Quality Engineer London, England
Job description
About us
Over the last 18 years, we have helped over a million satisfied customers move and manage their money. Our award-winning product portfolio allows our customers to make low-cost multi-currency payments across various payment products.
From bespoke payment solutions to travel money, transfers, currency hedging, to expense management, we are focused on a single goal of making it easy for our customers to manage and move their money. As a business, we are committed to delivering value to our customers through the combination of advanced payments technology and personal expert service.
Our technology team works in small, cross functional squads - forming part of a fun, hardworking and exceptionally supportive team of around 80 engineers. We are looking to hire a Senior Quality Engineer to help us ensure quality across all of our systems.
The Person
We are looking for confident and ambitious Quality Engineers looking for a new challenge. The person should seamlessly slot into our feature teams and proactively lead the quality assurance effort.
The Team
The QA team at Equals is currently made up of 6 diverse, fun and hard-working individuals. We’re spread between the London & Chester offices and are located all across the country including London, Chester, Brighton and Kent! We have established a really strong ‘everyone mucks in’ mantra where we support each other's work-streams wherever and whenever we can. At the moment we are working on a major upgrade
of our multi-currency card platform, FairFX, this has been a landmark project for the company and we’re making the final push to get it live!
The Role
- Collaborate in designing and building automation test scripts using tools such as Cypress
- Support the enhancement and maintenance of our existing automated test suite.
- Assist in designing and refining a comprehensive regression test suite.
- Execute regression tests, ensuring existing product functionalities remain unaffected by new implementations.
- Work closely with senior team members to understand product features, technical specifications, and user scenarios.
- Cooperate closely with developers, promoting early testing ("Shift Left" approach) and encouraging unit and integration tests at initial stages of the development cycle
- Partner with development teams to understand the intricacies of the software lifecycle and the importance of early testing.
- Aid in identifying, reproducing, and detailing software defects.
- Document test results and provide feedback on product quality and areas of improvement.
- Contribute to the evaluation of test processes and suggest improvements.
- Assist in reproducing, debugging, and resolving defects effectively and efficiently.
Desirable Tooling Experience
- Cypress
- GitHub / GitHub Actions
- AWS
- Postman
Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen, and a 60 minute interview
Benefits
- A competitive salary benchmarked against a peer group.
- 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off
- Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills.
- Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere
- Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers.
- We operate a hybrid working arrangement where possible
Where possible we offer the opportunity to work flexibly and the opportunity to balance some remote working with time in the office collaborating, taking part in events and developing the social connections that make working with us rewarding.
Equals strives to create a workplace where we can all be ourselves. We believe in inclusion and the power of diversity, so you'll be encouraged to bring your unique perspectives and experiences, and help us understand what you need to do your best work
