QA Engineer
Hadean is a UK defence technology company providing AI-powered spatial computing, simulation, and command-and-control software for faster planning, training, and decision-making.
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About Hadean Supercomputing Ltd
Hadean Supercomputing Ltd develops AI-powered spatial computing and simulation products for defence, resilience, and other high-stakes operational environments. Its current product suite includes populAI for high-fidelity military training, rehearsal, and wargaming; dominAI for AI-enabled command-and-control, targeting, and course-of-action analysis; and optimAI for secure, air-gapped AI, intelligence, and assessment workflows. Hadean states that its software is used by defence organisations and militaries internationally.
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About the Role
As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Hadean, you will ensure the quality and reliability of the dominAI platform by embedding quality practices throughout development, defining acceptance criteria, creating test plans, building automated test suites, validating machine learning and LLM-based features, and managing Kubernetes-based test environments.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years experience as a QA engineer or analyst
- Strong experience in test planning and requirements analysis
- Solid experience in test automation for complex, distributed systems
- Experience testing front-end applications with React and TypeScript and back-end services with Node.js
- Experience setting up and managing test environments with Kubernetes
- Experience with QA for machine learning projects and automated testing for LLM-based technology
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
- Understanding of quality practices in an LLM-assisted team
- Ability to obtain and maintain Security Vetted status to at least SC level
Responsibilities
- Champion and implement QA best practices within the dominAI product team
- Collaborate with product managers and developers during story refinement to define clear and testable acceptance criteria
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for distributed systems
- Contribute to testing machine learning and LLM-based technologies
- Identify, triage, and resolve defects with the development team
- Manage and maintain testing environments and infrastructure using Kubernetes
- Drive continuous improvement of QA processes and automation frameworks
- Collaborate with other QA engineers to build a cohesive QA function
- Contribute to release planning and risk assessment
Benefits
- Hybrid working with 1 day per week in the Shoreditch office
- Private health insurance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave
- 3 extra days off at Christmas
- L&D budget
- Regularly scheduled socials
- Share options