Senior QA Engineer

Moneybox is the award-winning app that helps you turn your money into something greater. We’ve brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services all together into one simple app, so it’s easier than ever to achieve your goals and build wealth, whatever your starting point.

We are looking for a Senior QA engineer to join our team, who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. You will be working with a high calibre team to continuously develop new products/features.

What You’ll Do

As a key member of the QA team, you’ll help ensure the quality of Moneybox products, reporting into the Senior QA lead. Act as a point of contact and escalation for QA issues relating to your squad. Agree QA strategy on a project level, deciding on the types of QA activities required (incl. Integration, Automation, E2E, Live Proving, etc). Plan and organise QA activities within the squad (incl. organising Amigos & Test Plan reviews). This will include reviewing technical and business requirements and designing robust and reusable test scenarios. Execute QA activities, ensuring coordination and prioritisation of QA work. Support the organisational shift towards continuous testing delivery (incl. implementing automated testing frameworks). Assess feature suitability for test automation (incl. unit tests for developers, API integration tests and App UI tests). Manage releases for your squad (incl. management of feature flags). Log, prioritise and track bugs to completion, analysing live issues with a focus on continuous improvement. Maintain documentation related to QA activities. Create and maintain strong working relationships, collaborating predominantly with the Development, Product and UX teams to progress issues. Line management of QA team members in the squad, offering oversight and supporting career development. Serve as a role model by leading through example and actively contributing to squad and QA department ceremonies. Run squad ceremonies (incl. daily stand-ups, release planning, refinement sessions and retrospectives as required).

Who You Are

Someone who is excited about being part of a fast-growing Fintech company that’s trying to make a positive impact on how people grow their personal wealth. Show interest in the latest developments in technology and QA, with an excellent understanding of relevant testing techniques and the ability to coach and mentor your team in when to apply them. Comfortable collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team, working closely with Developers to help build high-quality products, with suitable testing at all levels. Have an analytical and critical thinking mindset – a strong problem solver who embraces new challenges. Proven experience of designing and implementing complete Test Plans and/or Automation Frameworks. Strong organisation and planning skills with meticulous attention to detail. Passionate about all things mobile and apps. Pragmatic when raising bugs and have a good understanding of risk, impact, dependencies and how to balance these. Understand the full E2E impact of changes, considering these in QA strategy and approach (e.g. ensuring that appropriate regression, smoke and sanity testing takes place).  Motivated to support others in your team to help them develop in their roles.

Experience & Skills

5+ years QA experience with a broad knowledge of best practices is essential. 1+ year line management/coaching experience. Demonstrable test framework implementations on more than one tech stack. Deep understanding of query languages, programming languages and API architectures (e.g. SQL, Java, JavaScript, XML, REST). Deep understanding of web, API and database testing technologies and frameworks. Experience in test data design and implementation strategies. Experience in Agile methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, and Behaviour-driven development (BDD). Experience with a variety of automated testing techniques (compatibility and performance testing being nice-to-have).

What’s In It For You?

Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious business. Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals. Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact. Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture. Competitive remuneration package. Company share options. A benefits package that includes Gympass, a personal learning budget, subsidised private medical insurance, matched pension contributions up to an additional 2% and more! 25 days holiday + bank holidays

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