QA Engineer

Sage Group plc; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a QA Engineer, where you'll ensure the reliability and performance of innovative cloud-based solutions. In this hybrid role, you'll collaborate with talented professionals, conducting vital testing and enhancing automation frameworks. Your contributions will directly impact the quality of services that empower businesses globally. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this organization fosters an environment where innovation thrives and every team member can reach their potential. If you're ready to make a difference in the tech landscape, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in UI test automation and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with monitoring tools and SRE principles.

Responsibilities

• Conduct performance and stress testing for cloud products.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate QA best practices.

Skills

UI test automation

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring tools

SRE principles

Full testing lifecycle

Tools

Selenium

New Relic

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Job Title

QA Engineer

Job Description

Sage is a global leader in accounting, payroll, and financial management solutions. We empower businesses with innovative cloud-based software, simplifying and automating financial processes so they can thrive in a digital world.

We're looking for a QA Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within Cloud Services Engineering & Operations. In this role, you'll play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and resilience of our cloud-based accounting products, helping us deliver seamless, high-quality solutions to customers worldwide.

This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle office.

Key Responsibilities

What You'll Do

1. Conduct performance, load, and stress testing to optimize system scalability and stability.
2. Collaborate with SREs, DevOps, and engineers to integrate QA best practices into CI/CD pipelines.
3. Develop, execute, and maintain automated test cases to ensure cloud software reliability.
4. Build and enhance test automation frameworks for cloud infrastructure and application reliability.
5. Support incident response efforts by diagnosing, documenting, and resolving production issues.
6. Drive resilience testing strategies, including chaos engineering, to strengthen system robustness.
7. Participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
8. Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure smooth product releases.
9. Mentor junior QA engineers in automation, cloud QA, and SRE methodologies.

What We're Looking For

Must-Have Skills:

• Proficiency in UI test automation (e.g., Selenium).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test automation integration.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
• Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability testing and fault tolerance.
• Experience across the full testing lifecycle, from test planning to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in performance and load testing for cloud-based applications.
• Understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud infrastructure testing.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and scripting languages (Python, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to resilience testing tools (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Gremlin).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).

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Function

Cloud Operations

Country

United Kingdom

Office Location

Newcastle

Work Place type

Hybrid

Advert

Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.

Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.

Learn more about working at Sage: sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/

Watch a video about our culture: youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE

We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out at [e-mail].

Learn more about DEI at Sage: sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/