Senior Test Engineer - Remote Opportunity with Relocation Support

About the Role

hackajob is collaborating with Hippo Digital UK to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We are looking for a Senior Test Engineer remote to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Test Engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support, and maintain user-centered digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will design and implement quality check procedures for our products and services. You will be responsible for analyzing features, designing test parameters, creating customized quality checks, and writing up final procedures. You’ll also use your experience and expertise to enable our clients to continue to iterate and improve their products and services. This Senior Test Engineer remote role allows you to drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships, and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.

What You'll Do

• Meet with the product design team to determine testing parameters.
• Write test plans and create test cases for the product, conducting quality assurance and design performance tests using the new testing procedures, producing test reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design, and deliver solutions to client problems.
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur.
• Communicate effectively, presenting prototypes, solutions, and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear, concise manner.
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome.
• Involved in the recruitment, onboarding, and line management of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development.
• Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally through writing blogs, workshops, seminars, or conferences.

Requirements

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical and non-technical terms depending on the audience.
• Extensive experience in functional automation and non-functional automation testing.
• Experience of the full testing lifecycle with a proven track record as a QA/Test Engineer.
• Skilled in testing web and mobile applications, including accessibility, cross-browser/device, and usability testing.
• Experience of using testing tools such as Selenium, Specflow, Cucumber, Gherkin Syntax, JMeter, and K6.
• Containerization experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar.
• Exposure to Python is highly desirable.
• Experience of Microservices design and architecture and Restful API Services.
• Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban, and TDD.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code – Cloudformation, Terraform or ARM or similar.
• Expertise in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, and Atlassian.
• Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary with transparency from the outset.
• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%).
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays.
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts.
• Critical illness cover and life assurance.
• Volunteer days and cycle-to-work scheme.
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme and season ticket loans.
• Flexible benefits scheme with options for private health and dental cover.

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