Data QA Engineer

Cerebras; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is seeking a skilled QA Engineer to ensure high-quality software throughout the development cycle. This role involves guiding best testing practices, collaborating on programming tasks, and contributing to automated tests. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with data engineering, AWS, and testing frameworks. A hybrid working model and attractive benefits are offered.

Benefits

29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays

Private medical and dental healthcare

Matching pension contribution

Hybrid working model

Cycle to work scheme

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Understanding of cloud data infrastructure elements, ideally AWS.
• Automation experience and time management for multiple projects.
• Ability to influence team members and manage priorities.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product quality through effective testing practices.
• Help developers create automated acceptance tests.
• Integrate metrics for measuring data product quality.

Skills

Understanding of data engineering

Experience in Exploratory Testing

Knowledge of AWS

Experience with test frameworks

Ability to contribute to automated regression tests

Tools

SQL

Python

Testrail

Job description

Company Description

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.

Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform.

Job Description

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for ensuring quality throughout the whole software development cycle. You will guide and support others and lead the team by example with best testing practices.

Working in the Commercial Data Solutions domain, you will work across multiple projects to identify potential issues, along with helping with refinement of requirements, and making informed judgement calls on the scope of testing required. You will have the opportunity to get involved in programming tasks if you so choose, or to help with the business analysis.

This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities

• Help the developers to create good quality automated acceptance tests to ensure the product is protected into the future and work hard to eliminate bugs before they are ever created, by contributing very actively to the planning stages
• Manual exploratory testing
• Ensure that the User Stories accepted into the sprints have complete acceptance criteria, are testable, and that NFRs are not forgotten (accessibility, security, access control, etc.)
• Bring testing experience to the team and help other team members write good quality automated tests
• Help build a culture of ever-increasing data quality with a focus on all data quality dimensions and integrate metrics with centralized tools that measure data products’ quality and reliability in the organization

Qualifications

• Understanding of data engineering (including SQL, Python, Data Warehousing, ETL, Dimensional Modelling, Analytics)
• Understanding of cloud data infrastructure elements, and ideally AWS (Redshift, Glue, Athena, S3) and understanding of existing governance frameworks of data quality and their dimensions (DAMA, GOV.UK, etc.).
• Experience in Exploratory Testing, automation experience, and time and attention management between multiple projects, experience in data process and asset testing, and automation of unit, integration and regression testing and experience analysing user stories for their testing requirements both functional and non-functional
• Knowledge of tooling to support test use case management and automation, such as Testrail, and test frameworks such as Pytest.
• Experience contributing to the automated regression tests, ability to isolate causes for hard to reproduce bugs and ability to influence and persuade other team members and experience working collaboratively with 2 or more Agile/Scrum teams at the same time, and self-managing time share according to key priorities

Additional Information

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Private medical and dental healthcare
• Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office)
• Volunteering days
• and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:

• Armed Forces Covenant: Silver Award, Employer Recognition Scheme
• EcoVadis: Bronze Award
• Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
• Stonewall: Gold Award
• Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)