Internship – Quality Engineer

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Quality Engineer Internship

We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our Actuarial Public Client Applications Team to help us increase the coverage of our automated CI test pack. The successful candidate will be a confident Quality Engineer able to take a pragmatic, yet well-structured approach to developing and enhancing test frameworks.
Our firm invests in the very latest technologies to facilitate the delivery of our ground-breaking business solutions. Our teams are passionate about working at the cutting edge and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to use the most up to date range of Microsoft product technology solutions including Azure and be part of a team that employs an agile approach to software test design and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Extend our Continuous Integration automated test pack written in Typescript using Cypress for our market leading FRM platform.
• Ensuring high quality deployments:
– Continuous integration
– Unit/integration test at project level
• Helping to maintain the quality of code being deployed to production:
– Continuous testing, Monitoring, Azure resources
• API test automation with a focus on contract testing and health checks.
• Test planning: create test plans, specifications and estimates from a quality assurance perspective.
• Keeps up to date with the current Quality Assurance tools, techniques, and practices
• Adhere to the firm’s Information Security standards, professionalism requirements (as applicable), policies and procedures

What we’re looking for
Experience, skills and personal characteristics:
• Comfortable working with Cypress (https://www.cypress.io/) with minimal support is essential.
• Comfortable working with Typescript or JavaScript.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI pipelines would be beneficial.
• Good knowledge and experience of applying best practice software engineering.
• Experience of working within an agile environment as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively with all members of the software delivery team.
• Familiar with and confident across the entire Software Development Lifecycle.
• Collaborative and good team player.
• Self-motivated with a drive to learn and share knowledge.
• Attention to detail
• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation level certified preferred.
• Experience of using Software development and Testing tools, Visual Studio/Rider, Git, AzureDevOps, SQL Server Management Studio, Spec Flow/Cucumber, Selenium.

Benefits of working with us

This is a fast-paced role in a growing early-stage company and the above list of tasks and responsibilities is not exhaustive. As a member of our small team you will have the opportunity to be involved in a broader range of activities than those described above, and to develop your HR, client facing and consultancy skills.

This role offers an ambitious individual fantastic scope to learn and progress. In addition we offer:

–          Hybrid working arrangements (partly working from home, partly office based)

–          A range of formal and informal training and learning opportunities

–          25days holidays (pro-rata for part-time/ temporary staff)

Reports to Delivery Lead / Senior Quality Engineer

Hours per week 35 hours

Duration 12 weeks

Commencing 3 June 2024

Remote/Office/Hybrid Hybrid – Edinburgh or Glasgow

Salary £420 per week

How To Apply

1. If you are not already a BPU member, register for free with Black Professionals United Kingdom by following this link https://blackprofessionals.uk/register/
2. Send a CV (2 pages max) and covering letter (250 words max) to workplacements@blackprofessionals.uk.
3. In the subject field of your application email, simply type “BPS012 – Name” so if your name is John Mensah, kindly type “BPS012 – John Mensah”

NOTE: Ensure to reference yourself as a member of Black Professionals United Kingdom in your application.