Graduate Engineer

Permanent
Position: Quality Engineer
Reporting to: Head of Quality Engineering
Type: Permanent
Build a brilliant future with Hiscox The London Market tech team is a modern, agile technology department seeking to work as closely as possible with our colleagues across the company to deliver true business value in an agile fashion. We are a group of engineers (software, data, quality), data scientists and agile practitioners. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.

These are tight-knit Scrum teams working closely with product owners and business stakeholders to determine what insights are required and working to deliver them. This means our engineers must be enthusiastic in applying technology to drive results and advocate for appropriate solutions.

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic professional who will champion quality at every stage of our process, ensuring that requirements are translated into robust tests that validate our technologies meet our ambitious standards. The candidate should be eager to embrace new challenges, demonstrate a willingness to learn automation and other technologies, and adapt quickly to our squads.

We adopt best practices in the cloud and understand the importance of DevOps to ensure we can easily build, deploy, test and monitor solutions when they go into production.

Hiscox London Market is actively seeking a dynamic Quality Engineer to support our London Market Engineering team and immediately get involved in shaping the way we ensure quality across all our technology platforms.

Within this role you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our web applications, APIs, and data platforms. This will involve working closely with the software engineers and product owners in understanding, defining, and testing of the application. You will be the quality champion and driving quality by design within the squad. To achieve this, you will have good understanding of key components of our underlying technologies.

As a Quality Engineer, you will work along with other chapter members (QEs, AEs, SDETs) and will be a quality champion across the London Market Tech team. You will guide cross-discipline squads and influence them to ensure that they build quality as at forefront of all we do. You will be a fierce proponent of requirements-driven testing. You will enhance the quality assurance aspects of the squad using best practices. You will take initiative to upskill your programming skills to transform to an Automation Engineer.

Work with the Agile team during planning, development, and release to make sure things are done on time and done well.
· Analyse requirements for features, integrations, and new projects, and determine testing needs.
· Assist Automation Engineers and SDETs in building the test automation scripts.
· Proven experience in manual testing, including creating test cases, executing tests, and identifying defects
· Solid experience in Quality Engineering processes and thorough understanding of testing methodologies including behaviour-driven testing, unit testing and data-driven testing.
· Experience working in a truly agile style.
· Willingness to take initiative to learn technical skills and scale up to become an Automation Engineer.
· Fluency in English and Excellent Communication skills.

Experience in writing tests in BDD format
· Experience with the API testing using Postman or related tools.
· Sufficient SQL expertise to develop effective backend database tests.
· Exposure to any test automation tool
· Understanding of any programming language
· Our technology
We adapt market leading technologies to solve our business problems. Our suite of applications encompasses web-based platforms, API endpoints, desktop software, and cloud solutions. We are also making significant strides in integrating AI technologies across our application landscape. We seek people with a good understanding of quality engineering, software development practices and can apply this knowledge in enhancing the quality standards.

Our technology platforms include web applications developed in C# interacting with backend services (APIs) and backed by Microsoft SQL Server databases. We operate data platforms using Snowflake cloud data warehouse orchestrated with Python code and Prefect for ELT. We have a hybrid on-premises / Azure cloud infrastructure and are adopting a cloud first / provider agnostic approach.

We take a DevOps approach and strive for continuous integration / continuous deployment. Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox
We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

We have also learned over the past couple of years that working life does not always have to be in the office and have adopted hybrid ways of working to encourage a healthy work life balance. We anticipate the successful candidate for this role will be in the office up to 2 days per fortnight.

If you want to help build a brilliant future; be part of a unique company culture; We are a global, specialist insurer headquartered in Bermuda and listed on the London Stock Exchange. With 3,000 employees and 32 offices in 12 countries we are a business with lots of opportunity for people with talent, spark, and lots of ambition.