Lead Test Engineer - BI/Data - #1716378

Creditsafe are expanding their internal Customer Management platform team, the backbone of all Creditsafe products and services. We’re looking for a Senior Test Engineer experienced in testing cloud-native software systems. This role requires someone who can foster team collaboration and ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Our journey began in Oslo, Norway in 1997, where we had a dream of using the ‘revolutionary’ internet to deliver instant access company credit reports to small and medium-sized businesses. Our continued success has made us the most used business data provider in the world and one of the industry’s strongest growing business intelligence providers. Today Creditsafe has 23 offices across 3 continents serving 110,000 customers from SMEs to enterprise businesses.

This opportunity is to join an Agile team of system and test engineers who are responsible for a critical Creditsafe platform underpinning all our products and services. The team continue to extend the platform to support Creditsafe’s growing product portfolio whilst re-imagining using best-of-breed AWS technologies.

The wider Quality Assurance community within Creditsafe work together in driving a culture of quality into the teams acting as knowledge experts on quality. We test throughout the lifecycle and believe that the whole team is responsible for the quality of our deliverables. Collaborate with the Agile team throughout the Sprint to produce valuable test scenarios and respond to new information.

Be an advocate for quality and actively promote this within your team and the wider development community in Creditsafe.

Coach and mentor other engineers in the wider QA community in Creditsafe.

Support and mentor team members in all aspects of quality, building and owning a culture of good QA practice.

Provide line management to Test Engineers.

Leverage opportunities using internally provided generative AI to improve process and quality.

Develop and maintain test artefacts created using tools such as Cypress, Bruno and Azure Devops.

Carry out functional, non-functional and acceptance testing in-line with the test strategy and processes.

Use generative AI to reduce repetitive manual activity, improve product quality and Agileprocesses.

Work closely with their Agile team to promote a whole team approach to quality.

Manage and coordinate regression testing as part of the development cycle.

Be the quality specialist within your Agile team, advocating for the appropriate levels of testing and take the initiative to make improvements.

Document approaches and processes that improve the quality effort for use by team members and the wider QA community.

Have strong practical knowledge of software testing techniques and the ability to select the correct technique dependent on the problem at hand.

A good understanding of Agile development methodologies.

Knowledge of ATDD, BDD, Unit testing, Integration testing and Acceptance testing

An ability to read and write Python or JavaScript code suitably optimised for automation.

A good understanding of the defect management lifecycle.

Practical understanding of AWS Cloud services, with good knowledge and experience of serverless and cloud-native solutions.

Experience working with data pipelines and delivery would be advantageous.

Practical experience of modern frameworks for testing UIs and APIs, e.g. JavaScript, Cypress, Bruno and automation of regression packs within deployment pipelines.

An understanding of performance testing strategies and how to apply them.

Teamwork – Encourages cooperation, collaboration and communication both within their team and the wider test community

Experience of line management is desirable, including performance development planning, monitoring objectives, etc.

Creditsafe is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity.