QA Engineer: Drive Quality Across Deliveries

hiscox; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Hiscox UK Technology Estate is seeking a QA Engineer to apply business, system, and quality engineering expertise to drive high quality changes across the Hiscox UK technology landscape.

You will join a squad, build product knowledge, contribute to acceptance criteria, and design and execute tests while embedding quality across the delivery lifecycle. You will participate in ceremonies and share learnings to improve our testing approaches.

Qualifications

• Experience in UAT, System testing, and Agile testing.
• Knowledge of the software testing process and ability to manage planning, execution, defects, and reporting.
• Experience testing Web, API, and Data Warehousing using appropriate tools.
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Strong organisation, methodical approach, and ability to meet deadlines with good communication and analytical skills.
• Proactive problem solving and ownership mindset.
• Driven to improve personal contribution.

Responsibilities

• Be an integral part of the squad and value stream, understand end-to-end processes, and devise effective test suites.
• Contribute to definition of Story scope and acceptance criteria.
• Create or contribute to test approaches where necessary.
• Verify story scope and acceptance criteria have been met by testing the change.
• Perform targeted Regression Testing to ensure no adverse impacts.
• Log, re-test and resolve defects based on criticality.
• Maintain records of testing performed and participate in squad ceremonies.
• Support release delivery via release regression and other activities.
• Provide high quality reports on quality and risks.
• Share knowledge within wider test chapter and contribute to process improvements.
• Continuously learn testing tools/techniques and pursue development objectives.

Skills

UAT

System testing

Agile testing

Test automation

Defect management

Test planning

Quality advocacy

Tools

Jira

ADO

Zephyr

Job description

Hiscox UK Technology Estate is seeking a QA Engineer to apply business, system, and quality engineering expertise to drive high quality changes across the Hiscox UK technology landscape.

You will join a squad, build product knowledge, contribute to acceptance criteria, and design and execute tests while embedding quality across the delivery lifecycle. You will participate in ceremonies and share learnings to improve our testing approaches.