We founded Teckro to simplify and modernise clinical trials. In fact, thousands of clinical trial investigators and 27,000+ research sites around the world rely on Teckro, including studies from 12 out of the Top 20 pharma companies.

That’s where you come in. 

We’re offering you a role with purpose. We’ve come a long way since our initial start with a handful of employees in a small office in Limerick, Ireland. Now, our team is distributed across the United States, Europe and the UK. Your contribution at Teckro will lead to faster, safer and more efficient clinical trials. Quality of life will be improved. In the end, lives will be saved. Could you be our newest Teckronaut?  

Our technology stack:

- You’ll get to use the latest tech stack including; Kotlin, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Docker, REST APIs, Maven, Gradle, MySQL, Cassandra, Git, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, Datadog, AWS, Sonar

- Our Engineering Teams consist of highly skilled developers with a clear focus on engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

- We are open, adaptable, driven, and accountable.

- We work in highly agile, autonomous, multidisciplinary teams, implement CI/CD, trunk-based development and own our code from desktop to production.

The Role

• We are expanding our QA Engineering Team. As one of the members of the Comms team, you will have unique opportunity to work with highly skilled developers and to drive the direction of our technical journey
• As a Senior QA Engineer you will be working in a cross-functional Agile team alongside developers, product-owner and other quality engineers
• You will be hands-on in designing test cases from acceptance criteria and automating the designed test cases
• You will be a key person within the team for prioritising defects found and generating a testing report
• You will ensure that test automation is reducing the manual testing efforts by prioritising test cases to be automated

What You'll Do

• The ideal candidate for this role will take responsibility for the quality of their own deliverables, always striving to improve our products
• You will optimise for scalability, efficiency and maintainability in a practical way
• You must understand the need for software re-usability and have a strong customer and product focus
• We are looking for a team player and a natural leader, someone who has strong communication skills and can contribute ideas and solutions in group sessions
• You will be comfortable with mentoring, coaching and reviewing technical solutions provided by others
• You will have superior analytical, evaluative and problem-solving abilities
• You must be a hardworking, self-starter and self-driven with a proven ability to work efficiently and professionally in a fast-paced environment

he Ideal Candidate will have

• 6+ years hands-on software quality assurance experience
• Strong testing experience with web, mobile and API based applications
• Strong test automation experience with: Kotlin/Groovy/Java and one or more of IntelliJ, Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, Appium, Cucumber/Allure or similar, Git, Jenkins, Browserstack or similar, JMeter
• Ability to use TestRail or other test case management systems
• Ability to use different testing techniques as and when needed
• Understanding of non-functional testing, specifically performance and security 
• Ability to manage risk, when it relates to level of testing needed
• Takes ownership for the QA activities for the team, ability to work collaboratively and on your own initiative
• Experience working in Agile Scrum or Kanban
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent

Bonus Points for

• Experience working in a regulated/pharmaceutical industry or international, distributed and multi-site environments is an advantage
• Experience of coaching and leading more junior quality engineers
• ISTQB Foundation Level
• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent

Location and Travel

• Remote in Republic of Ireland or Hybrid (subject to government guidelines) which ever you prefer
• We also offer flexible start/ end times, allowing your schedule to suits your lifestyle

Teckro Benefits

• Pension
• Healthcare
• 25 days holidays
• Gym/Wellness Allowance
• Sports and Social Club
• Bike to Work/ Tax Saver Scheme
• Life Insurance
• Share Options
• Sick Pay Scheme
• 50% Maternity leave pay after capped length of service
• Paid Paternity leave scheme