
Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar.
Experience in testing software across multiple channels (Web, Desktop, etc).
Strong understanding of software testing techniques, quality assurance principles, risk-based testing, and defect management.
Proven ability to take ownership, deliver outcomes reliably, and learn new tools, practices, and technologies.
Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery.
What we offer:
Salary range for this position is from 40,000 to 55,500 EUR (gross) per year depending on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. Other rewards and benefits include the following:
Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; hybrid way of working; health insurance from the first day of employment; employee assistance program
Life, accidents & critical diseases insurance
25 days of paid vacation leave
IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contributions
Paid volunteering opportunities (2 days per year)
Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization
At JM, an inclusive culture is integral to our values and ambitions for the future. We are committed to ensuring that everyone can bring their full self to work and thrive in their career. Welcoming everyone to JM, regardless of their unique characteristics, experiences or thoughts allows us to bring many different voices and experiences together to tackle the world's biggest challenges. Being truly inclusive means that all colleagues feel valued for their differences, views and contributions, and feel a sense of belonging at JM.
Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 organisation, is a global leader in sustainable technologies specialising in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals and process technology. With operations in over 30 countries, we employ more than 12,600 people. We have more 200 years of success behind us; be part of the next stage of our growth journey and help maintain our reputation as one of the most admired organisations in our field. Our unique culture and people give us competitive advantage and will ensure our success for years to come. You can be part of that success story.
Johnson Matthey is open for discussion on part-time, job share and flexible working patterns.
How to apply:
If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online. For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please let your recruiter know when they contact you.
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Skills Required
- 3+ years experience in software quality assurance, software testing, or quality engineering within complex delivery environments.
- Hands-on knowledge of test automation tools or frameworks such as Robot Framework, Playwright, Cypress or similar.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Experience in testing software across multiple channels (Web, Desktop, etc).
- Strong understanding of software testing techniques, quality assurance principles, risk-based testing, and defect management.
- Proven ability to take ownership, deliver outcomes reliably, and learn new tools, practices, and technologies.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery.
What We Do
We are Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies. Our customers include many of the world’s leading energy, chemicals and automotive companies. They depend on us to use our cutting-edge science to enable them to decarbonise, reduce harmful emissions and improve their sustainability. With climate change, energy supply and resource scarcity high on the agenda, this work is more critical now than ever before.
