Quality Engineer

Business Unit / Team: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £41,600 - £62,400 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Contract Type: Permanent

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Our Team
Exciting opportunities exist within our data engineering Team right now.
We are looking for a best in class Quality Engineer to join our Test Platform Chapter working within the Data Engineering team. You'll be embedded in our tribes/squads structure drive best in class test automation that complements our development approach. You will work collaboratively with our testing teams to review our manual testing packs and migrate this effort to an automated testing pipeline. You will develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet stakeholder needs as well as track and improve quality metrics to demonstrate the benefits of an automated first approach.

What you'll be doing
• Working with engineering leads; product owners and other competency chapter leads to understand the CIO & tribe priorities.
• Working as a team you will facilitate the best solution and help prioritise the backlog for the tribe which will demonstrate the most relevance for our colleagues and customers.
• identify technical impediments and working directly to resolve these.
• Work with tribe members to support and educate on quality first principles, whilst facilitating CI/CD.

We need you to have
• practical experience with a proven track record of success in Test Automation (with hands-on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin)
• Experience of working in an agile environment with knowledge testing fundamentals such as BDD, TDD and Scrum
• Deep knowledge and insights into testing best practices and implementation of unit, functional, integration, regression, tooling and frameworks covering functional requirements
• Previous experience of working as a part of a Scrum team, in shaping User Stories and identifying acceptance criteria and key test scenarios
• Experience in Sql query language and data queries
• Proven ability to produce and automate appropriate test artefacts i.e. test plans, approaches, summary reports
• Clear understanding of how data impacts IT systems and services

It's a bonus if you have but not essential
• A good working knowledge of Customer Data Management Solutions
• Highly effective communication skills working with all levels of the organisation
• Relentless focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money', underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.