Lead Platform Test Engineer

United Kingdom
Permanent
Full-time

22 days ago

It is our vision to connect the insurance community through market-leading technology. Our people are placed at the heart of this, and diversity, equity and inclusion are central to everything we do.We know the key to achieving success is to enable a positive, inclusive, and collaborative working culture, and, as part of our commitment, we have signed up for a number of pledges and programmes designed to support and nurture our people.No matter where you sit or which team you are a part of, we want you to know that you contribute in helping us to shape where the company will be in the future. We would love for each employee to be able to talk with pride about our company and, most importantly, consider Open GI to be an inclusive, fun and fulfilling place to work.Part of our QA Chapter, you are an exemplary QA who owns the Test Automation and Performance strategy, driving yourself and your team to deliver quality, helping them to follow the right set of testing practices, tools, metrics, etc. With a breadth of understanding around business, development, and infrastructure, domain, etc. and an understanding that “quality” manifests in all these aspects. Always has half a mind on the service-consumer, and advocates for them in all discussions. Mentors and inspires other QAs.

Working within a fast paced and growing Platform as a Service team, you are instrumental in how we deliver quality in our tools and services to our wider delivery teams
Influences key stakeholders and team members on the overall quality and practices
Quality mindset and testing practices across the programme
Excellence in testing practices and tools
High quality and sustainable delivery to production that supports the overall business goals and user’s needs
Robust, scalable automation suites enabling continuous delivery
Continually reducing cycle time, numbers of failed deployments, and mean-time to-recovery. Continually increasing numbers of deployments to production

Please note, this is a hybrid position requiring office attendance at our Worcester or Winchester location twice a week.Experience

Proven quality analyst experience, alongside QA leadership experience
Experience in implementing QA Automation Frameworks to support CI/CD
Experience in implementing Performance Engineering and Testing to support CI/CD
Experience of training and delegating Test Automation tasks and processes to other team members
Experience of continuous inspection tooling for code quality
Experience in automated Quality reporting and dashboards
Experience working with Extreme Programming methods
Experience working within a cross-functional delivery team
Experience working with Evolutionary Architecture and how to test it effectively using fitness functions
Experience of working in Public Cloud, such as AWS or Azure an advantage

Skills

Adaptability
Trust
Communicating and influencing
Continuous improvement
Working with others
Customer focus
Responding to change
Decisiveness
Problem solving

Aptitudes

Drives to Outcomes: focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.
Ownership & Accountability: takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and trade-offs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.
Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others
Improving CI/ CD practices: suggest improvements to existing in the team so that there is an uplift in the quality of the product. Able to research new tools to enhance, measure and visualise quality and implement them with the team’s support. Recognise the causes for falls in quality and takes actions to rectify them

Mission and ValuesOur values are central to our vision, as they represent how we collaborate to continually deliver for our customers:

Accountability: We own our actions and shape our success on the results we deliver
Innovation: We tackle challenges with fresh thinking and bold ideas
Teamwork: We work together, recognising we can’t do this without each other
Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and mutual respect

We are looking for an individual who embraces our values in their actions, decisions, communications and processes to inspire positivity and, ultimately, exceptional performance.Benefits package

A competitive salary depending on skills and experience
Company pension
Bonus opportunity
Life assurance and critical illness cover
Cycle to work scheme
Perkbox – an exclusive platform offering a wide range of discounts and benefits
Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, increasing to 26 days per annum after three years of service & a holiday purchase scheme
A hybrid approach to work
Opportunity for a more flexible approach to start, finish, and lunchtimes to allow you to better manage events outside of work
Social clubs - whether you’re into your cycling, crafts, or other hobbies, we have a number of groups at Open GI where individuals who enjoy the same pursuits can get together
Wellbeing – wills at work scheme, employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders

Please note, this is a hybrid position requiring office attendance at our Worcester or Winchester location twice a week.To apply for this role please fill out the application form and send us your CV.

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