QA Agile Engineer Tesco Mobile
| Posting date: | 22 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive with Excellent Benefits Package |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 February 2025 |
| Location: | None, None |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/17107948/925996 |
Summary
About the role
You will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of software products developed by an Agile development team. You will work with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to define test strategies, plan, user stories and execute tests, provide feedback on product quality throughout the development lifecycle. Your role will involve leveraging Agile principles and practices to drive quality improvements and facilitate the delivery of high-quality software. We have several squads covering our key technologies and responsibilities:
- Carehub – In-life customer support systems used by colleagues in Call Centres (Voice & Web-Chat) and our in-store colleagues at our Phone Shops. The tech stack is primarily based on SalesForce Service Cloud with integrations to other systems, such as IVRs and other backend systems.
- eCommerce squad – Responsible for our customer (tescomobile.com) and colleague (Phone Shops and Call Centres) facing sales and retention platform. The tech stack is based on Adobe Magento and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) with integration to many back-end payment, billing and fulfilment systems.
- Tech & Data– Infrastructure, monitoring / logging of all the Engineering systems and applications, software development tools and pipelines used across Tesco Mobile.
You will be responsible for
- Work with the development team to understand requirements and user stories and derive test objectives and strategies.
- Define and maintain test plans, test cases, and test scripts in alignment with Agile principles and project goals.
- Identify test data requirements and create or acquire necessary test data sets.
- Contribute to the creation and maintenance of an efficient and effective test automation framework.
- Execute functional, integration, system, and regression tests according to the defined test strategies and plans.
- Identify and document defects with clear steps to reproduce, including relevant logs and screenshots.
- Work closely with developers to investigate, debug, and resolve defects, ensuring their timely closure.
- Perform exploratory testing and provide feedback on usability, performance, and other non-functional aspects.
- Collaborate with the team to establish and maintain a robust CI/CD pipeline.
- Automate test execution and integrate testing into the CI/CD process.
- Monitor automated test results and investigate failures to ensure accurate and reliable test outcomes.
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Provide timely and accurate updates on test progress, defects, and quality metrics.
- Advocate for quality best practices, including code reviews, static analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members to continuously enhance the quality of the software being developed.
- Create and maintain comprehensive test documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test reports.
- Generate and present test metrics, including test coverage, defect trends, and release readiness.
- Identify areas for process improvement and recommend innovative solutions to enhance the overall testing efficiency and effectiveness.
- Conduct test process assessments and implement necessary improvements.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in testing and quality assurance.
You will need
- ISEB/ITSQB Foundation/Agile foundation
- ISTQB Test Manager
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Proven experience in software quality assurance and testing, including test planning, test execution, efficient time management, and defect management.
- Preferable skills to include API integration testing, Postman scripting, XRAY Jira test management, Telecommunications principals, DevOps principals, eCommerce principals, Salesforce, Confluence, Jira
- Proficiency in using test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira and confluence.
- Familiarity with test automation tools Selenium, Provar, Post.
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycles and processes.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality software.
- Knowledge of programming languages to write automated tests is a plus.
#LI-AF2
#LI-Hybrid
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme