Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid)

Team: Product Development

The Role:

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join one of our product delivery team focused on delivering for internal users, working on in house applications and microservices integrated with third party applications. You will become an expert on how our products are used and understand where the risks are to drive your testing approach.

We are one of the biggest home-grown brands in the UK. At Rightmove we are developing products to make the experience of finding a home better, quicker and happier for our users.

As a team we believe:

Being a QA engineer is more than just testing, we are champions of quality and we are passionate about embedding it throughout the lifecycle to prevent defects rather than find them, and to build systems we are proud of rather than break them.

We believe in testing continuously rather than at the end and that quality is the responsibility of the whole team. We are subject matter experts guiding our teams to think critically about all aspects of delivery not just functional but for example in areas like security, performance, accessibility and usability.

As a quality assurance engineer, you are responsible for:

• Actively participating in the refinement sessions by covering appropriate details like acceptance tests, Implementation details, Risks, Release & monitoring details etc in the tickets
• Helping the team understand and estimate any test efforts, test dependencies during Planning and refinement sessions
• Reviewing requirements to understand gaps, the potential user impact, risk and dependencies on other internal/external services in Rightmove
• Reviewing the designs and helping the team deliver features that are accessible and inclusive to everyone
• Pairing with engineers during development and code review to ensure appropriate test coverage at different levels and to avoid any duplication of efforts
• Ensuring our automation test framework and coverage is targeted, relevant, efficient and resilient
• Working with the team to determine the root cause of issues, for example: using logs, elastic search and database
• Actively participating in the QA ceremonies within the team such as Bug backlog and triage process
• Actively contributing to our QA community, by sharing your experience and learning from others

We would love someone to have any of the following:

• Quality Assurance in software, testing large scale applications
• Experience working with Elastic Search, Kafka, Oracle DB and similar data stores would be big plus
• Experience working in an agile environment with continuous release mechanisms
• Experience working within a complex microservice architecture
• Exposure to running and debugging automated test suites
• Experienced in using API testing tools such as Postman, REST Assured
• Ability to influence within your domain of expertise
• Ability to adapt to change and a hunger to learn and experiment with new technologies and process

About us

We are on a mission to ‘help people make the right move’, we launched in 2000 with a will to make home-hunting happy, by showing all property in just one place.

A great success story, we’re now the biggest home-grown web brand in the UK our traffic levels surpassed only by Facebook, Google, YouTube, eBay and Amazon.

Despite this success, we remain a down-to-earth bunch. To join us in our mission, we look to recruit people who share the same values and beliefs as we’ve always had, because Rightmove is people. We call it the secret to our success and why staying 10 years or longer, reaching ‘gnome status’, is simply the Rightmove way.

We encourage and support all Rightmovers to continuously develop themselves. Together we work towards the best outcome, both in terms of our technical solutions and continued business growth. We are always on the lookout for the great new people to join our team. If you are a smart and passionate initiative-taker then get in touch. You could be part of the next chapter of the Rightmove story! Will you be ‘Gnomed?’

We believe that ensuring diversity of background and experience will lead to a more fun and inclusive workplace and the creation of better products for our users. We are an equal opportunities employer, come and help us make home moving easier.

Did you know?

• Rightmove was meant to be called 'Doorknob.' But it didn't quite have the same ring to it
• There have been eight weddings between Rightmove colleagues over the past 16 years
• We still have employee #1 working at Rightmove
• We currently have 52 gnomes on our gnome tree