Quality Assurance Engineer

The Company

RightShip is the world's biggest third party maritime due diligence organization, providing expertise in global safety, sustainability and social responsibility best practices.

We bring together years of industry expertise with the output from analytics and large data sets to provide our safety and environmental scoring systems, recommendations and consultancy services.

Using leading data and technology, we aim to set new benchmarks in environmental protection. We support global initiatives and action influencing practical and impactful change, enabling "win-win" for business and the environment.

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What we offer

We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organization who are constantly working to ensure ships are safe as possible so that crew and cargo are protected. We are passionate about maritime efficiency, safety and sustainability practices.

We offer generous rewards. Our base salary is competitive, we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is awesome. We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way and we are committed to professional development to make sure your career keeps growing while you're working with us.

What makes RightShip a great place to work at:

RightShip is an equal opportunity employer, and we champion diversity. Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.

Don't meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At RightShip we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. We want to add team members who not only value RightShip standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to our work environment. If you are excited about this role, or about our company in general, we would love to hear from you

Permanent Full Time

Location: Gozo, Malta

As a Software QA Engineer, whilst being technical and hands-on capable, you will oversee and input to all aspects of quality assurance including applying industry best practices, developing new testing solutions and methods, and establishing metrics. Managing the successful delivery of projects will require you to plan, coordinate and lead activities across the full delivery lifecycle. This will include working closely with the department's Product Managers, coordinating with QA and developers, as well as liaising with key project stakeholders as required.

This role offers challenges across a wide variety of projects and responsibilities, including the opportunity to influence the future direction of the department and systems used across the business.

Major Responsibilities

• Follow and evolve QA processes to ensure the use of industry-accepted best practices.
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated) including regressions tests.
• Ensure effective and efficient application of test processes and tools using techniques such as White box, Grey Box, Black box, Test-to-Pass, Test-to-Fail and automation (if required)
• Collaborate with the team to establish and enhance UI automation practices, incorporating modern tools and frameworks as part of test strategies.
• Troubleshoot and investigate defects for the software applications.
• Report defects found during testing using Jira as a defect tracking tool.
• Conduct new functionality and regression tests, determine and report issues for follow-up.
• Collaborate with the business to assess or diagnose problems and suggest possible solutions.
• Support end users during User Acceptance Testing phase.
• Build and maintain good communication with all stakeholders involved in the SDLC while working close with them during the different phases.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 2 years working in a similar role
• Experience in software business analysis and/or software quality assurance.
• Experience in TestRail & JIRA
• Good understanding of using Postman or similar tools for testing APIs
• Experience with UI automation frameworks (experience with Playwright is a plus)
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and manage priorities effectively
• Ability to create future-proof reusable test cases
• Comfortable working with remote teams
• Excellent personal organisation and ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks
• Able to influence and drive projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges
• Possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment that supports production and maintenance level changes
• Comfortable working without routine supervision
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

RightShip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity, enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. You must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.