Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Manchester, United Kingdom - CHEP

Description

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world's biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You'll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You'll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You'll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model .

Job Description

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will work with the SCI team to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products by implementing rigorous testing processes and methodologies. They will play a critical role in software development lifecycle, collaborating closely with the team to identify, analyze, and mitigate risks to product quality. They will be key to ensuring our products are usable and accurate.

Responsibilities:

• Working with development team, product owners and other stakeholders across the business to deliver quality product.
• Performing exploratory testing on the application.
• Writing and executing manual test cases.
• Carrying out regression testing to ensure that software updates and enhancements do not adversely impact existing functionality.
• Coaching fellow QA members in test case creation.
• Becoming an expert on the product.
• Building a suite of automated tests for UI and API services.
• Encouraging test automation at appropriate levels.
• Building efficient pipelines and ensuring automated tests are run as part of the pipelines.
• Constantly working towards improving the release process.
• Using tools and techniques for monitoring infrastructure, application logs, metrics, and traces.

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience in software testing / quality assurance .
• Experience with web-based application testing.
• Experience testing Rest APIs using tools like tools like Postman or similar.
• Experience in UI automation using tools like Selenium, Cypress or Playwright.
• Experience in non-functional testing, including performance and security, using tools like JMeter, k6, or similar.
• Experience in writing basic SQL queries / joins for database testing.
• Experience in configuring CI/CD pipelines to run automated tests.
• Experience with AWS cloud computing services is a bonus.

Skills

• Knowledge of JavaScript.
• Be updated with latest testing tools and industry best practices.
• Ability to build testing infrastructure and set up automation framework from scratch.
• Ability to explore new tools and techniques and fill gaps in test automation.
• Ability to coach developers about quality to ensure shared understanding about quality expectations.
• Ability to coach and mentor fellow QA engineers in line with industry standards and best practices.
• Knowledge of DevOps principles.
• Very good communication skills (verbal and written).
• Fluency in English.

Preferred Education

Bachelors

Preferred Level of Work Experience

5 - 7 years

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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