Senior QA Test Engineer Windsor, South East England, England
Job description
Centrica are going through a fascinating period of change at the moment. We’re evolving to become a truly purpose-led organisation, helping millions of customers to live more sustainably, simply and affordably. We truly believe that we have a huge role to play in helping the nation to cut carbon emissions and prepare for a net zero future, and it’s a role we are immensely proud of.
An opportunity to play your part. Reporting to Head of Testing Services this is an exciting time to be joining Centrica’s Service Transition function, overseeing technical test assurance and governance ensuring the best use of QA/test tools, techniques, and practices. This key function will help Quality Assurance / Testing Service on improving test approach to operational excellence, API, performance, release, technical and automation testing.
The day to day
- Ensure test automation framework standards are created and followed.
- Responsible for providing recommendations for various tools based on evaluation of different technologies and requirements for each Business unit/Product team.
- Evaluate, select, and formulate best usage of test tools and future alignment for different products and applications.
- Assure test automation as a centralized service across business units leveraging the testing service and other 3rd party suppliers where required.
- Ensure test automation framework standards are created and followed.
- Continuously sharing knowledge and educating others on responsible DevOps practices.
- Leading the QA team in designing QA test procedures.
- Conducting analysis checks on product specifications.
- Interact with Third party Suppliers, Stakeholders for query resolution.
- Work on building quality driven engineering culture that helps deliver products features rapidly and with good confidence.
- Service Management – Assurance and governance of testing service and deliverables.
- Support, assure and govern the non-functional test strategy including Performance, Security, Operational acceptance and Accessibility.
Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.
At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!
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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.
