Test Engineer

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future.

We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries.

We are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space for everyone to feel safe and valued and empowered with the right tools and support.

Whether you want to pursue excellence in your specialism or broaden your experience with flexible roles across our business, you’ll be connected to a community of global experts championing you to be your best. Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

Role purpose

Working as a Test Engineer within our enterprise wide business platforms, you will join our growing team focused on modernising Mott MacDonald’s delivery to our colleagues & clients through cross-cutting technologies and best practices.

As a Test Engineer, you will be collaborating with our software engineering team(s) & vendors to further improve the quality of our products and keep a mindful eye on how we can make them even better.

Key responsibilities

The specific duties include:

• Work with our business stakeholders, software engineering teams & vendors to ensure requirements are understood, achievable, and tested

• Investigate and debug difficult problems, and help drive them to closure

• Evaluating adequacy and quality assurance standards

• Creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases (end-to-end)

• Estimating, prioritising, planning and coordinating testing activities

• Identifying, recording, documenting in detail and tracking identified bugs

• Performing regression testing following the resolution of bugs through the designing, developing and executing automated scripts

• Tracking quality assurance metrics

• Contributing to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation

• Be a proactive proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.

Key skills

Skills:

• Good knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

• Experience in writing comprehensive test plans and test cases

• Experience in Test Case Management Tools (e.g. TestRail), Defect Management Tools (e.g. DevOps, Jira)

• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and knowledge of BDD test automation frameworks (e.g. Specflow, TestNG)

• Interest in GUI (e.g. Selenium) and API testing

• Interest in SOA architectures and micro-services

• Interest in Machine Learning

Experience

The successful candidate will be able to show work product from this period The candidate should have proven work experience in software quality assurance.

• University Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• Self-motivated with passion for quality

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent knowledge of QA methodologies - writing test plans and test cases

• Experience in cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data)

• One+ years of experience of software QA and automation testing experience

• Able to execute automated tests, understand the code and prioritize any failures

Flexible working

At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing

Employment Compliance Requirement

As part of our global compliance requirements, all candidates must hold a valid Right to Work (RTW) document in India, which will be verified during the recruitment process.

Acceptable documents include a Passport, Voter ID, or Birth Certificate.

By applying, you confirm that you can provide valid documentation if and when required.