Quality Engineer

Cambridge, United Kingdom
13 months ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Posted
6 Jun 2025 (13 months ago)

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Luminance, the pioneer of Legal-Grade™ AI for enterprise. Backed by internationally renowned VCs and named in both the Forbes AI 50 list of ‘Most Promising Private AI Companies in the World’ and Inc. 5000’s ‘Fastest Growing Companies in America’, Luminance is disrupting the legal profession around the globe.

Luminance is looking for conscientious and logical individuals to join our new Quality team, who will play a foundational part in creating and maintaining a state-of-the-art Quality Assurance (QA) process; a process designed to ensure our product fulfils our users’ expectations and requirements. If you are excited about this role but your skill or experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Luminance we are dedicated to building and promoting an inclusive workplace where everyone can flourish. You might just be who we’re looking for, for this role or another – enthusiasm is by far the most important requirement for any applicant to Luminance!

Responsibilities

  • Asking the ‘What if?’ questions to ensure the software behaves correctly in all circumstances – applying a strong investigative mindset and skillset to uncover overlooked edge cases and user workflows
  • Writing tests to validate the end-to-end functionality of the product, using tools such as Cucumber, Cypress and Playwright
  • Understanding defects that occur: assisting in their resolution and extending QA systems to catch any future reoccurrence
  • Acting as a link between Development and Product teams: understanding product specifications and expected behaviour, and formalising these into testable units
  • Leading in the transition of our engineering towards automation as standard Designing and implementing new metrics to measure the quality of each release, including how well it performs on product systems
  • Working alongside Product teams to help expand our product specification documents, especially following resolution of a defect or for areas of the product with frequently misunderstood expected behaviour
  • Successful applicants will show a passion for this area of Software Development, a willingness to learn the requisite knowledge, and an inquisitive, logical mindset. Experience in investigating causes of defects in software products would be beneficial, but not required.

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