Quality Engineer responsible for assuring quality in production across two sites in Germany. Focused on quality planning, supplier management, and process evaluations with a critical technical understanding.
About the role
- Functional Test Analyst responsible for software quality assurance in the evolving technology landscape. Engaging with teams to uphold quality and validate vendor deliverables throughout project lifecycles.
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in refinement sessions, questioning and clarifying requirements to uncover gaps, ambiguities, or assumptions.
- Ensure acceptance criteria are clear, testable, and aligned with business value.
- Promote a culture of quality across the team, pushing back where deliverables do not meet agreed quality standards.
- Review and validate work produced by third-party vendors/outsource partners, ensuring outputs meet contractual KPIs and SLAs.
- Define comprehensive test strategies that include positive, negative, boundary, edge, and exploratory testing.
- Plan targeted regression suites, ensuring appropriate test coverage for both functional and non-functional aspects.
- Consider upstream and downstream system impacts, ensuring end-to-end integrity of the business process.
- Incorporate vendor-delivered scripts into overall test coverage plans, ensuring alignment with internal quality expectations.
- Design, develop, and execute functional and UAT test cases to validate business requirements, including data validation (numbers, calculations, and results integrity).
- Verify integration and data flows between systems, ensuring downstream processes are not adversely affected by changes.
- Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and other stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of quality goals.
- Use automation and AI-assisted testing where appropriate to increase efficiency and accuracy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years in software quality assurance, functional testing, or a related role with financial services experience (TA experience an advantage).
- Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, including boundary analysis, equivalence partitioning, negative testing, and regression testing.
- Proficiency in creating clear, detailed, and traceable test plans, scripts, and reports.
- Solid understanding of SQL and ability to validate data in back-end systems.
- Experience working within agile/scrum teams, with the ability to contribute to sprint refinement and planning.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to challenge and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Adaptable and able to multi-task across multiple scrums.
- ISTQB certification (Foundation or higher) is advantageous.
Benefits
- Enhanced leave - 38 days inclusive of 8 UK Public Holidays
- Private Health Care including family cover
- Life Assurance – 5x salary
- Flexible working – work from home and/or in our London Office
- Employee Assistance Program
- Company Pension (Salary Sacrifice options available)
- Access to training and development
- Buy and Sell holiday scheme
- The opportunity for “work from anywhere/global mobility”
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