Quality Engineer (Android)
Overview:
We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better.We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
What's the job?:
We are going through an exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and eager to learn Android Quality Engineer to join our Engineering team. As a QE for this team, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of the data that is produced for use by our front-end teams.
We aspire to grow a world-class engineering function, pioneering in the retail technology space, and making great software within a growth culture that is always looking for the next thing to improve or adapt to meet our customers’ needs.
If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact by building better software, this is the job for you!
Responsibilities:
- The delivery of testing for the Engineering Squad.
- Contribute to show & tell sessions to communicate with stakeholders
- Able to (or have a development plan in place, towards having ability to) contribute hands-on to test automation (ways of working, best practice, scripting and execution).
- Perform manual test scripting/execution if required.
- Able to execute all levels of testing (front end, back end, API/integration and regression).
- Detect, report & track defects and inconsistencies.
- Collaborate and contribute with team to support estimation.
What you'll bring:
- Comfortable working in an Engineering Squad with Software & Quality Engineers to support continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback sessions.
- Being the voice of quality across the software development lifecycle.
- Build strong rapport with business stakeholders to gain context perspective on priority and criticality of test coverage.
- Understand and break down requirements to determine the testing types required.
- Understand the automation lifecycle within your area of work.
- Understand how to apply automation best practice across Unit testing, contract/integration testing vs full end to end automated tests.
- Comfortable with troubleshooting and problem solving.
Requirements:
- Proven experience (3+ years) as an Android QA Engineer.
- Experience in debugging REST, GraphQL with proxy tools.
- Hands-on experience with test management tools and defect tracking systems.
- Solid understanding of Quality Assurance within Agile methodologies
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Effective communication and leadership abilities, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Can demonstrate or provide evidence of the ability to bring innovative ideas into the mobile apps division that have made positive changes to the QA process.
- Experience in testing Android and iOS native apps
- I listen to my customers
- I use available data to help make decisions
- I do the right thing
- I am respectful
- I build and share new ideas
- I try new things and share my learnings
- I have courage to be creative
- Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20
- I embrace allyship
- I have self-awareness and a desire to learn
- I own my actions
- I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!
We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
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