Senior Test Engineer

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Test Engineer to join one of our dynamic engineering teams. You’ll collaborate closely with the Test Engineering Lead, Engineering Lead, Engineers, fellow Test Engineers, and the Product Management team to drive the quality of our products.

In this role, you’ll be primarily responsible for ensuring the ongoing quality and reliability of the software powering our flagship ResourceLink application. ResourceLink is a vital tool used by HR and Payroll professionals to manage their daily tasks, making it essential for our users’ efficiency and success.

As part of your onboarding, you will be expected to gain a deep understanding of how ResourceLink supports key HR and Payroll processes. Over the first 6-12 months, you’ll become familiar with the system’s core functionalities to better assess quality and contribute to its continuous improvement.

In addition to hands-on testing, you will also play a key role in mentoring junior Test Engineers. By sharing your expertise, you’ll help enhance their skills in areas such as HR, Absence & Payroll systems, and advanced testing methodologies, contributing to their professional growth and the overall success of the team.

Role Accountabilities and Responsibilities

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the product areas managed by your team. Your work will include not only testing, but also assisting your colleagues by sharing functional knowledge, identifying areas for improvement, and enhancing test coverage based on post-release customer feedback.

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the product areas managed by your team. Your work will include not only testing, but also assisting your colleagues by sharing functional knowledge, identifying areas for improvement, and enhancing test coverage based on post-release customer feedback.

You will:

• Report directly to the Engineering Lead while working closely with the Lead Test Engineer to ensure alignment on testing objectives.
• Ensure compliance with established testing standards when creating and updating Test Cases in Azure DevOps.
• Analyse test results, review test data, and identify bugs, ensuring all issues are resolved before product release.
• Assist in regression planning, providing accurate effort estimates for testing activities.
• Develop high-level test plans for epics, ensuring the test data requirements are well defined and understood.
• Promote best practices in testing and stay current with the latest testing tools and methodologies.
• Regularly communicate with the team, Product Management, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to ensure design and solution alignment while working on epics.

Skills & experience

• Extensive experience in software testing methodologies, with a strong background in manual testing.
• Proven expertise in test planning and strategy to ensure effective test coverage and issue identification.
• Experience with Azure DevOps for managing test cases, tasks, and defects or a similar platform
• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies and working within Agile frameworks.
• Proficiency in Gherkin Syntax for writing test cases in plain language, making them easily understandable to all team members.
• Experience with scripting automation (e.g., RF, Cucumber).

Non-Technical Requirements:

• In-depth knowledge of UK & ROI HR and Payroll systems, particularly in a software/service context.
• Experience working as an HR/Payroll operator or manager, or significant exposure to HR & Payroll processes.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to mentor and guide testers to help them grow professionally.
• Effective communication skills to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent analytical skills to troubleshoot and resolve complex testing issues.
• Keen attention to detail to ensure comprehensive test coverage and issue detection.
• Transparency in reporting issues and progress to stakeholders.
• Flexibility and the ability to respond to change effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Willingness to give and receive feedback to support continuous improvement.
• Ability to investigate problems thoroughly and propose innovative solutions.
• Capacity to work under pressure while maintaining a high standard of quality and performance.
• Strong decision-making ability, with the right priorities in mind to balance quality and deadlines.
• Adherence to company policies, rules, and regulations, always ensuring compliance.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.