About the role DroneShield is seeking a hands-on QA Software Engineer to support quality assurance for the Access Portal – our global, customer-facing web platform used for device management, configuration, software distribution, and operational visibility. This role focuses on validating modern web applications, APIs, backend services, and secure identity-driven workflows. You will work across the full stack of the platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across user interfaces, automation pipelines, and distributed services. A key focus of this role is workload automation - embedding automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, improving regression coverage, validating release workflows, and reducing manual effort through intelligent test design. You will help scale quality practices in line with rapid product growth, ensuring repeatable, reliable releases. You will collaborate closely with Full Stack Engineers, Backend/API Engineers, DevOps, and Product to support high-quality, frequent releases in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is pragmatic, automation-minded, and comfortable taking ownership of testing activities end-to-end. You should be confident designing automated test coverage, identifying risk areas early, and contributing to a culture where quality is built into the development lifecycle rather than inspected at the end. Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations Design, execute, and maintain manual and automated tests across web UI, APIs, and backend services. Validate authentication, authorisation, and role-based access control workflows. Plan and execute functional, integration, regression, and release test cycles. Contribute to and extend automated test frameworks for frontend and API testing. Support CI/CD-driven testing and ensure quality gates are embedded into pipelines. Perform exploratory testing on new features and customer-facing workflows. Create and maintain test cases, test data, and documentation in test management tools. Identify, log, and track defects, supporting engineers with reproducible steps and root cause analysis. Collaborate with engineering teams to improve observability, testability, and overall platform quality. Contribute to continuous improvement of QA standards, tooling, and processes. Qualifications, Experience and Skills 3–6 years of experience as a QA or Software Test Engineer in web or SaaS environments. Strong understanding of web application testing, API testing, and backend validation. Experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Pytest, or similar. Experience testing RESTful APIs using tools such as Postman, Insomnia, or automated frameworks. Programming or scripting experience in Python, JavaScript, or Go. Familiarity with CI/CD environments and containerised applications (e.g. Docker). Experience working with test management tools such as Xray, Zephyr, or QMetry. Strong analytical, debugging, and communication skills. Ability to plan and execute testing tasks independently while collaborating across teams. Experience testing secure or compliance-driven systems is desirable Exposure to identity management, RBAC, or multi-tenant platforms is desirable Experience with performance or load testing tools such as K6 is desirable Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (AWS) is desirable Exposure to audit logging, event-driven systems, or distributed architectures is desirable Note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed. 610
