Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

3 weeks ago

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Howden Group Holdings Full time

About Howden Group Holdings

We are a collective of talented and passionate people from around the world, united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset. Our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team of 18,000 employees spanning over 100 countries.

Our employees join us for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It's what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you'll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

Role: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Team: Web Development

Location: Remote first; with fortnightly to monthly face-to-face in Gloucester.

Tech: Blazor, C#, Azure, ADO, HTML, CSS. Moq, NUnit, bUnit, Automapper, Playwright, Jmeter.

As one of the largest insurance groups in the world and the fifth largest employee-owned business in the UK, we manage premiums on behalf of millions of clients across a wide range of product offerings and our development team work on solutions that innovate and put the user's needs at the forefront.

Key Responsibilities

  • Harness the capabilities of Microsoft Azure, Blazor, C# and Playwright to develop and test our front-end applications to create scalable, high-performing, and user-friendly solutions that are secure and reliable.
  • Participate in regular agile sessions, collaborating closely with your team to deliver our roadmap whilst developing our automated test capability.
  • Influence and encourage a quality is everyone's responsibility mindset and shift-left approach.
  • Coach and mentor less experienced colleagues to help them progress towards senior.
  • Drive up standards and quality as well as maximising throughput of the team through a robust CI/CD mindset.
  • Work with other seniors to take lead roles on architectural and technical designs and present these as part of team refinement.

About You

  • A keen understanding of the broader technological landscape.
  • A strong understanding of the test pyramid and a myriad of testing techniques (Smoke, white-box, performance, exploratory etc).
  • Demonstrable experience working with C#, Blazor or other front-end technologies and how best to test them.
  • Comfortable working closely with software engineers.
  • Understand and promote the need for automation but will not necessarily be required to code – Quality is a team responsibility.
  • A keen eye for detail and a focus on putting users first.
  • A defensive mindset when consuming APIs and sanitising user inputs.
  • A strong understanding and experience in testing accessibility needs and relevant standards.
  • Familiarity with Test-driven Development and a strong commitment to high quality, maintainable and easy to understand code.
  • Exposure to cloud technologies (preferably Azure).
  • A strong communicator and facilitator.
  • A demonstrable risk-based approach to testing.
  • An experimental and scientific mindset leading to data-led decision making.
  • An understanding of agile development methodologies.
  • Genuinely believes in the value of continuous delivery practices and iterative development based on feedback.
  • Ability to demonstrate working software to a mixture of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience coaching and mentoring less experienced colleagues.
  • Working with the leadership team on identifying training needs within your team.
  • Working with our product owners in refining, designing and architecting solutions in keeping with, or challenging, existing patterns and technologies.
  • Spots and remediates risks in the SDLC.
  • Familiarity with architectural decision records.
  • Strong documentation skills in generating acceptance criteria, test plans, and test cases etc.

What We Offer

  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), pro-rated for part year service.
  • A set of core benefits, designed with your health and financial protection in mind:
    • Life Assurance up to 4x salary, protecting your loved ones in case the worst should happen.
    • Income protection, guaranteeing an income for up to 5 years in the event of an illness or injury.
    • Contributory pension scheme – 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution, rising to 5% & 5% in April 2025.
    • Access to a Healthcare Cashplan, which gives you access to a variety of health related benefits.
  • Access to a host of lifestyle and financial benefits that you can choose from:
    • Discounts on gym membership across the UK.
    • Salary sacrifice schemes – Travel Insurance, Cycle to Work, Car leasing, Technology purchase.
    • Access to discounted personal health policies – Critical illness, private medical, dental plans.
    • A range of insurance products available commission free, including home, motor, travel and specialist vehicles.
    • Access to hundreds of high-street retailer discounts.
    • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support employees outside of work.

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