Responsibilities
1. Design and execute both automated and manual tests, ensuring software meets functional and non-functional requirements.
2. Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure quality is built in from the start.
3. Guide teams in test planning and execution, ensuring coverage for performance, security, accessibility, and usability.
4. Foster a quality-first mindset, mentoring engineers on best practices in testing, CI/CD, and automation.
5. Develop and maintain automated test suites, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines to accelerate feedback loops.
6. Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability concerns, ensuring the best customer experience.
7. Advocate for service reliability and real-world testing scenarios, considering performance under load, failover conditions, and system resilience.
8. Write clear and reproducible defect reports and contribute to technical documentation.
9. Take a polyglot approach to testing tools, selecting the best frameworks for different tech stacks and projects.
10. Continuously improve QA processes, sharing knowledge with the wider team and driving quality initiatives.
About the candidate
11. Experience in manual and automated testing, with an understanding of when to apply each.
12. Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools (, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jest, JUnit, Postman, or similar).
13. Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing.
14. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think like a customer, ensuring usability and accessibility.
15. Experience working in agile environments, embedding testing within cross-functional teams.
16. A proactive mindset, always looking for ways to improve quality and streamline testing processes.
17. Strong collaboration and coaching skills, with the ability to mentor engineers on best practices in quality.
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Our benefits
There's more to working life thaning home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
We'remitted to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and wees enquiries from everyone.
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