Quality Engineer

Hey there! Do you have a knack for quality engineering and a passion for crafting top-notch software? If you thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy tackling challenges with creativity, then we’d love to hear from you! Join us as a Quality Engineer at Flooid and make an impact on a global scale!

The Flooid Quality Engineer will collaborate with both technical and business team members, contribute to the creation of test scripts, execute and report on tests, and provide key expertise to the agile Engineering team on quality best practices and automation initiatives.

Please note: We do not have sponsorship available for this role, so you will need the right to work in the UK.

Your primary duties will include:

·       Working alongside QAs and QEs within a cross functional agile project team.

·       Working with Business Analysts and Developers to produce feature file scenarios, test planning, and estimations.

·       Identifying testing tasks for new user stories during planning sessions.

·       Pairing with Developers in Test to obtain an understanding of automated test design in line with Test-Driven Development methodology within framework.

·       Creating, maintaining, and monitoring automation tests, metrics and reviewing cases from other QEs.

·       Owning defects through the STLC and identify trends to support the root cause.

·       Ensuring all features that are built within the delivery teams have the sufficient level of test coverage.

A successful Quality Engineer at Flooid will be a pro-active self-starter with an eye for detail who collaborates effectively with team members and isn’t afraid to seek out opportunities for innovation and improvement. Above all, the right candidate will innately care about the quality of the software we deliver to our customers and be driven to find creative solutions to maintain and improve that quality. The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

Expert-level knowledge of and experience with the following:

• TDD & BDD
• (Cucumber / Gherkin)
• Selenium WebDriver / Cucumber / Cypress / Playwright
• Modern test automation practices and tools in general
• IntelliJ / Eclipse
• Java Spring and SpringBoot frameworks

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Strong competence in the following areas:

• Mercurial and Git source control systems
• Concordion / Postman / REST Assured
• Page Object Model for web testing
• SQL and no-SQL databases (IBM DB2, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB)
• Data languages (XML, JSON, YAML, etc

Knowledge of the following:

• Atlassian toolset (JIRA / Confluence / Xray)
• Windows & Linux environments
• Cloud deployments (primarily GCP)
• Mobile iOS / Android Testing
• Retail POS Testing
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders and collaborators from across the business
• Good communication skills, with a focus on attention to detail, accuracy, and quality
• Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills, with the confidence to ask questions and challenge opinions when necessary
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, having the ability to balance multiple responsibilities and tight timescales
• CI pipeline tools (Jenkins)

• Flexible working – To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi-working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events.

• Holidays – We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around 25-30 days holiday plus public bank holidays per year.
• A flexible pension – We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner
• Company sick pay – We offer piece of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy
• Family benefits – We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Electric Dreams salary sacrifice scheme in partnership with Octopus EV – An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero-emission electric vehicle
• Financial, physical and wellbeing support – To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme
• Access to a discount platform – Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations
• Professional subscriptions – We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it’s required to perform your job role
• Charity giving – support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll, saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay
• Cycle to work scheme – Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work
• Rewarding long service – We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team

If you believe you have the skills and experience to carry out this role, although feel you do not meet 100% of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway! Research suggests that certain groups of the population will apply for a role if they meet 60% of a roles requirements, while others will only apply if they hit 100% - we encourage applications from anyone with the skills, experience and attributes that will make you a great addition to both the role they are applying and the company overall.

Flooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.