Davra Senior QA Engineer / SDET

Davra Senior QA Engineer / SDET (Hybrid Role)

Why this role exists

Davra’s platform is moving faster, and quality has to move with it. You’ll own QA across both surfaces of our business: our core IoT platform (cloud, edge, infrastructure) and the customer-specific deployments our Services team delivers. Releases are getting more frequent on both sides, and the discipline of QA itself is changing. AI-native testing is moving from experiments into production at the platforms that are ahead, and we want Davra to be one of them.

This is an SDET-oriented role: we expect you to write production-quality test code, build and maintain automation frameworks, and instrument the platform as an engineer, not just verify it as a tester. You’ll bring practical AI-driven workflows into how we test, advance how we measure and improve test coverage, and contribute to growing the QA function alongside platform growth. You’ll work alongside platform engineering, product, and our Services team.

This role is flexible: a minimum of one day per week in our Dublin office, and you’re welcome to work from the office full-time if you prefer. Anything in between is fine.

The mission

Advance Davra’s QA capability as an SDET: engineer-grade automation, practical AI in the loop, deeper test coverage across our platform and customer projects, and quality signals the business can rely on.

What you’ll deliver

In your first 90 days: You’ll have a thorough understanding of our seven testing surfaces (functional API, functional UI, performance, unit, chaos, penetration, security), contributed meaningfully to the QA roadmap, and be executing autonomously on your assigned surfaces.

By six months: Customer-facing quality indicators are trending the right way, automation coverage has extended into your priority surfaces, and AI-driven workflows are operating in your area of ownership with measurable impact.

By end of year one: Automation coverage is scaled across the surfaces you own in line with the roadmap, AI is woven through the QA workflows that benefit from it (with engineering hours saved that you can point to), and your work is setting a quality standard others build on.

Always: You’re a trusted voice on release readiness. You contribute QA data, risks, and coverage metrics clearly to the team and to the QA Lead.

Quietly, in the background: QA practices align cleanly with our ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 commitments without the team feeling they’re filling in forms.

What you’ll find here

You’ll join an established QA function. Davra has been delivering enterprise IoT software for almost 15 years, with process, structure, and a QA team in place. What we want is someone who can push it forward into a new phase: deeper automation, AI-driven QA workflows, and continued growth alongside the platform.

Your first job is to get across the terrain. You’ll understand the QA priorities across engineering, product, and Services, taking stock of where to push forward fastest and where the function is already strong. We operate across cloud, on-prem, and IoT edge, which makes end-to-end testing technically interesting and demanding in ways that typical SaaS QA isn’t.

You’ll report into the Engineering Lead and work directly with platform engineering, the Services team delivering customer projects, and product. Standups, refinement sessions, and roadmap reviews are rooms you’re in. The on-call rota for QA is one week in seven.

Who we think you are

Where we name specific tools below, treat them as examples of the work, not as a checklist. Adjacent stacks are fine.

You’ve operated QA at scale: You’ve worked in QA at a platform with multiple deployment surfaces. You can describe the trade-offs between automation and manual testing, and you have real opinions about what works.

You’ve brought AI into QA for real: You’ve implemented and operated AI-assisted testing, agentic workflows, or multi-step AI orchestration in commercial software delivery. You work day-to-day with Claude (our default at Davra), ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, or similar AI tools. Not just MVPs or certifications. You can point to outcomes.

You build automation in code, not low-code — you think like an SDET: You’ve designed and built automation frameworks from scratch, written test code that engineers respect, and integrated suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar). Your stack includes tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or pytest for UI, and RestAssured, Postman/Newman, or equivalent for API. You treat test code with the same rigour as production code: reviewed, versioned, and maintainable. Record-and-replay tools alone aren’t enough.

You’ve owned performance and resilience testing: You’ve designed and run load, stress, endurance, and spike testing using tools like k6, Gatling, JMeter, or Locust. You can explain when each test type matters, what signals you’re looking for, and how you tune for an IoT platform that ingests at scale.

You’ve practised chaos engineering for real: You’ve used Chaos Monkey, Litmus, or equivalent tooling, designed fault-injection and failure-mode tests, and validated platform resilience under realistic disruption. For a platform spanning cloud, on-prem, and IoT edge, this is as critical as functional testing, not a nice-to-have.

You’re confident with the senior leadership: You’ve presented QA strategy, metrics, and risks to executive audiences and made it land. You communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders with equal clarity.

You collaborate well and grow others: You share knowledge, document what you learn, and raise the quality bar for the people around you. You don’t hoard context.

You calibrate communication to audience and circumstance: You know when to write it down, when to talk face-to-face, when to escalate, and when to wait. You’ve built communication habits in hybrid or flexible-working teams that keep everyone aligned without overwhelming them.

You’re calm under release pressure: When something’s about to ship and there’s ambiguity about whether it should, you bring clarity rather than anxiety.

Helpful extras

IoT or edge experience: Knowing the quirks of devices, protocols, and intermittent connectivity will save you ramp-up time.

Industrial customer exposure: Manufacturing, energy, transport. Customers whose downtime costs them money.

ISO 27001 / SOC 2 audit experience: You’ve been through an audit and have practical opinions on QA’s role in it.

Open-source contribution or community presence: You’ve contributed to a QA tool, framework, or library, or shared what you’ve learned at a meetup or conference.

ISTQB or similar: Useful, not required. If your background is more SDET than traditional QA, that’s equally valid — what matters is that you can move fluently across both.

What it’s like to work at Davra

You’ll have meaningful influence on how QA evolves at Davra, with your work visible in the product and recognised across the team.

You’ll have real ownership of AI-driven QA workflows within your surfaces.

You’ll work on a platform that’s been in production with enterprise customers for years, in a domain where quality has real consequences.

Your work will be visible in the product and recognised across the company.

Flexible working: a minimum of one day per week in the Dublin office, with full-time office or anything in between welcome.

About Davra

Davra is a leading industrial Internet of Things (IoT) software company, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. We help organisations turn data from remote connected assets into real-time insight, and our platform has been consistently named one of the top IoT platforms globally by Gartner.

Equal opportunity

Davra is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from candidates of every background, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Compensation & Benefits

A competitive salary and performance bonus will be offered to the successful candidate, along with a comprehensive health benefits package.

How to apply

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We aim to respond to every candidate within two weeks.

Right to work

Applicants must have the right to work in Ireland. Davra is not currently able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.