Job Description

R&D; Test Engineer performing as a technical expert in the design, development and maintenance of automated testing solutions to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our products.

The R&D; Test Engineer combines strong software development expertise with quality engineering practices and requires working closely with Developers, Product Managers/PMO, DevOps engineers, and QA teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements to define comprehensive test strategies. Ensure software meets quality, reliability, usability, and performance requirements;
• Design, develop and maintain automated test infrastructure/frameworks that improve productivity and quality. Improve test coverage through automation of functional, integration, regression and end-to-end test.
• Apply software engineering best practices, including coding standards, version control, and design patterns. Contribute to improving application testability and maintainability.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.



Support continuous integration and continuous testing initiatives. Improve release readiness through quality gates and automated validation processes.
• Collaborate in design, code reviews and inspections to ensure the testability of code and adherence to coding standards that facilitate automated testing.
• Create and maintain documentation related to automated test cases, test plans, and test results to support knowledge sharing and transparency.

Requirements & Specific Skills

Education: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Languages: Italian, English fluent

Experience: Around 1 to 3 years of experience in software automation testing, or software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Skills Preferred

• Experience with API testing, Java, Python, PlayWright, TypeScript, etc.,
• Experience in Linux, Git, JFrog, and/or CI/CD
• Knowledge of using AI-assisted coding and testin

📌 Test Engineer (Bologna)
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📍 Bologna