Qa engineer; auto) music platforms Job London area,Greater London England UK,Software Development

Описание:

Universal Music Group UK is the UK's leading music-based entertainment company. It shapes culture through artistry and helps UK artists produce, distribute, and promote critically acclaimed and commercially successful music for audiences worldwide.

Задачи:

Act as a quality leader, mentor, and strategic contributor across delivery teams
Own overall product or platform quality
Define QA strategy, test approaches, release quality standards, and automation standards
Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities
Influence engineering teams and challenge requirements or delivery plans where quality risks exist
Balance delivery speed with quality, maintainability, security, and scalability
Mentor and coach junior and mid-level QA engineers
Manage stakeholders across product, engineering, architecture, Dev Ops, and delivery teams
Translate business requirements into testable acceptance criteria
Facilitate refinement, planning, retrospectives, and release readiness discussions
Identify gaps in processes, tooling, environments, and automation coverage
Promote a shared quality mindset across the team
Document test strategies, automation standards, release risks, and quality reports
Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks
Select tools for UI, API, integration, contract, performance, and end-to-end testing
Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable automation suitable for CI/CD
Reduce flaky tests and improve automation execution speed
Define frontend test coverage across unit, component, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers
Write or maintain automated UI tests
Test complex user journeys, state management, routing, validation, authentication, and accessibility
Advise on testability improvements in frontend code
Test REST APIs, service boundaries, integrations, retries, failure modes, and resilience patterns
Contribute to test strategy for micro-services and distributed systems
Validate API contracts, error handling, edge cases, and integration points
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality gates
Test applications deployed to cloud-based environments
Test caching, indexing, search accuracy, data consistency, and data migration scenarios
Design robust test data strategies across integrated environments
Create test cases, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria

Требования:

Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong risk-based decision-making and pragmatic trade-off skills
Strong programming ability in C#, JavaScript, Type Script, or another relevant automation language
Deep understanding of Page Object Model, Screenplay, API client abstraction, test fixtures, reusable test data builders, and service mocks
Good understanding of web application testing, especially Angular-based applications
Experience testing UI behaviour, forms, validation, routing, authentication flows, and browser compatibility
Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser developer tools
Experience testing REST APIs and strong knowledge of API authentication, authorisation, routing, middleware behaviour, configuration, validation, and error handling
Good understanding of C# and .NET application architecture
Experience with contract testing, service virtualisation, mocking, and stubbing
Experience using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Understanding of configuration differences across development, test, staging, and production-like environments
Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes from a testing and deployment perspective
Strong SQL skills for test data setup, validation, and investigation
Experience testing systems that use Redis, Elasticsearch, or other No

SQL technologies
Strong understanding of boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, decision tables, exploratory testing, Agile delivery, Scrum, and Kanban
Nice to have:
Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Swagger, Insomnia, REST‑assured-style frameworks, Git Hub Actions, Azure Pipelines, AWS pipelines, and Angular

Условия:

Group Personal Pension Scheme between 3% and 9%
Private Medical Insurance
25 Paid days of annual leave
Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
Holiday