Posted 19 days ago
Description
Описание:
Universal Music Group UK is the UK's leading music-based entertainment company. It shapes culture through artistry and helps UK artists produce, distribute, and promote critically acclaimed and commercially successful music for audiences worldwide.
Задачи:
- Act as a quality leader, mentor, and strategic contributor across delivery teams
- Own overall product or platform quality
- Define QA strategy, test approaches, release quality standards, and automation standards
- Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities
- Influence engineering teams and challenge requirements or delivery plans where quality risks exist
- Balance delivery speed with quality, maintainability, security, and scalability
- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level QA engineers
- Manage stakeholders across product, engineering, architecture, DevOps, and delivery teams
- Translate business requirements into testable acceptance criteria
- Facilitate refinement, planning, retrospectives, and release readiness discussions
- Identify gaps in processes, tooling, environments, and automation coverage
- Promote a shared quality mindset across the team
- Document test strategies, automation standards, release risks, and quality reports
- Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks
- Select tools for UI, API, integration, contract, performance, and end-to-end testing
- Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable automation suitable for CI/CD
- Reduce flaky tests and improve automation execution speed
- Define frontend test coverage across unit, component, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers
- Write or maintain automated UI tests
- Test complex user journeys, state management, routing, validation, authentication, and accessibility
- Advise on testability improvements in frontend code
- Test REST APIs, service boundaries, integrations, retries, failure modes, and resilience patterns
- Contribute to test strategy for micro-services and distributed systems
- Validate API contracts, error handling, edge cases, and integration points
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality gates
- Test applications deployed to cloud-based environments
- Test caching, indexing, search accuracy, data consistency, and data migration scenarios
- Design robust test data strategies across integrated environments
- Create test cases, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria
Требования:
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong risk-based decision-making and pragmatic trade-off skills
- Strong programming ability in C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant automation language
- Deep understanding of Page Object Model, Screenplay, API client abstraction, test fixtures, reusable test data builders, and service mocks
- Good understanding of web application testing, especially Angular-based applications
- Experience testing UI behaviour, forms, validation, routing, authentication flows, and browser compatibility
- Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser developer tools
- Experience testing REST APIs and strong knowledge of API authentication, authorisation, routing, middleware behaviour, configuration, validation, and error handling
- Good understanding of C# and .NET application architecture
- Experience with contract testing, service virtualisation, mocking, and stubbing
- Experience using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Understanding of configuration differences across development, test, staging, and production-like environments
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes from a testing and deployment perspective
- Strong SQL skills for test data setup, validation, and investigation
- Experience testing systems that use Redis, Elasticsearch, or other NoSQL technologies
- Strong understanding of boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, decision tables, exploratory testing, Agile delivery, Scrum, and Kanban
- Nice to have: Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Swagger, Insomnia, REST‑assured-style frameworks, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, AWS pipelines, and Angular
Условия:
- Group Personal Pension Scheme between 3% and 9%
- Private Medical Insurance
- 25 Paid days of annual leave
- Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
- Holiday
