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Crane Authentication (NXT)

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

United Kingdom
Posted about 17 hours ago
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As a partner to businesses and governments, Crane Authentication offers expertise and cutting-edge innovations that protect and enhance products, secure identities, safeguard revenues, and enforce compliance. Customers from different business sectors and levels of government trust our team of 1,250 people for their expertise in R&D, security design, engineering, and data-driven insights. We are an integral part of Crane NXT, a $2 billion dollar business with over 5,000 associates

Essential Functions Performed by the Position

  • Partner with Engineering and Tech Leads to design for quality. Your focus is on preventing defects rather than detecting them later in the life cycle
  • Review test coverage across all layers (unit, integration, contracts, and end-to-end) to ensure meaningful, maintainable tests
  • Contribute hands-on to raise the Quality bar across multiple teams
  • Comfortable and experienced setting up and amending frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
  • Collaborate with Delivery and Product to define ‘what good looks like’
  • Own quality metrics
  • Lead initiatives around quality tooling, test data, environments, performance, and security testing
  • Develop and articulate comprehensive testing strategies for new features, products, or system enhancements.
  • Apply design thinking principles to testing—understanding user needs, identifying potential pain points, and ensuring end-to-end quality.
  • Identify and document edge cases, with a focus on system scalability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate closely with development and product teams to ensure early defect detection and smooth release cycles.
  • Utilize and maintain QA tooling and automation frameworks to enhance testing coverage and efficiency.
  • Track and report on quality metrics, demonstrating measurable improvements such as reduced defect leakage, faster release cycles, and improved customer satisfaction.

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Position Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. A master’s degree is a plus.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in Quality Assurance or a related role, with a strong background in test strategy, automation, and quality engineering across complex systems.
  • Strong expertise in modern testing tools and technologies, including Playwright, Cypress, Postman, and C#.
  • Exposure to performance and security testing is a plus.
  • Experience with pair programming is preferred, demonstrating collaborative development and testing practices.
  • Proficient in using collaboration and project management tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Jira.

Certifications/Licenses:

Any professional testing certification is a plus.

Language Proficiency:

Possess effective communication skills in English, both written and verbal (for non-English speaking count

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Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • You are technically astute and comfortable writing code
  • You see yourself as a partner in Engineering, not a gatekeeper
  • You’re curious, pragmatic, and proactive in raising the quality bar across teams
  • You are experienced in coaching and mentoring QAs and Engineers alike in quality practices

Crane Authentication is part of Crane NXT

Crane NXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. Crane NXT has approximately 5,000 employees with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Malta. For more information, visit www.cranenxt.com.

We value diversity at our company.

Everyone who applies with the qualifications will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, colour, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We receive a high number of applications, so apologies if we are unable to provide specific feedback. If we feel you are a fit for the role, we’ll be in contact.

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Skills

Quality Assurance
Test Strategy
Automation
Quality Engineering
Performance Testing
Security Testing
Collaboration
Project Management
C#
Playwright
Cypress
Postman
CI/CD
Coaching
Mentoring
Design Thinking

Location

United Kingdom

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