Role: QA Engineer
Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 Per Annum - Plus pension, personal well-being benefit payment, private healthcare and lots more!
Location: Remote/hybrid working with 1-2 days a week on-site in the West Midlands offices
Start: January 2024

Jumar have partnered with a market-leading FinTech company in the West Midlands that deliver solutions into the Financial Services industry, and we are keen to speak to UK based to help support significant business growth.

Accomplished QA Engineer's are required to continue to expand our client's market leading, contemporary, Servicing platform.

If you are an innovator who is excited by working with technology that directly impacts Clients, this is a unique opportunity for you to be involved in the early stages of the development of a forward thinking application, with a critical focus on enhancing the user experience, while leveraging contemporary Cloud technologies from AWS, and contemporary development technologies and frameworks such as JAVA 17, Spring boot 3.0, Cucumber and Allure.

The role -

• You will be actively contributing to the improvement of the Quality Assurance and engineering practices.
• Supporting teams to implement new tools and quality practices and models such as test first/shift-left, the testing pyramid, and Agile testing quadrants.
• Supporting and implementing CI/CD practices and deployment strategies that will enable confident release of software and protect client systems from unplanned downtime.
• You will be responsible for identifying and accurately document defects ensuring any patterns are analysed, including root cause and provide input to the Scrum team for improvement opportunities and analysing changes and assess testing requirements and provide estimates to facilitate effective planning.
• Interrogating the quality of software delivery, this includes ways of working, the design and architecture of the features the team are implementing from the perspective of functional and non-functional testing.

About you -

• Experience as a technical QA Engineer who specialises in thorough test analysis and the automated testing of applications and APIs - using all the tools and methods at your disposal.
• You'll understand, and have experience with, a breadth of testing types and techniques, with experience in a similar role.
• Strong analytical skills - an understanding of architecture and business requirements, and an ability to drive conversations around quality with product owners and business customers.
• You'll be able to follow an evolving test strategy based on the system architecture, and the governance and guidelines around the software testing life cycle.
• Define and implement BDD-structured automated API tests within an existing automation framework.
• Experience of working using the Agile methodology.

The starting salaries are excellent, and comes with the following benefits/perks -

• Private Health care scheme including dental, optical, and mental health cover
• Wellbeing Choice - £350.00 per annum paid towards well being activities of your choice
• Life assurance scheme at 4x salary
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible hybrid working
• Contributory Pension Scheme with Scottish Widows
• 33 days Holiday, including 8 bank holidays (5 of which are flexible bank holidays) & Holiday purchase scheme up to 5 days
• Discretionary annual salary review & bonus
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Events & gifts to celebrate Long Service and Birthdays & social events
• Our client has superb premises/facilities including on-site parking and they are a short walk from the train station

If you are passionate about learning and development,we encourage you to apply for this superb opportunity - please submit your application ASAP to Jackie Dean at Jumar for an immediate response and informal discussion.

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