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About The Business
With more than 10,000 global customers, Brightmine, formerly XpertHR, is a leading provider of people data, analytics and insight for the HR sector. We help HR leaders confidently navigate the evolving world of work through our unique combination of critical workforce data, AI‑enabled technology and trusted HR expertise. At the same time, we’re creating an inclusive, people‑focused environment of our own—an environment where individuals with ambition, curiosity and ideas can make an impact, think big, aim high and explore more.
About Our Team
Our team is composed of highly motivated and enthusiastic QA engineers, full‑stack developers, data engineers and business analysts, all leveraging the Microsoft stack for application development and data engineering. We specialise in building highly scalable data solutions that enable seamless data sharing with a variety of customers. Additionally, we collaborate closely with Data Operations, Data Science, SREs and Product Management to ensure robust, efficient and high‑quality data products. Operating in a fast‑paced agile environment, we prioritise speed and agility while maintaining high standards of quality. Our team is geographically distributed but works seamlessly together, fostering effective collaboration to design, develop and deliver innovative solutions.
The successful candidate will coach and develop a team of 5 other QAs to drive process improvements and implement best practice.
About The Role
A Principal QA role on a data platform data engineering team is responsible for leading the quality assurance function and ensuring the delivery of high‑quality software products. The role involves developing and executing automated and performance testing, defining objectives and roadmaps for QA, implementing quality metrics and owning QA end‑to‑end from discovery to delivery. The Principal QA collaborates with cross‑functional teams to plan and conduct testing, ensures that testing addresses requirements, identifies cost‑effective tools to enhance testing and product quality, investigates and resolves performance problems, leads continuous improvement initiatives and implements best practices.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At RELX, we are committed to advancing gender diversity within the technology sector and supporting greater representation of women in tech.
* Women in Technology (WiT) Mentoring Program – a program tailored to enhance career development for female talent in tech roles across all our businesses.
* Women’s Network Forum – dedicated forums that foster community, mentorship and professional growth for women.
* Inspiring Future Talent – we actively engage with schools and host events to inspire young females to consider and pursue careers in technology.
Responsibilities
* Leading development and execution of automated and performance testing for large or multiple diverse projects.
* Leading the QA function, defining objectives and QA roadmaps.
* Suggesting, implementing and tracking quality metrics (e.g., code coverage).
* Owning QA end‑to‑end from discovery to delivery and beyond.
* Creating automation frameworks from scratch to test a diverse set of software from typical web applications (frontend, REST APIs) to data platforms (e.g., ADFs, Databricks).
* Collaborating with teams to plan and conduct automated and performance testing for quality assurance.
* Ensuring that testing addresses requirements as agreed with other stakeholders.
* Leading initiatives to identify and implement cost‑effective tools to enhance testing and product quality.
* Collaborating with IT professionals to investigate and resolve performance problems.
* Leading continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices.
Requirements
* Possess extensive expertise in Quality Test Engineering gained from over a decade of experience.
* Have an Engineering/Computer Science B.S. or equivalent experience.
* Experience leading, coaching or line‑managing other QAs to drive improvements in the function (e.g., adopting new tools and process enhancements).
* Able to automate using tools/frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium/Webdriver.
* Able to code in programming languages such as Python (including OOP), TypeScript/JavaScript, C#.
* Experience with CI/CD systems such as TeamCity, Jenkins.
* Experience with containerisation, Azure services (Azure Service Bus, Function Apps, ADFs).
* Knowledge of data‑related technologies: Data Warehouse, Snowflake, ETL, data pipelines, PySpark, Delta tables, file formats (Parquet, columnar).
* Strong understanding of SQL and stored procedures.
* Ability to lead development and execution of performance and automation testing for large‑scale projects.
* Experience administering testing tool environments.
* Ability to work within established budgets.
* Comprehensive understanding of industry trends.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology; Software Development
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