POS Test Engineer

Department: Quality & Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Head Office, Chelsea House

Reporting To: Sharmila Kunwar

Description

Quality Assurance holds a vital place in River Island Engineering Strategy and is an integral part of the development team. It is indeed an exciting time for RI Tech as we are transitioning to microservices architecture and embracing a DevOps culture. We strive to continuously improve our development and testing processes to shorten feedback loops and maximise value.

We are looking for an experienced test engineer to champion QA in one of our cross-functional teams. With a thorough working knowledge of agile methodologies, you will engage proactively with the team to understand business requirements, elaborate user stories and define acceptance criteria. You will plan, define and execute testing of all project deliveries; triage issues found and report on progress. As a champion of quality assurance, you will help align testing strategy to enable us to be better and faster. You will champion and drive improvements in quality assurance in your team using test automation.

Key Responsibilities

Review and ensure requirements/user stories/acceptance criteria stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
Work as an embedded tester in the context of a scrum team, evaluating the complexity of user stories, contributing to estimates during sprint planning, developing and performing tests.
Champion a shift-left approach to in-sprint testing.
Conduct appropriate levels and types of testing of user stories.
Collaborate with developers on architecture and design, evaluate and improve processes to enhance software quality
Identify and inform the team of any impediments or risks to product quality or project delivery
Automate tests where cost-effective to ensure software delivered is fit for purpose and meets business needs
Ensure defects are documented in sufficient detail to be reproducible
Proactively share knowledge and information with others
Assist and support business users during user acceptance testing
Ensure all work is completed on time and under established processes, practices, procedures and quality standards

Who You Are

Extensive experience with agile quality assurance practices and in depth understanding of test- driven development, continuous integration, agile testing
Experience of test automation using any of the languages (Java, C#, JS, TS etc.)
Knowledge of Test Data provisioning and management for testing
Experience of planning, executing and validating tests across the full test spectrum (functional, non-functional, regression, integration, UAT, OAT etc)
Experience of Risk analysis and Risk Based Regression Testing
In depth knowledge of Exploratory testing techniques and Rapid software testing
Experience of testing complex enterprise applications, web applications and databases
Familiarity with any of the scripting languages (Shell/Python/Groovy etc.)
Experience of working with project/issue tracking tools like JIRA/Confluence and Test management tools like HP ALM (erstwhile QC), Zephyr, XRay etc

You Will Ideally Have

Experience in the Retail industry and exposure to testing on PoS systems, Mobile POS, Handhelds etc
Advance knowledge of SQL
Experience of API testing
SCM, Build & CI Tools like Github, Jenkins, TeamCity or similar
Cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure etc
Automated Test frameworks like Appium, Selenium WebDriver or similar
Experience working with 3rd party software vendor teams

About Us

We’re a much-loved brand with an exciting future. Our Islanders are a diverse bunch of bright, talented people who love working together – and are proud of the work they do. Progression here can take you in all kinds of directions. This is what a career at River Island is like. And this is where yours starts.

This role is based at our Head Office in West London. Check us out here on a map.

What we can offer you:

💰 Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself to the latest products, and a bargain staff shop on site!

🛒 Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through the Retail Trust.

🎉 A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café to fill you needs. Various social events to socialise throughout the year.

🤎 Every family is unique, we support Islanders with all different family setups enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment. We also work closely with the Retail Trust to create dedicated support for all our Islanders!

💻 Flexible working is a given, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.

💕 Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and receive matched funding.

🎓 Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications. A succession plan if you want to progress.

💰 A generous bonus scheme & private pension plan.

☀️ 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays. With the added option to purchase additional holiday twice a year for whatever the need!

Keeping You Safe

At River Island we are committed to the safeguarding of all of our employees regardless of age or job role. We will fulfil our obligation under the Prevent duty which seeks to stop extremism and extremist views from materialising in our business. We promote and encourage the belief in British Values- including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. To find out more, please visit www.gov.uk.

Our Island is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about this interview process, check out our hiring process below.

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