Software Test Engineer

Job Description

One of my client. is expanding its consumer business with the launch of a new digital bank in the UK. In doing so, they are offering consumers a completely new banking choice. Using the Chase brand, the bank is providing products and features tailored to meet the needs of customers in the U.K., delivered via an innovative mobile app.

They are building cloud native platform, relying on cutting edge technology and seek full stack minded engineers.

Their team is at the heart of building this new venture, focused on developing offerings that put the customer at the center. They have created a new organization and they are looking for solution-oriented, commercially minded, customer-focused test engineers, used to working in an agile environment who want to be a part of building something new from the ground up within a diverse and inclusive team.

Culture is as important to us and they are looking for intellectually curious, new technology passionate individuals who would like to expand their skills whilst working on a new exciting venture for the firm. Your work will have a massive impact, both on us as a company, as well as our clients and our business partners around the world.

They are looking for a Software Test Engineer that can help their teams deliver enhanced quality by ensuring the delivery of effective and efficiency test automation practice across the teams.

As a Software Test Engineer you will be responsible for:

 

• Being part of a squad and work on the sprint deliverables
• Developing and executing test strategies and test plans
• Automating tests and building sufficient and meaningful test coverage
• Developing from scratch or contributing to existing testing frameworks and test infrastructure
• Integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines
• Championing a test mindset across unit, integration, functional, non-functional testing
• Developing metrics and trend analysis for testing activities
• Triaging, analysing , and debugging issues and driving issues resolution with the team
• Initiating and completing test escape and root cause analysis, testing lessons learned
• Recommending test process improvements and defect prevention actions
• Working with teams in multiple locations in different time zones, review code PRs from the wider team.
  
   

Minimum Qualifications

 

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing automated testing frameworks and validation tools for mobile applications
  
   

Preferred Skills/Qualifications

 

• Strong programming skills in Java (additional experience in Javascript is a bonus)
• Previous experience in application development is desireable
• Experience building testing frameworks, tools and automation
• Mobile test automation using tools such as Cucumber, Appium, and Detox
• Mobile application and mobile browser testing on physical devices and simulators running on both iOS and Android platforms
• Experience with (incl. setting up and troubleshooting) distributed test execution on the remote grid of devices
• Experience with (incl. setting up and troubleshooting) mobile applications build and deployment pipelines
• Experience with mobile application related non-functional testing e.g. accessibility, client side performance testing
• Proven experience in all aspects of functional, integration and regression testing
• Clean coding and adherence to the software engineering best practices (DRY, SOLID, etc.) with a focus on scalable and maintainable test execution infrastructure
• Familiarity with the Atlassian toolset
• Exposure to web technologies (e.g. HTTP, XML, REST, HTML, JS REACT, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge and experience working in an Agile environment.