Senior Test Engineer

Join to apply for the Senior Test Engineer role at Cinefix 4 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants About The Role Hippo is recruiting a Senior Test Engineer to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Test Engineers work in multidisciplinary teams that build, support and maintain user‑centered digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone. They design and implement quality check procedures for our products and services, analyse features, design test parameters, create customised quality checks and write final procedures. They also use their experience to enable our clients to iterate and improve their products and services, drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and upskill others. We are looking for candidates at a senior level who see this role as a growth opportunity. Therefore the advertised salary band is at the lower end of our full banding for this level, with room for progression. Your Role In Nutshell Meet with the product design team to determine testing parameters. Write test plans and create test cases, conduct quality assurance and performance tests, and produce reports for internal and external stakeholders. Collaborate to design and deliver solutions to client problems. Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, resolving issues before they occur. Communicate and present prototypes, solutions and progress to stakeholders clearly and concisely. Build strong relationships with team and stakeholders, ensuring challenges are overcome. Participate in recruitment, onboarding and line management of other engineers and support professional development of colleagues. Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally through blogs, workshops, seminars or conferences. Skills and Experience Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to articulate in technical and non‑technical terms. Extensive experience in functional and non‑functional automation testing. Proven track record as a QA/Test Engineer across the full testing lifecycle. Experience testing web and mobile applications, including accessibility, cross‑browser/device and usability testing. Experience with tools such as Selenium, SpecFlow, Cucumber, Gherkin, JMeter and K6. Containerisation experience with Docker, Kubernetes or similar. Python exposure highly desirable. Experience with microservices design and architecture. Experience with RESTful API services. Working within agile methods using Scrum, Kanban and TDD. Skilled in designing and building frameworks to test native and web applications across various platforms. Infrastructure‑as‑code experience with CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM or similar. Expertise in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps. Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps and Atlassian. Experience on GOV/NHS projects highly desirable. What Makes Us Great – Benefits Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%). 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays. Perkbox access for discounts. Critical illness cover. Life assurance and death in service cover. Volunteer days. Cycle‑to‑work scheme. Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme. Season ticket loans. Financial and general wellbeing sessions. Flexible benefits scheme – private health, dental, additional pension contributions, extra holidays, wellbeing contribution, charity contributions, tree planting. Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Hippo is dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups, including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent individuals and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity. Locations Headquartered in Leeds with offices in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. The role is hybrid remote based in Leeds LS1 4HT, with occasional on‑site work at client locations as required. Relocation support up to £8k is available. Pay and Employment Pay: £57,000 – £64,000 per year. Employment type: Full‑time. Seniority level: Mid‑Senior. #J-18808-Ljbffr