Software Engineer in Test

Senior Quality Engineer/SDET Team Lead

Who are 118118 Money?

At 118 118 Money, we are dedicated to helping Britain achieve financial fitness. In 2023, we proudly relaunched the iconic 118 118 twins, reaffirming our commitment to improving the financial health of individuals across the nation. Our loans and credit cards are designed specifically for those often overlooked by mainstream lenders, empowering over 800,000 customers on their journey to better financial well-being.

Our vision is to champion financial fitness throughout Britain by offering accessible products, valuable resources, and unwavering support. We are on a mission to provide fair and transparent credit solutions that promote financial well-being for all.

With an impressive 4.8 Trustpilot rating, we take pride in being an approachable lender, ready to provide clear financial support. If you’re inspired by what you’ve read and want to make a real difference in people's lives, keep reading — your next opportunity to contribute to our mission could be just a few clicks away!

What you'll be doing

We're looking for an experienced, hands-on technical Quality Engineer to lead the transformation of our QA capabilities into a fully-fledged QE practice. This role is pivotal in enhancing the quality of our software products and customer services by integrating advanced testing methodologies and pioneering automation techniques. As the leader of our Quality Engineering team, you will collaborate closely with our software development team to deliver our test automation strategy.

Key responsibilities and objectives:

• Be technical and hands-on in Quality Engineering with primary objectives to improve testing efficiency, quality and outcomes.
• Lead the Quality Engineering team, including line management.
• Work alongside engineering teams to understand objectives, capture automation requirements and code/integrate them into the testing framework.
• Contribute to the develop of performance metrics for automated testing and system behaviour.
• Be a significant contributor to the design and development of our automation strategy and test framework.
• Design, development, debug and implementation of test automation scripts.
• Review of test script code and implement automation best practices.
• Deliver approaches to identify root causes of issues, resulting in reduction of time to resolution.
• Operationalise automation procedures every day to maintain consistent high-performance testing.

What you need:

• Strong, proven experience in software QA, test program development and automated testing.
• Hands on experience with a variety of test tools and frameworks including but not limited to Selenium, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber/Gherkin. Proficient with REST/RESTFUL web-services, Git hub, TeamCity, Octopus, Jenkins, Postman.
• Proficiency with C#. Python experience advantageous.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms (AWS) and DevOps concepts (serverless frameworks, pipelines)
• Team leadership and line management experience.
• You will be flexible and responsive, with the ability to adjust and change direction as the business environment and technology universe evolves and changes.

What's in it for you?

• A competitive salary.
• Flexible, hybrid working opportunities.
• Company bonus scheme - if the business does well, you should get rewarded for your hard work.
• 25 days' annual leave, (plus bank holidays) increasing to 27 after two years service and 30 after five.
• Company pension scheme – we provide an enhanced pension scheme with generous employer contributions to set you up for the future which includes life cover of 4x your base salary.
• Eye test – you can claim a freebie each year, or if your needs change.
• Employee Assistance Programme - we offer membership to a recognised scheme to support you and your wellbeing.
• A strong ethos of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Wide business exposure, in terms of business disciplines, projects and stakeholders.
• Direct contribution to business transformation and growth.
• Huge learning and career progression opportunities.
• Being valued as an individual from our team.
• Full training, support and mentoring to develop a successful career in financial services.

Like what you’ve heard? Great - apply now!

As a candidate, we know the interview process can be daunting and it’s important that you have a great experience with us. We will do all we can to make sure you are fully informed and excited by our story so we get to see the best from you. If you need any adjustments made to help you with the interview process, just let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate them.

Following your application, we will want to learn more about you, your motivations, experiences, and values. In turn, you get to learn about our business, our culture, the role and what we can offer you.

If you think you’d be great for the role, but don’t necessarily tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, so apply today and take the first step towards an exciting future!

Equal Opportunity Employer

At 118 118 Money we are passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to being representative of different cultures, background, lifestyles, and groups, where everyone has an equal chance to succeed. It is our policy to treat everyone fairly and to ensure no one is disadvantaged or receives less favourable treatment. We recognise that everyone has different needs and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are more than happy to have a conversation about it.

How we handle your data

118 118 Money requires your personal data to process your application for a position within our Company. If your application is successful through to telephone screening/interview, and you are not selected for a role, we may store your personal data for 12 months to enable our HR team to contact you should future roles be advertised.

Where you apply, but are not selected for telephone screening/interview, we will delete your personal data once the position is filled.

118 118 Money does not use automated decisioning or profiling when selecting candidates.

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Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements