Are you ready to own quality end-to-end? 

Will you be able to scale test automation fast? 

About our Team: 
Mendeley is revolutionising how research is done, by providing researchers and academics with productivity tools that help to drive science forwards. We have world-class technology and award-winning products that our customers love - with millions of active users and a crowd-sourced library of 2 billion user documents we need to handle huge volumes of data and give our users instant and intuitive access to it as they perform research, learning or tuition. Our mission is to help accelerate research in science, technology and medicine through reference management technology and facilitating knowledge discovery and sharing. 

About the role: 

As a Quality Test Engineer III, you are passionate about delivering high-quality software to customers while enabling teams to move quickly and confidently. You take ownership of quality across the development lifecycle and bring a proactive, technical approach to testing, automation, and continuous improvement. 

You understand that shipping high-quality software starts with clear and well-defined requirements, and you actively collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure quality is built into every stage of development. You are confident engaging with customers and stakeholders, helping shape requirements, and driving best practices in testing and quality engineering. 

At this level, you bring strong technical expertise, automation experience, and problem-solving ability, and you contribute to improving test frameworks, processes, and overall quality strategy across the team. 

Responsibilities:

• Drive the delivery of high-quality software for our customers in an efficient and scalable way 

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define quality requirements and acceptance criteria 

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and pipelines across functional and non-functional testing 

• Implement automation strategies across the CI/CD pipeline to improve coverage, reliability, and speed of delivery 

• Perform API, integration, and system testing, ensuring services behave reliably at scale 

• Analyse test results, logs, and system behaviour to identify root causes of defects and recommend solutions 

• Champion quality engineering best practices within the team and contribute to improving testing processes and tooling 

• Support and mentor more junior quality engineers where appropriate 

• Collaborate closely with customers and stakeholders to gather feedback and continuously improve product quality 

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years experience in Quality Engineering or Software Testing 

• Strong experience in test automation (ideally using JavaScript/Typescript or similar languages) 

• Experience designing and maintaining automated test frameworks (seleniumJS, Playwright) 

• Strong understanding of API testing and automation (Postman, REST clients, or similar tools) 

• Solid understanding of functional and non-functional testing practices 

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests 

• Experience with Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) practices and frameworks 

• Familiarity with source control systems (Git or similar) 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across team

• Exposure to testing AI-driven features or systems, including validating machine-learning outputs or working with AI-assisted development workflows 

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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. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.