QA Engineer with Automation & CI/CD Leadership
hace 8 días
London
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. • 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, • 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, • Group Personal Pension Scheme between 3% and 9%, • Private Medical Insurance, • 25 Paid days of annual leave, • Interest Free Season Ticket Loan, • Holiday #J-18808-Ljbffr