Senior Quality Test Engineer-II
Do you enjoy improving quality and driving automation strategies in complex technology environments?
Would you like to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products and data solutions?
About our Team:
This is a position in the Research Data Platform team responsible for performing functional testing and developing and executing performance and automation testing solutions for a platform built to support large-scale data transformation, processing, and analytics workflows. The team focuses on ensuring quality, scalability, and reliability across data-driven applications and distributed systems.
About the Role:
This position works with the development team to develop functional testing, apply automation strategy and to plan and execute effective and efficient performance and automation testing to accomplish on-time and efficient delivery of high-quality software products and/or data.
This position works with the development team to develop functional testing, apply automation strategy and to plan and execute effective and efficient performance and automation testing to accomplish on-time and efficient delivery of high-quality software products and/or data.
Responsibilities:-
Innovating process improvements that enable efficient delivery and maintenance with consistent direction.
Researching available tools and lead or participate in initiatives to identify and implement those that will cost-effectively enhance testing capabilities and product quality
Developing and execute automated and performance testing for assigned projects to enable delivery of high-quality software products and services successfully and consistently on time, on budget, and to specification
Interacting with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations teams to plan testing for delivery of products and enhancements and to assure products meet product requirements and quality standards.
Reporting issues and results, researching and identifying root causes as appropriate, documenting accordingly
Ensuring that testing addresses requirements as agreed with other stakeholders.
Conducting project reviews, ensuring review criteria are defined, and implementing procedures for ensuring quality control of project deliverables
Leading or participate in continuous improvement initiatives and
implementation of best practices
Requirements:-
Demonstrated ownership for overall product quality, driving quality practices across development and testing activities.
Strong understanding of QA methodologies, software development lifecycle, and process improvement practices.
Strong programming experience in Java with ability to design and maintain automation solutions.
Solid, hands-on automation testing experience - building, maintaining, and scaling automated test suites across functional, integration, and regression testing
Strong learning agility - comfortable picking up new tools and technologies on the job (e.g., Kafka, Databricks, Spark) with minimal ramp-up time if not already familiar
Ability to define effective test strategies and design comprehensive test scenarios covering functional, integration, and edge-case conditions
Experience testing micro services and distributed system architectures.
Strong SQL knowledge.
Working knowledge of AWS services or another cloud platform.
Understanding of CI/CD integration (Github Actions or similar)
Experience participating in PR reviews for test automation code quality, maintainability, and adherence to engineering standards
Strong analytical, research, and root cause analysis skills, with a focus on continuous improvement
Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, and Operations
Experience supporting end-to-end (E2E) and integration testing across multiple systems and domains
Nice to Have:-
Experience testing event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging platforms
Exposure to data engineering or data quality testing, and working with formats like Parquet, XML, JSON, or large-scale datasets
Familiarity with schema validation approaches (e.g., SHACL or similar)
Understanding of Spark jobs or distributed data processing environments such as EMR
Hands-on experience with Databricks specifically (beyond SQL querying - e.g., notebooks, job orchestration)
Experience monitoring applications and analyzing logs using tools such as New Relic or similar observability platforms
Experience with Docker or other containerization technologies
Work in a Way That Works for You:-
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working for You:-
We understand that your well-being and happiness are essential to a successful career. Here are some benefits we offer:
Comprehensive Health Insurance.
Enhanced Health Insurance Options.
Group Life Insurance.
Group Accident Insurance.
Flexible Working Arrangements.
Employee Assistance Program.
Medical Screening.
Long-Service Awards.
Various Paid Time Off options including Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, and Gazetted Public Holidays.
About the Business:-
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world
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Skills Required
- Demonstrated ownership of overall product quality and quality practices across development and testing activities
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, software development lifecycle, and process improvement
- Strong Java programming experience for designing and maintaining automation solutions
- Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and scaling automated functional, integration, and regression test suites
- Ability to learn new tools and technologies, including Kafka, Databricks, and Spark
- Ability to define test strategies and comprehensive functional, integration, and edge-case scenarios
- Experience testing microservices and distributed system architectures
- Strong SQL knowledge
- Working knowledge of AWS or another cloud platform
- Understanding of CI/CD integration, such as GitHub Actions
- Experience participating in pull request reviews for test automation code quality and maintainability
- Strong analytical, research, and root cause analysis skills
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience supporting end-to-end and integration testing across multiple systems and domains
- Experience testing event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging platforms
- Exposure to data engineering, data quality testing, Parquet, XML, JSON, or large-scale datasets
- Familiarity with schema validation approaches such as SHACL
- Understanding of Spark jobs or distributed data processing environments such as EMR
- Hands-on Databricks experience including notebooks and job orchestration
- Experience monitoring applications and analyzing logs with New Relic or similar observability tools
- Experience with Docker or other containerization technologies
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.






