Software QA Engineer

About the role

You will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of a desktop healthcare application by performing functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing throughout the software development lifecycle. You will work closely with developers and product owners to identify defects early, verify software behaviour, and help deliver high-quality software to customers. This role focuses primarily on manual testing. Candidates with UI test automation experience will have the opportunity to maintain and enhance existing automated test suites, as well as contribute new automated tests where appropriate.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse business requirements, user stories, and technical specifications to understand system behaviour
• Design, create, execute, and maintain manual test cases and test scenarios
• Perform smoke testing, functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, and exploratory testing
• Verify bug fixes and perform impact analysis
• Investigate customer reported issues and reproduce defects
• Work closely with developers to troubleshoot software issues
• Log, track, and verify defects using the project management system
• Participate in sprint planning and other Agile ceremonies
• Maintain test documentation and improve test coverage over time
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes and testing standards
• Maintain and update existing UI automated tests
• Develop new automated UI tests for suitable functional areas
• Investigate automation failures and update test scripts when application changes occur
• Support continuous improvement of the automation test suite
• Identify suitable functional areas for automation and collaborate with the QA team to expand automation coverage

About you

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years in Software Quality Assurance
• Good understanding of QA methodologies, testing principles and software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experience testing Windows desktop or enterprise applications
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to work independently and manage testing tasks within project timelines
• Experience maintaining or contributing to UI test automation is an advantage
• Experience using defect management tools (e.g. JIRA)
• Basic SQL knowledge for data verification and troubleshooting
• Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git)
• Experience with UI test automation tools (e.g. TestComplete, WinAppDriver, Playwright, Selenium or similar)
• Basic programming or scripting skills in Python (preferred) or other programming languages used for automation (e.g. Java, C#)
• Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Action

About us

Fleischhacker LLP is the overseas branch of Fleischhacker GmbH & Co. KG, a company specialising in medical and laboratory technology with substantial experience in international aid. Started as a medical software development company focusing on in-house medical software, from specialized medical connections to the management of workflows in hospitals and field medicine. Located in Schwerte, Germany, Fleischhacker GmbH & Co. KG predominantly supplies hospitals, GPs' surgeries, emergency services and corporations in Germany. Since 2007, Fleischhacker has been distributing its MediConnect® software – a comprehensive solution for the management of clinical processes in hospitals and in GPs' surgeries.