Java QA Engineer - Oxford, United Kingdom - Richard Wheeler Associates
Description
Oxford - remote / hybrid (UK-based)
Our client is a hugely successful AI tech scale-up enjoying triple digit growth twinned with around $40m funding across 3 rounds.
The company is backed by Oxford University, their customers (amongst them Goldman Sachs, AWS, JP Morgan), and leading venturecapital funds.
The Job:
This key position will find you shaping the SDET pathway in a dedicated Java AI team, providing key SDET expertise for the team.
You will be expected to readily empathise with customers using environments such as the Spring Framework as well as understandingthe internals of how these systems are put together.
You will also have a passion for testing and best-practice software delivery.Responsibilities - a flavour:
- Design and build complex Core Java JUnit tests in an Agile environment, using industry QA best practices
- Manually test those parts of our product that do not yet have test automation and rapidly evolve our testing corpus and infrastructure to cover them in time
- Participate in code reviews, pullrequest development, pair programming and test development
- Proactively contribute to the team's objectives of delivering incremental value every sprint and partner with other team members to deliver those objectives
- Interact with business stakeholders, customers and management to understand and refine user stories and the product backlog
- Have a passion for innovation and improvement whilst recognizing that customer outcomes are always king
Requirements:
We are looking for people who have:
- Fluency in the Java language and runtime library
- Fluency with JUnit, hamcrest and other Java testing frameworks
- Good understanding of the Spring Framework and the core concepts of Spring testing
- Knowledge of Git or other SCMs
- Contributions to large private and/or opensource projects
- Knowledge of testdriven development and a CI/CD setup
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work well in a team proactively
- Experience with one or more of Linux/Mac OS/Windows environments
- Willingness to learn new skills and technologies and adapt to arising challenges
Desirable:
- Knowledge of scripting languages like Python
Benefits
Our client is passionate about developing people, and this role also offers the opportunity to graduate into the core engineering team should sufficient progress be made in a suitable time frame.
Wider company benefits include:
- Competitive package, including share options
- Private health and dental plans (including 24/7 virtual GP service, additional cancer care and mental health cover)
- 8% noncontributory pension
- Life insurance & Income Protection schemes (including additional medical, wellbeing support)
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