Senior Quality Engineer

3 days ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Kensington Mortgages Full time

Location: Remote (We can only consider candidates based in the UK and with the right to work in the UK at this time)

Working Hours: Full Time (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:30)

Salary: Competitive with a fantastic range of benefits which can be found HERE


Overall Purpose of Job

The role of Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for the end-to-end quality assurance primarily for our product Vector, a cashflow forecasting application and service Kensington has built and continues to develop. Vector is a highly complex financial system with billions of computations running behind the scenes. Release quality, accuracy of outputs and speed to deliver is critical for Vector.

This is a highly technical role, and the role holder will need to create and develop a deep understanding of the Vector functionality and propose and design test strategies. Vector involves integration with machine learning models and has a built in cashflow engine and multiple versioning of models, which means for various model versions the calculation outputs will be different. The test strategy will have to include all the above complexities.

The role holder will need to be able to work independently to consider the testing framework and tools to be used for Vector and build the test framework and unit tests and prepare test reports for each release.

Vector outputs are used for various business requirements across KMC and Barclays, for example product pricing, headcount forecasts and securitisations. The accuracy of calculator outputs is very critical and will affect the overall credibility of the team.


Key Accountabilities

  • To act as the sole SME for Vector testing with an ability to make own decisions, which will impact the quality of Vector outputs and productivity.
  • Design and develop automated testing strategies and implement them in industry-standard testing frameworks.
  • Ensuring development and testing activities follow the procedures outlined within relevant and related Kensington policies.
  • Execute manual and automated tests, analyse results, identify defects, and document issues in a defect tracking system and prepare test summary reports.
  • Collaborate with Kensington's testing team to adopt testing strategies and tools for Vector testing framework.
  • Raising software defects with the developers and collaborating to resolve
  • Supporting the Credit Analytics team in planning and executing SIT, UAT and PIV.
  • Presenting suggestions for consideration for improvements to the engineering process
  • Identifying and raising project and business risks



Experience, Knowledge, Skills

  • The role holder must have demonstrable experience working in several test projects at a Senior level, with significant experience of building test frameworks and building automation scripts.
  • Confident to determine the right solutions, articulating ideas and helping the wider team to build an efficient testing framework for Vector.
  • Excellent collaboration skills to work with teams from other business areas, specifically within Digital Services, to adopt patterns appropriate for Vector.
  • Ability to design test plans which influence the design and build of the software to ensure quality and coverage is considered as early as possible in the development cycle
  • Have an ability to understand end-to-end systems architectures, in order that appropriate level of test coverage is met at system test and system integration testing levels
  • Strong SQL querying skills and ability to interrogate and analyse databases and data structures.
  • Experience with UI Test Automation using Selenium
  • Experience testing Web Services and APIs using tools such as Postman and SoapUI
  • Ability to explore and traverse APIs, being familiar with Open API (Swagger) specifications
  • Fluent in JSON and XML structures and notation, able to create and edit API requests and familiar with http error codes
  • Ability reading and interpreting error logs in a variety of formats and stores to diagnose issues at all stages of development through to production
  • Ability to interpret and understand source code and source control change logs to gain greater insight into the scope of testing.
  • Previous experience delivering and testing software and websites in a financial service, regulated or customer services environments.


Qualifications

  • ISTQB Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing (desirable)
  • Certified Agile Tester (desirable)



Why Join Kensington Mortgages?

Our employees are critical to our success. We work hard to ensure that Kensington Mortgages is a great place to work. We recognise the difference it makes to our business when people challenge themselves and take advantage of the development opportunities available so we try and support everyone however we can.

We also recognise the fact that people seek work life balance and continuously develop our benefits offering to create an inclusive and supportive culture where differences that exist between us all are recognised, understood and valued.


If you want to make a Difference, apply now.

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