QA Engineer

dnata Travel; Farington Moss; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel discounts

25 days annual leave

Company pension

Life assurance

Low-cost health care for you and your 

Employee Assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Volunteer days

DEI programmes

Job summary

dnata Travel Group, part of the Emirates Group, includes the brands of Gold Medal & Travelbag. We’re recruiting an experienced QA Engineer with a blend of manual and automation capabilities to join us in Leyland (Lancashire), supporting our tour operator brands.

You’ll provide technical expertise and guidance for assuring quality in your assigned project and delivery team. You will be joining a smart, experienced, fast-moving team who continue to explore new technologies, tools & techniques to

Qualifications

• Strong communication with technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to lead meetings and initiatives.
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills.
• Good planning and organisation.
• Manual and automation testing experience.
• Familiar with SOAP/REST and JSON/XML.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to assure quality in projects.
• Promote technical excellence within the delivery team.
• Run meetings with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with offshore and in-house teams to deliver roadmap quality.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation testing

QA processes

Communication

Stakeholder management

Agile

Tools

JIRA

DevOps

Job description

dnata Travel Group, part of the Emirates Group, includes the brands of Gold Medal & Travelbag.

We’re now recruiting for an experienced QA Engineer with a blend of manual and automation capabilities to join us in Leyland (Lancashire), supporting our tour operator brands. In this role, you’ll provide technical expertise and guidance for assuring quality in your assigned project and delivery team. You will take responsibility for promoting technical excellence within your delivery team ensuring the team’s output is of the highest level of quality.

We need someone who is a great communicator, able to clearly understand, solve and educate the team in all aspects of quality assurance. You’ll be expecting to use your initiative and clear communication skills to run meetings and interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

As a QA Engineer, you will have a proven strong background in quality assurance and be expected to contribute to the wider team of quality engineers and software developers, offshore teams, infrastructure and architecture teams, to deliver the product roadmap. You will support both the Development & Delivery Managers by promoting quality within your team and ensuring high quality features are delivered.

You will have a working knowledge of software delivery best practices, especially Agile and be comfortable working as part of cross functional team.

The dnata Travel engineering team is responsible for the growth and evolution of an in-house developed travel platform which is being developed and rolled out across multiple brands, departments and teams across the world.

You will be joining a smart, experienced, fast-moving team who continue to explore new technologies, tools & techniques to both grow this global platform and to service the growing needs of the business that the platform supports.

This is a hybrid role, based 3 days in the office and 2 days remotely each week.

To be considered for this role, we need you to have the following skills, experience and qualifications:

• Strong, clear communication skills, able to interact with technical and non-technical teams

• A strong initiative to provide direct and run meetings

• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills.

• Good planning skills.

Experience:

• Manual and automation testing experience

• Analysing Test Requirements, Test Case Design and Test Execution

• UI, Functional, Regression and Sanity testing

• Modern test case management software such as Dev Ops and JIRA

• Functional and non-functional test strategy and implementation

• Automation frameworks that support test development across any of Web, Mobile, API

• Familiar with protocols such as SOAP/REST and object notations such as JSON and XML

• Manual & Exploratory Testing

Our bright, modern office in Leyland is just 10 minutes from junctions 28 & 29 of the M6. We have some fantastic benefits, making us a great place to work:

• Travel discounts – we have a dedicated Staff Travel Team to help you plan your next adventure

• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 28 days after 5 full years of service (+ bank holidays)

• Additional annual leave purchase scheme

• Company pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Low-cost health care for you and your family

• Employee Assistance programme

• Mental Health First Aiders

• Ongoing development – we have an in-house People Development Team

• Industry/social events – including supplier events, office socials & parties and pop-up shops

• Cycle to work scheme

• Reward & recognition programme

• Belong programme - Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that play a crucial role in implementing our DEI strategy

• Volunteer days – one day’s paid leave each year to volunteer with a registered charity

• dnata4good – supporting the local communities we work, live and thrive in

• Refer a friend scheme

• Free eye care tests

• Free Taste Card membership– offering discounts on dining out, movies, attractions, takeaways and online shopping

• Casual dress code

• Free tea and coffee, subsidised on-site restaurant with free wifi and free car parking