Senior QA Automation Engineer

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer in Marco Polo Network Engineering, you will be working alongside Developers, QA Automation Engineers, Product Owners in refinement and delivery of built-in quality features for the Marco Polo platform. You will champion best practice and tooling in MPN Engineering in test & quality, will mentor the delivery teams on approaches and will continuously be looking to identify opportunities to refine and further automate our processes.

On any given day you might:

As Senior QA Automation Engineer you will have many responsibilities including but not limited to:

• As part of an agile team, supporting Dev/QA Engineers, Architects & Product Owners in refinement and delivery of new product features
  • Understanding full scope of feature and the testing required (UI, API, migration).
  • Identifying and implementing any new test framework requirements.
  • Design and implementation of automated tests.
  • Defect reporting and follow up with developers.
• Contributing to the overall Quality strategy.
  • Evolving our automation strategy around built-in quality, continuous testing, steering testing best practices to support our existing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Suggesting/ Introducing new processes and techniques
  • Investigating, evaluating & introducing appropriate tools, technologies & techniques for automated testing.
• Reporting the right things in the right way at the right time.
• Acting as a gatekeeper you will work in a way that protects our people, systems and complies with our InfoSec and security policies and procedures.
• Continuously improve how we get things done; recommend and implement better faster more effective ways of supporting our clients and team.
• Effectively execute any special projects or ad-hoc tasks as assigned.

You will bring:

Essential Skills

• 5 years in depth automation, track record defining and implementing automated tests (API, UI) in complex projects.
• Experience working with teams in an agile environment (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban).
• Coding (Java, Kotlin).
• Unix/Linux OS knowledge, proficient in scripting (grep, awk, sed).
• Experience in testing financial applications.
• Experience in testing throughout the SDLC and well versed in the principles of BDD/TDD.
• Experience in API and UI automation frameworks (Playwright, REST Assured, Selenium, Cypress).
• Knowledge of Performance testing and tools (Locust, Gatling, JMeter).
• Good understanding of cloud/micro service architecture.
• Familiarity with common test reporting suites (Allure, Testrail).
• You take pride in the team’s ownership of their projects and code.
• You’re a team player with good Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• You’re focused on balancing both business and technical requirements.
• You value simplicity and maintainability over excessively abstracted solutions.
• You have curiosity beyond your own domain of expertise.
• You are self-disciplined/self-starter/positive attitude with drive & commitment to deadlines.
• You are analytical with strong attention to detail and are results oriented.
• Demonstrable experience in delivering production grade software.
• Highly proactive and effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability and willingness to take initiative and get things done
• A strong desire to exceed client expectation’s (internal & external) is a must
• An entrepreneurial and adaptable approach is a pre-requisite

Useful Skills

• Object-oriented Programming and Design Concepts.
• Databases & Storage (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka).
• Data Visualization/Alert monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Cloud deployments (Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Containers and Orchestration Platforms (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
• Ability to work on own initiative within a Kanban-oriented team or traditional Scrum/QA team structure.

What you can expect

• Life in a fast-moving start-up environment and all that entails.
• Competitive salary.
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays & company days).
• Flexi-lifestyle benefits (tailor your options to what is important to you, i.e., Health care, fitness, travel, continuous professional development etc).
• Pension Scheme.
• MacBook or Dell? You choose the type of equipment you need to work more efficiently.
• Keep active with many fitness team events and challenges organised throughout the year.

• Growing your family? We know how important those first few months are for both parents and we are offering paid leave for both mums and dads so you can enjoy the new arrival!
• All the tools and supports needed to do an excellent job.

• Ability to make a difference.
• A dynamic workplace with a great balance of challenging work and fun.
• A culture of innovation and a structure in which to innovate.
• A nurturing team-oriented environment with mentorship as a key feature of the dynamic.