Quality Engineer - Front Ends; FTC)

Position: Quality Engineer - Front Ends (12 month FTC)
Location: Greater London

The Role Quality Engineers are at the heart of every Development team in Trayport and are key to the delivery of our software. Candidates are passionate about delivering high quality software, always having our customers at the centre providing the best user experience possible. As much as they love the challenge of finding defects or investigating issues, they are constantly thinking of ways to prevent them in the first place.

Quality Engineers at Trayport take ownership of all aspects of quality, from ideation all the way through to monitoring in production. From requirements and architecture to CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and production observability, our QEs ensure our systems are resilient, performant, and stable.

Our Quality Engineers use a combination of shift-left and shift-right testing techniques, exploratory testing, technical testing and test automation to build quality into our software, working closely with the rest of their team and coaching others on how to write better software. For us, teamwork is everything. We listen to each other, we adapt, we evolve and we strive to innovate.

We are making significant investments in our business and we will invest in you.

The Team Our team is responsible for development of modern mobile and web trading applications allowing traders from all over the world to access energy markets. We work closely with our customers to meet their needs in this dynamically evolving space. Our team is proud and passionate of their work with everyone working closely together to deliver high quality, customer focused software.

We use the latest technologies and heavily invest in AI, constantly optimizing our workflows without compromising on quality.

Your role as a quality engineer is to collaborate closely with developers, product owners, Dev Ops and other departments to build high quality, client-centric products. You are the person who is aware of the latest trends and has the courage to incorporate them into our workflows. You are also a great team player caring for each other’s success and wellbeing. This role is ideal for someone who has some technical background and wants to go deeper.

If you are interested in growing your career and developing your skillset in a supportive and friendly environment, we want to hear from you!

Our Tech Stack/ToolsC#.Net Type Script React Power Shell Docker Network  testing tools

Azure Dev Ops Splunk Elastic  Search and Grafana Git Hub  Copilot Responsibilities Shift -left and drive a 'Quality-by-Design' culture by actively participating in requirements analysis, architecture reviews, PRD and RFC reviews, identifying risks before the code is written

Design risk based test strategies, plans and perform session based exploratory testing to find unique bugs at the correct quality level

Actively contribute to automation to ensure and maintain comprehensive quality coverage

Synthesize multiple sources of information to investigate and perform root cause analysis on issues

Promote the use of AI in novel ways to support and optimize the team's processes and strategies

Advocate for architectural changes that improve system testability

Collaborate with Dev Ops and Engineering teams to integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring verification is a prerequisite for deployment

Lead initiatives to modernise test environments to mirror production conditions

Ensure all development and test documentation is written to a high standard, kept up to date, and circulated within the team Shift-right by designing and maintaining release strategies that prioritise system stability, such as canary deployments, feature flagging, and zero-downtime deployments

Contribute to the design and implementation of observability strategies (metrics, logs, traces) that provide actionable insights into system health

Use production telemetry to drive proactive improvements and performance tuning

Actively grow our culture of quality and engage in quality-related topics across the organisation

Act as a point of contact regarding product knowledge for various members of the business

Design and run training sessions with other testers and developers across the company to share techniques and product knowledge

Define and execute the quality strategy for your team, coaching and mentoring other team members to ensure software quality is considered throughout the development process

The Person A strong background in software quality and exploratory testing

Ability to understand complex,…