QA Engineer

StepStone Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in London seeks a skilled Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure high-quality software development. You will guide the team in testing best practices, manage automated acceptance tests, and contribute to data quality assurance. Ideal candidates will have a strong understanding of SQL, Python, and cloud data infrastructure, along with experience in automated testing frameworks. The role offers a hybrid working model, and competitive benefits including private healthcare and a pension plan.

Benefits

29 days holiday allowance

Private medical and dental healthcare

Matching pension contribution

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud data infrastructure like AWS.
• Strong background in automated regression testing.
• Ability to manage multiple projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Help create automated acceptance tests to improve product quality.
• Perform manual exploratory testing.
• Ensure User Stories are fully testable with acceptance criteria.

Skills

Understanding of data engineering

Experience in Exploratory Testing

Knowledge of tooling for test management

Ability to collaborate with Agile teams

Tools

SQL

Python

Testrail

Pytest

Job description

Join our team and youll 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 integratemetrics 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 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 bugsand 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

• 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)

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time