QA Engineer

Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments and the everyday companion for people at work, connecting over 50 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 46 countries via roughly 900,000 corporate clients. Edenred offers specific-purpose payment solutions for food (such as meal benefits), incentives(such as gift cards, employee engagement platforms), mobility (such as multi-energy, maintenance, toll, parking and commuter solutions) and corporate payments (such as virtual cards). True to the Group’s purpose, “Enrich connections. For good.”, these solutions enhance users’ well-being and purchasing power. They improve companies’ attractiveness and efficiency, and vitalize the employment market and the local economy. They also foster access to healthier food, more environmentally friendly products and softer mobility. Edenred’s 10,000 employees are committed to making the world of work a connected ecosystem that is safer, more efficient and more responsible every day. In 2021, thanks to its global technology assets, the Group managed close to €30 billion in business volume, primarily carried out via mobile applications, online platforms and cards. Edenred is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and included in the following indices: CACNext 20, CAC Large 60, Euronext 100, FTSE4Good and MSCI Europe. We are now recruiting for a QA Engineer to join our growing engineering teams here at PPS. Working as part of a larger team, and reporting to our QA Manager, you will be responsible for assurance of the quality of new features developed for our product groups and making sure our software meets or exceeds published metrics and quality benchmarks. In the role, you will develop new automated tests that ensure the quality of new feature development, drive improvements within QA, and ensure knowledge is spread across squads and teams. You will need experience with Java, and automation frameworks – Junit or Selenium/Cucumber. This is a Hybrid position located from our Swindon office and will require you to be on-site once every 2 weeks. Please note, we cannot sadly offer sponsorship for any of our opportunities. Role and Responsibilities

• Development of new automated tests that ensure the quality of new feature development covering functional and non-functional tests
• Drive improvements to Quality Assurance
• Adherence to standards and best practices
• Ensure knowledge is spread across squads and teams
• Work as “one team” to ensure deliveries are on time and to a high quality – becoming “T-shaped”
• Analyse failing tests – triage, then deep dive to surface root cause
• Help identify areas of improvement i.e. Test run times or code effectiveness

Skills & Experience Technical:

Commercial experience of testing systems that incorporate microservice architectures and web applications

• Required experience in the following:
  • Java
  • Automation framework – Junit or Cucumber
  • BDD and TDD tools and techniques
  • Data creation and curation
  • API and web services (REST)
  • XML/JSON
  • SQL
  • Working with source code repositories
    
• Experience of the following would be beneficial:
  • DevOps practices and principles
  • AWS/Azure cloud services
  • Working with large databases
  • Linux/ Unix
  • Jenkins
  • Jira & Confluence
  • Docker
  • Tools: Git, Maven, Apache Tomcat
    
• ISTQB Foundation Certification (minimum)

Behavioural

• Analytical approach to defect resolution and remediation
• Well organized – able to plan own work and track progress against a plan
• Strong communicator- written & verbal- able to explain technical issues and solutions to peers
• Self-starter, problem solver

Employee Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (or equivalent for shift roles)
• Company sick pay & Income protection
• Life insurance (4x salary)
• 2 x Wellbeing Employee Assistance Programs for staff and family members with MetLife and AIG.
• PPS Plus employee saving platform
• EDU digital learning platform
• Complimentary fruit and other ‘in office’ snacks & refreshments
• Volunteering programme
• Social events
• Defined Contribution Personal Pension Scheme with Aviva – employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%.
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance
• Holiday trading scheme (buy or sell up to 5 days)
• Medical & international travel cover with AXA PPP
• Subsidised gym membership or £20 monthly gym allowance
• Employee referral bonus scheme
• Interest free travel loan for bus and rail
• Cycle to Work scheme

Diversity Edenred UK and PPS are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, colour, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws. Apply now and Vibe with Us!