Non-Functional Testing Engineer
Working at our iconic office in King’s Cross, London.
Your new role at NewDay
As we transform our QA team into QE function to accelerate the flow of QUALITY product to our customers at NewDay! We're looking for some strong hands on technical quality engineers to help us achieve it.
The Quality Engineering teams that we’re establishing will help us improve testing methodologies & establish test template, collaborating with products and engineering teams to complement models like feature delivery combined with Shift left and help drive the future growth of NewDay.
About NewDay
We help people move forward with credit, and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.
Our dynamic NewDay culture
We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
0-12 months you'll deliver
- Work alongside multi-functional teams to understand objectives and capture Non-functional requirements
- Knowledge and experience on non-functional testing categories such as Stress, load, endurance, volume, resiliency, disaster recovery and scalability testing
- Experience in crafting re-usable test-scripts, non-functional test scenarios from Non-Functional requirements and by analysing application usage patterns
- Play a keyrole in infrastructure provisioning, system configuration and deployments
- Interpretation of System Resource Monitoring outputs to determine performance bottlenecks
- Ensure test defects are supervised to closure
- Provide actionable information and suggestions for scalability and resiliency of the NewDay platform to stakeholders
- Develop Dashboard and reports to provide ongoing transparency into the performance of products.
- Ensure supporting documents and knowledge base is crafted from test results for further reference
What you'll bring
We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:
- Strong Experience of Non-functional scripting and testing experience of software
- Experience working in Agile scrum teams
- Hands-on experience with a variety of Performance test tools including but not limited to Jmeter, K6, BlazeMeter, Application Insights, Dynatrace, Grafana dashboards and deployment technologies such as Git hub Actions, TeamCity
- Proficiency with 2 or more of following programming languages/frameworks: C#, Java, .Net
- Good understanding of cloud platform services (AWS, Azure) such as app services, azure functions, cosmos DB, Traffic Managers, Load Balancers and DevOps concepts (containerization, pipelines), SQL tuning, PowerShell, Micro-service architecture
Personal Attributes:
- Have a passion and strong focus for delivering Quality products in automated fashion
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to follow through completion
- Love collaborating to deliver outcomes, putting the customer/user first
- Be willing to grow, learn and lead by example
- Ability to handle ambiguity
- Brings external perspectives to the team
Where next?
In the NewDay Tech team, you’ll join an Expert or Leader career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.
Let’s talk about this role – contact talent@newday.co.uk
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