Homeoffice QA Engineer

Please note that we are only able to progress applications from individuals located within the UK, EU or South Africa

We're pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity to join us at Voodoo Park. We're looking for a talented QA Engineer to work on new Fintech project. If you'd like the opportunity to join our exciting team and think you have the skills to match, then please get in touch!

The Quality Engineer is a role that is responsible for quality of the various aspects of product engineeringfrom inception to deployment and production support. By designing and building tests which are businessfacing, the role will support the engineering team with workflow changes and functional verification. Thisrole, in conjunction with one or more teams, also ensures robust quality by assessing usability, productbehaviour and non-functional considerations of delivered functionality in software. The QualityEngineer role will use a combination of manual and automation test capabilities and will have knowledgein UK financial services preferably within a Life and Health Protection domain.

The quality engineer role will combine manual and test automation engineering capabilities withleadership and behavioural attributes that focus on business outcomes delivered in a consistent way ofworking that drives the success of the business and its clients.

• Product Managers
• Product Engineering teams
• Product Support teams
• Information Security teams

• Ensures quality is "baked-in" to software by identifying and designing test cases for the system under test.
• Ensures quality is inspected appropriately using manual and automation testing techniques.
• Develops and implements test plans for each phase of the software development and manages test case traceability and documentation
• Participates and provides quality input into any requirements or analysis of solutions, features or non-functional requirements.
• Provides support for software or solutions. Takes initiative in troubleshooting even if they are not the 'primary' quality engineer and supports quick and effective resolution.
• Contributes positively to the team, provides relevant and appropriate inputs to enable effective team outcomes to be delivered.
• Ensures any key person risk is minimised by working with others, appropriately documenting and automating work.
• Effectively manages work, whether assigned or taken.
• Ensures dependencies, issues or risks on other teams are known and owns remediation of such.
• Must be able to work UK hours
• Excellent English language skills
• Happy to engage on B2B contract

• Experience working within a team, working on a single software product or component.
• Domain knowledge in (life & pensions)
• Has a growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge with a team, understands that growth comes from continuously developing through hard work.
• Will test the status quo and enjoys thinking about and implementing innovative ways to solve problems - and in doing this is not afraid to fail!
• Strong, multi-year experience as a member of teams working in Agile-based environments. Experience in collaborative delivery, working in co-located or remote team structures.
• Experience in end-to-end test engineering.
• Ability to use structured query languages to investigate database structures and identify test data.
• Experience with automation of scripting, testing and coding (tools such as Cypress/Playwright/Specflow preferable)
• Writing new C# coded tests
• Creating Gherkin syntax user tests
• Maintaining/developing underlying framework
• Test definition and implementation
• Experience utilising continuous delivery techniques to move software into production environments.
• Experience testing software in multiple operating environments.
• Considers commercial aspects of decisions across teams and when making or participating in design or implementation decisions.
  

• Recognise that leadership is different at every level.
• The continued growth of Iress requires winning and being the best at what we do.
• Leadership drives a winning culture.
• Leadership drives organisational excellence.

• Commitment and motivation to try different ideas, approaches and improve results.
• Focus on priority actions and work and know-how to add value.
• Reflect on how things are going, make time to think and consider better strategies.
• Use initiative, keen to demonstrate ownership and take accountability for work.

• Open, direct and respectful in communication.
• Value and appreciate diversity and the strength it creates.
• Recognise when to collaborate to get the best, or take action individually.
• See strength in others and seek ways to self-improve.
• Demonstrates a combination of personality traits (smart, innovative, low ego, collaborative, honest, of high integrity, intensity and passion).

• Put clients and users at the centre of everything - considers the impact of work on clients and users.
• Clear on goals and how to contribute to winning.
• Use data to drive decision making and continuously adapt to get the best results.

“Yoodoo” - You can go offline and spend 2 hours of your work time every week on any activity that serves your mental or physical health;

Minimum 6 Month Contract B2B

You will get 25 days paid Annual Leave per annum;

Additional paid day off for festivals, your birthday, any celebration;

Paid maternity leave;

Paid paternity leave;

Paid sick leave;

Remote working with the option of a co-working space if you would like to;

Union - who provide assistance and service to everyone at VDP

VDP was founded in 2012 and has teams across the globe, including UK, Europe, Africa, India and South East Asia.

Through our work, our values and our actions, we aim to be a force for good, not just for ourselves and our customers, but for our communities and the world at large;

We have four values that we all live by. These are Collaborate, Compassion, Honesty and Inclusion;

We also use our global network to support our charity, VDP Trust, to create a fairer world for women;