QA Automation Engineer

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay and we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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About the role

As the QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for running and developing integrated tests to support the platform management team. This will involve defining, maintaining and updating test environments, as well as working with the teams to implement automation of these using IaC and working as a squad to automate tasks across the infrastructure landscape using familiar and new tooling. Tesco Mobile has a QA and Development teams responsible for Integration/UAT testing.

You will be responsible for

• Be a great teammate – live the Tesco Mobile values
• Work with the Chapter Lead to agree improvements to integration testing and the Platform Automation Engineer to automate the setup and tear-down of test environments as needed
• Define and refine integration test strategy
• Act as the domain expert for QA Automation
• Build integration tests for newly developed solutions
• Work as part of the team to solve sophisticated cross-business technical problems
• Work together with the Development and QA teams to increase test coverage
• Share knowledge with other members of the squad

You will need

• ISEB/ITSQB Foundation/Agile foundation
• ISTQB Test Manager
• Experience in software quality assurance and testing, including test planning, test execution, efficient time management, and defect management
• Significant commercial experience automating integration testing using industry-recognised tools
• Preferable skills to include API integration testing, Postman scripting, XRAY Jira test management, Telecommunications principals, DevOps principals, eCommerce principals, Salesforce, Confluence, Jira
• Experience load testing and performance testing
• Ability to assess test coverage and identify gaps to address
• Experience handling data security in testing (anonymisation, pseudonymisation)
• Experience with cloud providers AWS and Azure
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Automation experience using a variety of tools and languages including AWS CLI, python, etc
• SQL experience
• Willingness to learn new skills

Nice to have:

• Experience maintaining and updating infrastructure using IaC tooling
• Source code systems and branching strategies; Github and Github Actions
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques, approaches and tools, including experience with the GitHub and GitHub Actions

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About us

A 50-50 joint venture between Tesco and VMO2 that was established back in 2003, Tesco Mobile has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services and markets. With more than 5 million customers, we’re the largest mobile virtual network operator in the UK. We’re proud to have an inclusive culture that’s uniquely Tesco Mobile, with a strong sense of community, plus all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders.

We care for human connection and we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, which is why we’ve embraced the Agile way of working. Agile is more than just a methodology – it’s a liberating journey that puts customers and purpose first. It empowers us to self-organise, collaborate, co-create and rapidly inspect and adapt everything we do – allowing us to respond at pace to our customers’ needs. It encourages variety of thought and enables us to thrive, both individually and collectively.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.