Junior Quality Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Junior Quality EngineerBusiness Unit: CIO, Digital Solutions Salary: Starting from£26,000 - £34,000 per annum DOELocation: UK, FlexibleContract Type: PermanentThe best we are is together.At Virgin Money, the freedom to be your true self means everything to us. Its about bringing as much of yourself to work as you want and encouraging others to do the same. We all want to be ourselves, whoever that is, wherever that is. That sense ofbelonging is so important to us, weve made it a core part of our strategy. Its good for you, its good for us and its amazing for our customers.We want to share with you our amazing journey within the Digital space ( its really out of this world) and would love for you to join us! Were working hard to transform the way we work, become more agile and to be best placed to provide first class servicesto our customers. The need to be on the go at a click of a button has never been greater and its us to us to make that happen when it comes to Banking with us.We believe in collaboration, with Agile at the heart of everything we do. We arent perfect (who is) so we iterate and improve as we go. We are looking for people who can, not only help us continue to disrupt the banking sector but also how we become betterat what we do!We are looking for Junior Quality Automation Engineers, to join or Quality Engineering Chapter. In this exciting new role, you will work alongside our tribes/squads to deliver test automation and framework(s) that complement our development approach. Youwill work collaboratively with our teams to review our manual testing packs and migrate this effort to an automated testing pack to move us to a CI/CD delivery approach. You will help to develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products tomeet stakeholder needs as well as track and improve quality metrics to demonstrate the benefits of an automated first approach.Day to day youll be

• Using your understanding of quality frameworks such as TDD and BDD as well as automation principles and toolsets such as Selenium, Cucumber, cloud based and performance test tools, continuous integration tools, service virtualization and jira to help usdelight our colleagues and customers
• Working with other quality engineers and competency chapter leads to understand the CIO & tribe priorities
• Working as a team you will contribute to the best solution and help prioritise the backlog for the tribe which will demonstrate the most relevance for our colleagues and customers
• You will help in identifying technical impediments, working directly to resolve. You will work with tribe members to support and educate on quality first principles, whilst facilitating CI/CD

To be brilliant youll need to bring

• Knowledge of testing best practices and understanding of unit, functional, integration, tooling and frameworks covering functional and non-functional requirements
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum principles or working practice
• An understanding of quality assurance activities including manual and automation testing
• Knowledge of Java, Manual Testing and Test Automation

Overall, your attitude and approach are as important as the experience and skills that you will bring.The icing on the cake would be.

• Computer Science and/or Engineering degrees (or equivalent practical experience) are preferred while other degree subjects may be considered
• Highly effective communication skills working with all levels of the organization

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the"to be brilliant youll need to bring"section above, but the final section isjust our wish list, so please dont let that put you off applying, wed love to hear from you!RED HOT Rewards A generous holiday package and the option to buy more! Private Medical Insurance - with the option to extend to family members. Pension! A market leading pensionwell top up your contributions too. Flexible benefitscustomise your rewards to work for you!Inclusion at Virgin MoneyInclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. Its good for you, its good for us and its amazing for our customers. We know that great minds dont think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgroundsto be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application Wed love to hear from you so get in touch with our friendly team at orPoint to noteAt the minute, depending on which team you are joining, lots of us are working from home. This is something that may change over time, and if so, we will come together in one of our hub locations, giving you the chance to meet your new colleagues in person.We will of course, make sure you have the IT equipment to access our systems and to interact digitally with your new team and colleagues, but we thought it best to let you know this in advance, so you can make sure you are set up to work safely and productively.If you have any questions on this let us know!Now the legal bitIf we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years worth of satisfactory references.