QA Automation Lead
- Employer
- Peregrine
- Location
- London, UK
- Salary
- Salary 75000 null
- Closing date
- 19 Jul 2022
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- Clearance Level
- None / Undisclosed
- Sector
- Administration / Secretarial, Aerospace, Banking, Biotechnology, Central Government, Construction
- Job Type
- Permanent
As a QE engineer within the Software Engineering organisation at Arqit, you'll get the chance to work on an exciting strategic product roadmap in one of the following areas:
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Satellite mission planning systems
Enterprise and consumer cybersecurity products
We'll work out which team you'd best fit during the interview process based on your previous experience and interests. Once you join your team, you'll be responsible for the test and support of software components and will be involved throughout the full SDLC using modern cloud architectures, frameworks, tools and languages.
This is a great opportunity to join our high-performing team and make a real-world impact as we scale on our exciting journey into an emerging technology space, working with talented teams of product managers, scientists, cryptographers, satellite systems engineers, designers and software architects and engineers.
About You
You're an intelligent innovator who thinks outside of the box with a record of delivering great results against the most complex of problems. You take ownership without being asked to, but you're also a team player with a relentless desire for your team to succeed. You're open, honest, and respectful, appreciating the value of diversity, and you enjoy the challenge of working in an ambiguous environment where no two days are the same. You recognise the need to work at pace but are also laser focussed on UX to ensure that what's delivered delights the end-user.
Typical Role Responsibilities:-
Working with and realising the vision of our stellar team of cyber experts to address security threats for today and the future.
Developing ground-breaking cybersecurity focused cloud PaaS and satellite systems, utilising modern distributed cloud technology stacks and your previous experiences to solve novel technical challenges.
Building and maintaining a quality driven engineering culture that helps ship products with confidence.
Work with product engineering team to ensure quality of product/feature, assess risk and ensure features ship with a very high quality bar.
Specify, create and execute system-level functional and non-functional automated tests for services and applications for public and hybrid/private clouds, cloud APIs, client SDKs, applications and software for a variety of platforms (IoT/mobile/server/appliance/laptop).
Using a risk-based testing approach, analyse changes to the software to determine areas for in-depth exploratory testing, defining an exploratory testing plan, executing the plan and finding hard to find bugs
Work within the software engineering team, defining suitable acceptance tests for each story in the backlog before being scheduled into a sprint
Raise defects in JIRA, and verifying the fixes
Helping to refine our agile development practices, ensuring the team continually delivers superior quality software by focussing on quality-driven software engineering practices.
Working with the Product Management team to help refine requirements and workflows, and use your customer focus to ensure world-class UX.
Investigating internal or customer related issues, identifying root cause and providing solutions.
Mentoring and coaching less experienced colleagues to help them realise their potential.
Reviewing technical documentation for accuracy and correctness
Essential Skills & Experience:
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BSc/MSc/BEng/MEng or equivalent in Computer Science, electronic engineering or related field, or significant commercial experience of developing complex mission-critical enterprise software and services.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
Thrives in an ambiguous environment
Experience of automated or manual testing
Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language
Experience in designing and developing/extending automation tools and frameworks
Experience in developing high quality test plans, test cases and executing them.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
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Experience with risk-based testing
Experience of FMEA
Experience working within the cybersecurity industry is a strong plus
Experience of triage, RCA for software issues within a distributed system
Working knowledge of applied cryptography
Exposure to database testing (SQL and NoSQL)
Experience working in an Agile SCRUM, or Lean Kanban environment
Experience with hardware security features across different compute and mobile platforms (e.g. TPM, SGX, SME/SEV, Keychain)
Working knowledge of testing API layer.
Professional software testing qualification e.g., ISTQB Foundation
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