Senior QA Engineer in Haywards Heath

We use our expertise and products to craft customer experiences. Our range of services helps global brands acquire, engage and retain choice-rich customers. Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

The role of a Senior QA Engineer is to collaborate and work within agile scrum teams ensuring functional and non-functional testing has been done to mitigate risks for the solution/delivery. You will work closely with the agile team members, such as Product Owners, Analysts, Developers and Technical Leads and champion quality through understanding business risk and impact and ensure that an accurate quality level is assessed and communicated for the application under test.

You will assess what tests are suitable for regression and automate tests depending on the requirement. Mentor the testers in the team on tools and techniques.

• Prepare test cases corresponding to business and functional requirements.
• Carry out both manual and automated tests to establish the quality of the software under test.
• Work with the team in all estimations and planning sessions, defining and creating test criteria.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for data pipelines and data lake components.
• Validate data ingestion, transformation, and storage processes across AWS services.
• Collaborate with data engineers, developers, and product teams to define test strategies and acceptance criteria.
• Perform data quality checks, schema validations, and integrity testing on large datasets.
• Monitor and troubleshoot test failures, data anomalies, and pipeline issues.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines by integrating automated tests.
• Document test plans, test cases, and QA best practices for data lake projects.
• Follow Test Data and Test Case execution processes.
• Conduct functional, integration, and regression testing of data ingestion and transformation processes.
• Utilise AWS services such as S3, Glue jobs, Step Functions, Cloudwatch logs for validation purposes.
• Be the advocate for quality when testing is being discussed.
• Support UAT testing.
• Bring value to requirements engineering (such as three-amigos conversations) to prevent quality issues arising from requirements, drive and implement the Shift Left QA approach.

• Identify and communicate patterns to improve software development.
• Advocate and evangelise for best practices like Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Help to maintain and develop automated test suites, aiming for constant improvement.
• Provide regular and accurate reports of progress.
• Compile user guides, documentation, and instruction pages for other QA team members.
• Be the point of contact for testing within a Scrum team.
• Make testing-related decisions on behalf of the Scrum team.
• Look for gaps in the process and seek to make improvements.
• Assist with interviewing new candidates.
• Help new starters with the onboarding process.
• Mentor new QA team members in testing and in test automation.

• Solid understanding of data lake architecture, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts.
• Experience in using AWS services, i.e. S3, Glue, Step Functions, Cloudwatch and Code Build.
• Experience in Python for scripting and test automation.
• Familiarity with tools like PyTest or similar data testing frameworks.
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation and querying purposes.
• Good understanding of agile software development lifecycle, including open-source test.
• Experience working in a fast-paced Agile team with CI/CD.
• Experience in testing API using Postman.
• Experience in using any test management tools.
• Knowledge of software testing, methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Experience in using JIRA.
• Experience in using GitHub/TeamCity/Code Deploy/Code Pipeline.
• Extensive knowledge of automating, debugging and maintaining API tests and frameworks.
• Understand and apply SOLID principles for patterns in developing Automation frameworks.
• Ability to work with team members to troubleshoot problems and ensure that all relevant personnel are informed of progress.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and time management skills; efficient team player; readily adapts to new technologies and environments; ability to work well in a team or as an individual.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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