Software QA / Test Automation Engineer

Software QA / Test Automation Engineer


The Company 

Laerdal Medical is a world leader in healthcare education and resuscitation training that uses immersive technologies and data-centric insights to increase survival and improve healthcare quality. Our products and services are used by hospitals, ambulance services, first aid organizations, educational institutions, and others around the world. We are a dynamic and energetic organization consisting of people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds. Our goal is to help save one million more lives, every year, by 2030, and to do so in a sustainable way. 


About the role 

Do you have a passion for working with software quality? Would you like to work with cutting-edge technology and use your skills to develop world-leading medical training products, that genuinely make a difference? Come join us in Stavanger, Norway as our new Software QA / Test Automation Engineer and be part our vibrant international development team, which includes software developers, designers, and product manager.

Our primary product is a React web solution that aims to train 50 million people in first aid worldwide. This is done by having a core technology that is distributed in various ways around the world. You can see an example here: revivr.bhf.org.uk, here: revivr.bhf.org.uk/group or here: https://vimeo.com/932443874 . It uses new technology to enable the learners to get a life like practice.


Your role will be to ensure we can maintain high quality in the product and deliver value to users in a quick and continuous manner. You will participate in transitioning into more test automation to achieve this. You will help set the best practices for ensuring quality by identifying bugs and suggesting improvements.


Some of what you will be doing

- Collaborate with developers and designers to understand requirements and defects found

- Create, execute, and maintain a test automation suite

- Collaborate with developers to integrate unit, integration, and functional tests in CI/CD

- Perform manual test case design and hands-on execution

- Manage defects and troubleshoot and investigate root causes

- Document quality and conduct static code analysis

- Interact at a cross-functional level to achieve optimal solutions

- Ensure continuous deployment across multiple sites to deliver a safe product with excellent quality.

- Explore and keep up to date with new technologies.


About you

You are a talented and passionate Software QA/Test Automation Engineer. You are used to working across disciplines and have good communication and interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and capable of going beyond requirements to find inaccuracies. 


Preferred qualifications and experience: 

- A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree within Computer Science or similar

- 3 years’ experience as Software QA/Test Automation Engineer is preferred

- Experience with test automation, API testing and BDD/TDD is a benefit

- Knowledge of test methodology (ISTQB, TMap®) is a benefit

- Experience with test automation and API testing using any of the following:

- Jest, Selenium, BrowserStack, Cypress, Enzyme, Robot framework, Karate++

- Good technical skills

- Experience in agile methodologies such as Scrum / Kanban

- Have an understanding of CI/CD build pipelines

- Some knowledge of static code analysis tool such as SonarQube / SonarCloud or Veracode


Some of what we can offer you 

At Laerdal, you will get the opportunity to learn, develop, and innovate and you will be a part of a local and international working environment where the possibility to make an impact is endless.


- An interesting and important job contributing to our purposeful mission

- Great opportunities for growth and personal development

- A multicultural office environment and collaboration with strong team in Stavanger and 26 locations around the world

- A creative, diverse, and inclusive organization

- A job in a company driving forward-thinking technology

- Competitive salary, pension scheme, and insurance

- An extensive welfare program with company benefits such as discounted public transport, indoor bicycle garage, and workshop, wardrobe with towel service, social and sports groups, company cabins, and more


For more information about the position, contact Ottar Skeide (+47 400 12 147)


To apply for the role please send us your CV, education documents and application letter through our application portal by 19.06.24


We look forward to hearing from you!


Please note that we use Semac background checks in the final stages our recruitment process.