QA Engineer – Kings Cross, London London, England

Universal Music Group

Full Time London, England 40000 - 65000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Music is Universal

It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email [email protected].

The A Side: A Day in The Life

We are seeking an inquisitive, proactive and ambitious QA Engineer.

You must have experience working as an SDET/Automation Engineer and in QA roles. You will be responsible for defining, executing and maintaining manual and automated test scenarios, working closely within your SCRUM team.

You will be expected to understand the software testing lifecycle within the project. You must be able to communicate effectively, be proactive and highly involved in team participation.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Technical

Define functional and non-functional tests using the BDD approach, ensuring adequate depth and breadth of test coverage
Confident creating and maintaining high quality test suites and test cases (in test management tool TestRail for manual testing)
Experience maintaining automated testing frameworks
Improve the existing test suite structure and ensure that the content in the test scenarios satisfies and complements the business requirements and contributes to successful test execution
Actively support Agile development methods and best practices
Support other testers in their work to ensure the spread of good practice and knowledge
Assist business test team (UAT)
Use Jira to track defects and tasks

Person Specification

Necessary

Strong experience in Software Testing within a full lifecycle software engineering environment, preferably in an agile or iterative development environment
Experience with Selenium WD, Specflow and C# or similar test automation frameworks
Solid understanding of software testing concepts and methodologies
Strong hands-on experience of test planning, execution and maintenance of test scenarios
Hands on experience of manual web testing including responsiveness and cross browser
Experience in defining and executing functional and non-functional tests
Basic working knowledge of SQL and relational databases
Understanding of risk identification and analysis
Great communication skills

Desirable

Experience with test automation tools and strategies, REST API Automation or similar
Docker knowledge or similar
AWS knowledge or similar
Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, TestRail or similar
ISTQB knowledge or similar
Postman knowledge or similar
Git knowledge or similar

Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits

Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
Private Medical Insurance
25 paid days of annual leave

Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
Holiday Purchase scheme
Dental and Travel Insurance options
Cycle to Work Scheme
Salary Sacrifice Cars
Subsidised Gym Membership
Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)

Just So You Know…

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.

Job Category:

Technology

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