Senior Associate Application Engineer (Quality)

Discover Financial Services; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading digital banking and payments company as a Senior Associate Quality Application Engineer. This role is pivotal in ensuring quality applications are delivered through automated testing and agile practices. You'll work collaboratively within agile teams, enhancing your skills in software engineering and test automation. This innovative firm offers a supportive environment where you can grow and make a meaningful impact on millions of customers' financial futures. If you're passionate about technology and quality assurance, this is the perfect opportunity to advance your career in a dynamic setting.

Benefits

Health Insurance

On-site Fitness Center

Flexible Working Hours

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in Software Engineering or related fields is essential.
• Proficiency in Test Automation and Agile practices is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and automate regression test suites for quality assurance.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to system design decisions.

Skills

Software Engineering

Test Automation

Agile Methodologies

Domain Driven Design

Test Driven Development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Tools

Jenkins

JMeter

CUKE

Ansible

Job description

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Associate Quality Application Engineer (Quality), you’ll be a key part of our agile delivery teams– from helping refine and test requirements, to building automated regression test suites. You’ll ultimately help ensure your team continually delivers quality applications into production at Discover. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsible for the ability to program most features and test cases unattended but lacks a complete overview of product development and operations. As a result, handovers to other team members limits productivity.

How You’ll Do It

• Completes most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended
• Learn more complex software engineering practices such as domain driven design, test driven development, operations, and security
• Contributes to agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms, and participates in technology communities
• Participates in system design decisions and learns how these decisions impact the product as a whole
• Learns to support production systems and understands how observed events and failures impact the product

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related
• Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advance beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally; ability to communicate in written form.

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Containers and Public Cloud
• Strong understanding of Dev-Ops and/or Test Automation at both the component and system level
• Knowledgeable with tools such as Jenkins, JMeter, CUKE, Ansible

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United Kingdom on a full-time basis.

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Feb-09-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email [e-mail]. Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.

With our benefits, life’s easier – which means you’re free to grow

Join us and you can expect a whole lot of rewards. From Health and insurance to on-site fitness centers, there’s everything you need to thrive – in and out of work.

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