Quality Engineer

About The Role

We’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing. Added to that we’re the first health insurer in the UK to be awarded B-Corp status in recognition of our significant achievements in sustainability, in addition to our ambitious environmental and social responsibility goals.

As a Quality Engineer, you’ll empower teams by bringing a focus to quality. As a Quality Engineer, you’ll bring expertise in test automation, quality assurance, agile processes and CI/CD, among other things. Everything can impact quality, so as a Quality Engineer you will understand all aspects of Product delivery and its relationship to quality. You’ll use this expertise to champion, evangelise, influence and advocate for quality.

The role holder will bring engineering expertise, strong communication skills, user empathy, and a “creatively destructive” mindset. Working across multiple tech stacks and implementing automation, you will dive into the technical details, collaborating to design an optimal testing approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Deconstruct solutions into tests that optimise for coverage and risk
• Develop and evolve test plans for complex applications
• Create trusted test automation with high reliability and relevancy
• Assess and advise on testability of user stories including, acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, definition of ready and the definition of done
• Assess and advise on risk and coverage
• Coach and guide the squad & stakeholders on quality
• Be an evangelist & advocate for quality within the organisation
• Keep up to date on new technologies, platforms & techniques
• Striving for higher quality, higher velocity product delivery
  
  

About You

To be considered you must have:

• Practical understanding of the key principles of Quality Assurance. The ability to translate it to IT engineering and the wider organisation
• Practical experience in functional & non-functional testing
• Practical experience implementing test techniques across different levels of testing e.g. SIT, etc.
• Practical experience in UI & API testing
• Experience in Automation Frameworks (Playwright would be desirable)
• Experience of a Programming and/or scripting language (JavaScript/TypeScript preferred)
• Experience in gathering and analysing information
• Experience in creative and critical thinking
• Mindset of ‘How do I solve a problem?’
• Understanding of Software Engineering concepts to a junior level
• Practical understanding of Automation best practice
• Understanding of the Software development Lifecycle
• Understanding of CI/CD (understanding of other DevOps concepts desirable)
• Experience of working in an Agile or collaborative Squad environment (Scrum or Kanban)
• Demonstrable experience in learning the ‘building blocks’ of an Ecosystem (Products, services, platform, process, etc.)
• Proven track record in continuous self-learning, willingness to learn
  
  

What’s In It For You

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

• Group bonus scheme
• Generous pension with a 6% pension gift from us
• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays) - with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days
• Flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers and more)
• Your own health plan
• Access to a wellbeing hub
• Shopping discounts
• Recognition awards
• Give as you earn
• 3 volunteering days
  
  

We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more. You can expect to be in our Andover office at least once a week.

Your Recruitment Journey

We’re focused on providing an application, assessment and onboarding journey that is fair, consistent, diverse and inclusive for all, allowing us to hire top talent based on the skills and behaviours pivotal to your and our success.

Your process

• Screening call with Talent Acquisition Team
• Virtual Interview with the hiring manager and team
• Aptitude assessment
• Presentation with the hiring manager and team
• Offer
  
  

Should you require any additional support with your application, or need us to make any adjustments for you, please contact our Talent Team: [email protected].

Please note: Working for a purpose driven company like ours is a fantastic opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications after this time.

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