Job Specifications
At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.
Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.
Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success.
As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we're looking for someone who will be excited by the potential for Engine's technology to transform banking in different markets around the world.
Hybrid Working
We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.
About The Role
We're looking for someone to lead our QA function, you will perform both functional and non-functional testing of our mobile and web applications, ensuring that they perform as expected and they meet our very high standards. We are looking for someone who will advocate for testing throughout the lifecycle of the product and who takes pride in ensuring we are releasing good quality software that helps our customers.
In this role, you'll work with our engineers to enhance our test-driven development approach to building applications. We aim for a very high level of test automation across our applications so we can deploy to production many times a day. Our engineers are responsible for understanding the desired behaviour of the code they are writing and testing.
You will be expected to use your own initiative to test and validate features, functional controls and logic flows, as well as plan and execute regression testing. You are looking for the missed edge cases, verifying behaviour on a variety of devices and form factors and looking for consistency issues between our platforms. You'll monitor and drive improvements, and communicate identified risks or issues to the wider team.
At Engine, we spend our time building products that we're really proud of. We focus on the experience, often delivering things with real polish but sometimes making a fast strategic move. We think being good at product requires clear communication, a sense of focus, and to challenge the conventional ways of doing things. We're open-minded when it comes to hiring, we care more about skills and attitude than specific experience or qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
Develop comprehensive test strategies and plans and execute them.
Understand the requirements from technical and business specifications, ensuring our products are built in line with them.
Manage and scale our existing QA team, ensuring that the team's goals align with our company strategy.
Helping with regression tests and feature testing.
Implement and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts
Mentor and provide technical guidance to other QA team members
Requirements
Experienced tester who can work under their own initiative, in an autonomous manner, collaborating with all areas of Engine, including engineers, product designers and product owners
5+ years of experience with automated testing of applications across iOS, Android and web.
Experience automating E2E user journeys - ideally with mobile applications, at Engine we QA mainly use Maestro
Able to analyse risk, severity, and impact of issues identified and work with the wider team to prioritise and resolve them
Maintain an adaptable, pragmatic approach to testing; switching modes to meet the needs of the company
Good understanding of user experience best practices and UX testing
Experience in managing, mentoring and knowledge sharing with team members
Nice to have
Experience in banking/fintechs
Experience working in a SaaS company with scale.
Interview process
Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:
Stage 1 - 45 mins with someone from the tech team
Stage 2 - 60 min with two team members
Stage 3 - Final with either CTO/ Deputy CTO or Engineering Director
Benefits
33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
An extra day's holiday for your birthday
Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you
About the Company
Hello, we’re Starling.
Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
We built Britain’s first digital bank.
One hard-won banking licence later, we set about giving people a new way to spend, save and manage their money (and take better care of the planet, too).
We’re changing banking for good.
Back then, we were obsessed with unravelling the knotty world of finance and solving people’s problems rather than selling them ...
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