QA Engineer API & Mobile

Job Description

Were hiring a QA Engineer to join our customer engagement team. The mission of the team is to improve the Footasylum loyalty scheme that rewards customers for money spent instore and online, and youll play a key role in building quality into our product and reducing the time it takes to test and release new versions.The ideal candidate would have experience working within a multi-disciplinary team to build solutions that offer real business value. Someone who is eager to push testing towards the early stages of software development and able to help coach on better practices based on continuous improvement and working to deliver as a team.Weve been going through a digital transformation, changing how we deliver value to our business. A big part of this change is fostering a culture of fun, honest and inclusive behaviour, enabling psychological safety and creating a place for teams to do their best work.The Team The team is made up of a delivery manager, a product manager, a business analyst, a designer and software engineers. We like to keep our teams small enough that they become a unit of delivery, but large enough that people can pair and mob on tasks and knowledge can be shared out.There are times when youll be making sure that regression testing is performed on iOS and Android native app releases, and others when youll be looking to add contract testing into our build and deployment pipeline for the UNLCKD APIs. An important part of the job will be working closely with our business analyst on the team to make sure acceptance criteria is clear and meets the needs of the user. Youll also be involved in creating a short feedback loop based on user testing and prototyping alongside our designers, reducing the time it takes to deliver value to our users.We also swarm on issues with the wider teams if required using the equivalent of an Andon cord so people are alerted to, and team up on fixes together. At every point, youll have the support of your team and the business to do the right thing with autonomy, mastery, and purpose.Above everything else, youll have the opportunity to influence our decisions, help define standards across the teams and contribute to a healthy and happy working environment. Well also invest in you as a person, making sure that you get to learn and progress, building up skills that will help you on your career path as a QA engineer.About You Within your current organisation, you look to add quality into systems, creating safety throughout the software development lifecycle. You support those around you, youre constantly learning and work in a kind, considerate and collaborative manner with a keen interest in new ways of working.Were looking for someone with experience as a QA engineer working on creating safety around the development of APIs, making sure that each deployment minimises risk and enables us to move to a CI/CD way of working. The ideal candidate would also have experience with regression and manual testing and appreciate the idiosyncratic nature of working with mobile apps. You see the value in test-driven development, knowing what to automate, making your work open and supporting your colleagues career progression as we try and create meaningful change at Footasylum based on working together.The technologies you should be comfortable using are Postman, Azure DevOps (or similar CI/CD tools) and consuming and testing REST APIs.Were offering up to £40,000 for the right person, which we assess based on your own experiences, technical skills and against the principles of our department and our ways of working.Diversity We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.Recruitment Process We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit well invite you to meet with a few members of the Footasylum team for an informal chat about the role over Zoom, and to see if were a good fit for you. You will hear from us the same day on whether we would like to bring you back to meet the team for a follow up interview where well give you a chance to show us how you think and what your approach to a take-home scenario is.With the COVID-19 situation our teams are all working remotely, adjusting to this new way of working as best we can - and as such well help make the interview process is as clear and stress-free as possible, giving you the same opportunity as if we were meeting face to face.Were not fans of coding challenges or whiteboard interviews, we value open and honest conversations and collaboration instead, giving you a chance to learn about what were doing in an informal, friendly environment, and for you to show us how you think about problems and present solutions.