Senior Quality Engineer (QA)

Frontiers Media is one of the world’s largest and most impactful research publishers, dedicated to making peer-reviewed, quality-certified science openly accessible. They provide researchers with a trusted, cutting-edge, AI-powered open science platform covering approximately 1,700 academic disciplines and actively drive the global transition to open science.

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / QA roles
• Strong understanding of software testing and quality practices, with experience defining validation strategies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to understand the big picture of the system and analyse interactions between components, identifying risks, gaps, and potential failure points
• Experience with API testing (e.g. REST Assured, Postman), as well as integration and end-to-end testing
• Experience building and maintaining automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with performance testing (e.g. k6, JMeter)
• Curiosity and proactivity in adopting AI-assisted tools in day-to-day work

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with contract testing (e.g. Pact)
• Experience with modern test automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright)
• Experience in large-scale system migrations
• Experience with BDD practices and tools
• Comfortable reviewing pull requests and contributing to test code when needed

• Work with Engineers, Product Managers, and stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and consistent
• Define the validation strategy, deciding what needs to be validated, at which level, and how
• Define test scenarios covering key user flows and edge cases
• Identify risks and potential failure scenarios early, before development starts
• Review and challenge non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security) to ensure they are clear and measurable
• Ensure automated tests (API, integration, end-to-end) are in place and run in CI/CD pipelines to validate changes continuously
• Coordinate testing and validation activities across the team, ensuring quality checks are completed before changes are released
• Contribute to release readiness, supporting decisions on whether a change is ready to go live based on validation results
• Define and follow post-release checks, ensuring the system behaves as expected in production
• Use production data and quality signals (errors, logs, metrics, incidents) to improve validation strategies and prevent recurring issues
• Improve the team’s quality processes and metrics, using data to identify issues and drive improvements
• Support the team in improving testing practices and sharing ownership of quality
• Apply AI tools to support testing, validation, and analysis, and help the team use them effectively
• Contribute to the Quality Engineering community, sharing practices and helping evolve quality standards across teams

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation.