Test Engineer - Maternity Cover - SCI

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Test Engineer to join our global team.

Team and Role Purpose

The IT function enables Save the Children International to achieve its mission through the delivery, support and continuous improvement of technology products, platforms and services used globally across country offices, regional offices and centres. The team provides reliable, secure and scalable digital solutions that support programme delivery, fundraising, operational excellence and organisational effectiveness.

Role purpose

This role will be responsible for the quality assurance of application releases through thorough execution of integration, functional and regression testing of SCI’s core business applications minimizing bugs, issues and failures being identified post release. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving multiple test frameworks, the creation of manual and automated test cases, performance testing and integration testing.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Product development, you will be responsible for communicating all test progress and outlining any improvements to process. Although you will have no direct line reports, the role will incorporate the mentoring of local and global peers, promoting a testing culture, transparency and the importance of good practices.

This role must expect hands-on defining, generating and executing test scripts as required to fulfil the testing requirements.

• Job Title: Test Engineer
• Reports To: Senior Manager, Product Development
• Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
• Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers
• Required Time Zone: Any
• Contract Length: Fixed Term Contract (14 months maternity leave cover)
• Right to Work: The successful candidate must have the right to work in the country where the role is based, for the duration of employment.
• Language Requirements: English
• International Travel: up to 5%
• Remit: Global

Principal Accountabilities

• Partner with Project Managers, Developers, and Solution Architects to ensure test deliverables meet quality standards, project requirements, and agreed timelines.
• Define, document, and maintain testing strategies, plans, scenarios, test cases, and test scripts to support comprehensive test coverage across projects and releases.
• Lead the execution of functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing using both manual and automated testing approaches to ensure release readiness.
• Analyse test results and provide quality assessments and release recommendations, enabling informed go/no-go decisions for production deployments.