QA Engineer

About Benchmark

Our award-winning, proprietary solutions cover regulatory, platform and investment services, and are designed to support advisers at every step of their journey – from starting and running a financial advice business more productively and effectively, to accelerating its growth and realising its value.

We support high quality financial advisers with our award-winning technology and support services. And with our own Financial Advice business, we help families find solutions to meet their needs and aspirations and achieve peace of mind. By providing access to higher quality solutions, we make it easier for them to meet and exceed their goals.

Ensuring good client outcomes, with the client's interests central to decision making, is very important at Benchmark. Treating Customers Fairly principles are embedded within our organisation and we take responsibility for embracing and promoting our duty of care to all clients, including those who may be more vulnerable than others.

The base

You'll be based at our Broadlands Business Campus near Horsham in West Sussex. Without being in the city, a big, countryside campus means life will feel a little different. We support our offices by using cutting edge software and hardware and our spacious campus facilities mean there's a great working environment for the team. With an on-site restaurant, coffee shop and gym, our campus has much to offer. And commuters can relax on our dedicated regular shuttle bus to and from Horsham's main line train station.

What you'll do

• Analysing and helping to shape requirements and test scenarios in your scrum team
• Test planning, scripting (both manual and automated) and reviews
• Execution of tests to support sprint goals and deployments
• Test script reviews
• Taking ownership of test planning and execution for deployments, across scrum teams
• Act as a subject matter expert for the project area being worked on
• Driving quality within the Scrum team and the wider delivery community

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Ability to translate requirements into test scenarios using BDD / Gherkin syntax
• Experienced in driving quality as part of a Scrum team and wider communities
• Proven experience in writing automation tests for web applications
• Significant automation tests experience with Specflow using C#
• Writing automated tests for web applications, RESTful API services (including contract testing) and Pub/Sub in code
• Experience of introducing Automated testing tools and techniques into a CI/CD Pipeline
• Experience with good development practices (repository management tools (git), versioning, clean code, package management)
• Test execution and reporting (manual and automated)
• Selenium experience
• Using source-control tools such as git
• Stakeholder Management
• Testing across multiple browsers/devices
• Strong written and presentational skills

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• Financial Services
• Working within the SAFe methodology
• ASP.NET
• React
• Familiar with CI / CD pipeline tooling – TeamCity and Octopus
• Understanding and usage of Kubernetes and Docker
• Usage of issue tracking systems such as JIRA
• Usage of Test Management Tools such as Xray
• Foundation ISTQB/ISEB
• Experience using Security or Performance testing tools and techniques such as OAuth Zap, Jmeter, Blazemeter

What you'll be like

• Promoter of the Treating Customers Fairly principles, and deliver your own responsibility for the duty of care to our clients
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills – able to work well with others
• Proactive and willing to take on additional responsibilities when there are clear resource gaps
• Outcome focused
• Highly motivated with an attention to detail
• Ability to manage tasks and workload – doing own work whilst supporting others
• Should be adaptable to shifting priorities and changing circumstances
• Should embrace mentoring, and learning from others

We're looking for the best, whoever they are

Benchmark is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your socio-economic background, race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief, age or disability.