Senior QA Engineer Data

Collinson is the global privatelyowned 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 marketleading airport experiences loyalty and customer engagement and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass the worlds original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1500 lounges and travel experiences including dining retail sleep and spa in over 650 airports in 148 countries helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the worlds leading payment networks over 1400 banks 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 global colleagues.

Purpose of the job

The role of a Senior QA Engineer is to collaborate and work within agile scrum teams ensuring Functional and nonfunctional 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.

Key Responsibilities
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.
Use the appropriate test automation framework in Specflow.
Contribute to continuous testing in the CI/CD pipeline.
Follow Test Data and Test Case execution processes.
Provide the link between the development team and business representatives regarding testing and quality.
Detect bugs and issues as early as possible log and prioritise.
Conducted 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 purpose.
Prevent bugs and issues by thinking of relevant scenarios to help meet the validation of acceptance criteria at the story development stage.
Be the advocate for quality when testing is being discussed.
Support UAT testing.
Bring value to requirements engineering (such as threeamigos conversations) to prevent quality issues arising from requirements drive and implement the Shift Left QA approach.

Team Working
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 testingrelated 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
Knowledge skills and experience required
Good understanding of agile software development lifecycle including opensource test
Experience working in a fastpaced Agile team with CI/CD and c#.
Experience in automating using Specflow.
Experience in using AWS services i.e. S3 Glue Step Functions Cloudwatch and Code Build.
Proficiency in SQL for data validation and querying purposes.
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.
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: Act smarter 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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