Senior Software Test Engineer

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

We embrace the power to lead , the courage to innovate , and the determination to grow . At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation , we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About the Opportunity

As a Test Engineer, your core responsibility is to ensure the quality and reliability of our custom software solutions through comprehensive manual and automated testing. You will play a vital role in supporting our higher education customers by delivering consistent, high-quality outcomes that align with their needs. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams including developers, consultants, and business analysts to verify that every feature functions as intended.

You will also be instrumental in identifying and analyzing defects, contributing to continuous improvement in our QA processes, and leveraging modern tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, and Postman. Your work will help maintain high standards of software performance, security, and usability across projects. As part of the Quality Assurance team, your efforts will directly influence customer satisfaction and the success of every deployment.

Where you will make an impact

• Lead workstreams within an overall project transparently and productively, applying standard practices.
• Quality Assurance of service delivery and deployment of our Custom Software Solution Development services through planned engagements with our higher education customers.
• Collaborate with consulting teams and peers to ensure customer and Ellucian project expectations are exceeded.
• Work with a dynamic team of developers and other peers to build and test the application according to the prepared specifications
• Ability to deconstruct complex issues to identify root cause issues
• Stay current with Ellucian applications. Have an aptitude to learn new technologies quickly

What will you bring

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