Quality Engineer

Role Responsibility

We're seeking an experienced "Quality Engineer" to join our growing team and contribute to cutting-edge initiatives. Quality is fundamental to our delivery process, and this is instrumental to lead and deliver the advancement of continuous testing within our delivery teams.​

Candidate is expected to have a strong Retail and Quality Engineering background. We are committed to enhancing the quality of our products and customer experiences, so the role is expected to collaborate with engineering and delivery counterparts to foster a 'shift left' mindset within the squad. ​

QEs will be integrated into one of our agile delivery squads, with some working across different geographic locations, including 3rd-party locations. Collaboration is key, and you will work closely with your squad members within a highly cooperative agile team. Effective communication skills are essential, as the role is expected to drive and participate a wide range of technical and non-technical discussions with various stakeholders.​

Above all, we seek a proactive self-starter who can champion Shift Left QE practices within the squad. Candidates interpersonal skills, energy, discipline, and enthusiasm to contribute to an engaging and innovative environment will make them a valuable addition to our team. ​

This role can be based in London or Leicester. .​

You will: ​

Quality Engineer responsibilities will include shaping a well-structured QA approach tailored to the squad's specific delivery initiatives.​

Responsible for defining and testing the Quality of the solution for the  initiatives within the sourcing & supply chain squads/delivery team. This role involves tasks such as outlining test plans and approaches, creating test automation scripts, data ,  developing frameworks and reports, as well as providing testing support throughout the solution's implementation across all environments up to production.​

• The QE will work with the delivery team participating in all estimation and planning sessions, defining test approach, and creating acceptance test criteria.​

• Bring value to requirements engineering (such as three-amigos conversations) to prevent quality issues arising from vague, inconsistent, or untestable requirements​

• Working with Product Managers and Engineers to identify and create in sprint Automated Test cases (Unit/Functional/Integration/UI)​

• Ability to pair with developers, read code, to provide informed comment on unit tests and their relationship to identified risks and prevent defects early in the lifecycle.​

• Support DevOps implementations through delivery of CI aligned test automation scripts​

• Work with other QEs to create & manage automation reports and regularly communicate to the team and wider stakeholders.​

• Be vocal in your opinions and approach to testing with the ability to shift engineering mindsets around ownership, quality, and trust.

The Ideal Candidate

• Competent at programming one or more languages JavaScript, Python, or Java.​

• Hands on experience in development of test automation scripts by following BDD methodology​

• Good hands-on experience in API, MiddleWare & Microservices test automation.​

• Comfortable using GitHub actions / Jenkins pipelines.​

• Individual should be proficient in using developer’s pipeline tools such as JEST, SonarQube, OWASP Zap.​

• Considerable experience on mocking and stubbing 3rd party applications​

• Hands on experience in maintaining test scripts and reporting using any test management tool. (Zephyr, JIRA etc) ​

• Experienced with different delivery lifecycles and service delivery methods​

• Solid understanding of the Testing Pyramid and its implementation in a Shift Left team. ​

• Strong experience of working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban as well as XP engineering techniques. ​

• Display strong working experience in the sourcing and supply chain area utilising both exploratory and automated test techniques​

• Having good functional and product knowledge of Merchandising, Forecasting, Pricing and Promotions, Product Buying, Warehouse Management, Store Inventory Management, Fulfilment from Store, Replenishment/Allocations solutions​

• Knowledge on some of these Retail products likes Automic, STEP, Red Prairie and Matflo, M-Netics IM2, Metapack, Oracle Retail Order Management/Order Broker is required for the role. ​

• Familiarity of middleware applications like SOA/ODI/MFT and MQ/IIB is desirable for this role​

About the Company

Rewards and benefits 

Here are just a few of our rewards and benefits that help make our team experience that bit more extraordinary. 

• Flexible working options to benefit you, your family and your wellbeing that can include part-time, flexi-time, job sharing or hybrid working

• Generous annual leave that increases with length of service 

• Up to five paid volunteering days – from beach cleans to co-ordinating food and clothing donations 

• Family leave that suits your set up including Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental leave policies 

• Defined pension contribution scheme  

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme  

• Enviable team member discount including sale previews and double discount days 

• Exclusive local discounts on a range of restaurants, bars, beauticians and entertainment 

• Subsidised gym memberships  

• A sustainable car salary sacrifice scheme (subject to eligibility criteria)

• Several internal communities to get involved in from our Diversity Board and Green Warriors who are leading the charge on D,E&I and sustainability, to the Wellbeings who are always thinking of new ways to champion healthy minds, bodies and routines for our team members 

• Workplace Options, our confidential team member assistance programme for when life gets tricky or you need a little guidance 

• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development 

Read on to find out how you can play your part in Reinventing Retail… 

Everyone is welcome 

Selfridges is a place where we want everyone to feel a sense of belonging. We embrace every self and are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are leading with purpose to not only increase the visibility and recognition of under-represented talent within our organisation, but the wider industry too. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome – irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all.   

To ensure every feels welcome, we offer support at every stage of the application and interview process.  Should you need it, please let your recruitment contact know and they will be more than happy to help.

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