Quality Engineer

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. First Choice technology team is responsible for the delivery and operation of all E-commerce solutions and products. for several websites including FirstChoice.co.uk, HolidayHypermarket.co.uk and nhs.tui.co.uk. We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Architecture, Engineering, DevOps and Agile Delivery 

At TUI we’re ambitious to become the leader in technology within the travel industry and to achieve this we are looking to build a capable, creative team who want to be a part of accomplishing that goal. 

We never stop looking ahead, seeking new ways and the massive contribution this brings to creating a truly unique and differentiated customer experience. to delight our customers and grow our business. We recognise the power of digital  

We are looking for a talented and dedicated technical enthusiast to join the First Choice technology team which Build, Run and Maintain multiple holiday websites. 

The Quality Engineer is a practitioner and an advocate of quality-focused software delivery practices, ensuring high quality of software products and services with an appropriate toolkit of technologies and methods and with a DevSecOps mindset. Working in an agile environment and keeping up with the ever-evolving technical landscape the Quality Engineer is a lifelong learner and likes to think outside the box. 

• Now taking applications until 10/12

ABOUT OUR OFFER

• Personal benefits: Attractive remuneration, bonus opportunity, exclusive travel perks & discounts, extensive health & wellbeing support, and more.
• Flexible working: Work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We encourage a healthy work-life balance and offer hybrid or remote working models.
• A career to shape: Opportunities to upskill, reskill and grow your career. Access the TUI Tech Learning Hub to level-up and reach your ambitions.
• Expand your horizons: Participate in our tech communities and collaborate on global projects and teams.
• Community: Get involved with incredible local charity and sustainability initiatives like the TUI Care Foundation and the Sustainable Tech Community. 

ABOUT THE JOB

• As a Quality Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team or a practice team that enables quality engineering skills and capabilities across a whole domain. Being an enthusiast in creating flawlessly working software solutions for our customers, with a strong DevSecOps mindset, and thanks to your excellent collaboration skills you will work with your team in delivering the best answers to our customers’ needs and in taking over full responsibility for its applications, from design to operation.

• You care diligently about the quality of your work, including proper documentation and security aspects. 

• You will use your deep technical skills to work with your team on defining, executing and maintaining efficient, highly automated test setups over the whole testing pyramid, from functional testing, integration and contract testing to performance and load testing.

• You are responsible for defining an appropriate testing strategy and ensuring the availability of suitable test data. You will also help to realise efficient solution for assuring quality where automation comes up against its limitations.

• You will coach and support your colleagues with deep knowledge to improve expertise in ensuring the quality of software products over the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying applications.  

• You will help to continuously advance tooling, processes, and ways of working, always having our customers in mind, and thus embed all-team quality ownership.

• You will also work with Product Owners to ensure testable feature specifications. Defect analysis, root cause tracking and priority impact analysis is vital to this role to drive a high quality of code and digital change.

• You will investigate, analyse and prioritise any issues found/reported in production and log defects using the appropriate support tools.  Any defects logged should be followed up with a successful outcome.

• You are able to verbalise your thoughts and ideas and take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes. Together with the domain’s Practice teams as well as the Group Enabler teams you also will research, evaluate and test new approaches, processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively.  

• You love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team and personal level.  You love to learn and acquire new skills and keep up to date with latest developments in your focus areas. 

• Security is part of everyone’s job. At TUI, we practise secure behaviours first in everything we do. 

ABOUT YOU 

• Deep and practical knowledge of and expertise in quality assurance practices, tools and methods in an agile context and at scale. 
• Strong technical prowess in all quality assurance areas including automation, functional, contract, integration, performance and load testing.  
• Critical thinking and analytical skills to analyse functionality and be able to provide accurate prioritisation for issues if any. 
• Good experience within an STLC/SDLC environment. 
• Good experience with CI/CD, preferably GIT/TFS. 
• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services.  
• Demonstrating true engineering craftsmanship mindset.  
• Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams.   
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills.   
• Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner. 
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.

From a workplace to a place to belong.  At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless.

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