Principal Quality Engineer at Kingfisher

  • Anywhere (100% Remote) Only
  • Kingfisher
Job Description:

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal Quality Engineer to join the Group Technology Quality Engineering team.

  • You're collaborative and pragmatic, representing Quality with good communication skills across Delivery/Engineering–able to work with Senior Leads across Quality and Engineering.
  • You enjoy coaching and mentoring other Engineers (Quality and Development), advocating best practices.
  • You have hands-on experience of test automation.
  • Defining and maintaining the automation tests for services, integrations, components/applications.
  • Understand how to apply automation best practice across Unit testing, contract/integration testing vs full end to end automated tests.
  • You have experience of testing APIs.
  • Platform experience to direct automation across environment stack (existing and new).

Responsibilities

  • Define automation strategy and guard rails for engineering teams to operate within, promoting collaboration and driving adherence to quality standards and governance. Drive new insights and initiatives to improve existing ways of working.
  • Confidently work with Senior Quality Engineers, Principal Engineers/Senior Engineers to support continuous improvement through Retrospective and feedback sessions. Be comfortable holding engineering colleagues to account with regards to quality, and test activities.
  • Drive innovation and streamlining of overall testing processes.
  • Build strong rapport with Business stakeholders to gain context perspective and ensure alignment on priority/criticality of test coverage.
  • Work with other PQEs, Simulation Team and Engineers to build automation and quality into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Contribute to Tooling and Technology strategies, in line with Cloud and DevOps initiatives.
  • Leverage data/metric reporting to highlight trends and systemic issues.
  • Strive to embed consistency across the QE organisation and encourage alignment to core values and principals.

About You

  • You have experience of Agile methodology including practices such as Scrum or Kanban.
  • You have working knowledge of Jenkins, Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence.
  • You have a good solid understanding of CI/CD practices and SQL and ideally are familiar with AWS or Docker.
  • You ideally have experience with microservices and simulation/mock libraries aswell as different Cloud environments, such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
  • You may have experience of (some/all) Big Data, Data Engineering, Data Quality, Data Reconciliation, ETL, Data Modelling and Data Pipelines, Security testing and ability to understand security concepts.
  • You could have Python experience. An understanding of Spark, and experience testing would be a bonus.

If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at kingfisher.recruitment@kingfisher.com

We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles.

Our Benefits;

  • Flexible/hybrid working.
  • Comprehensive healthcare plans.
  • PTO and family leave.
  • Retirement plans. In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

Company Benefits

  • Competitive Salary Ranges
  • Strong Bonus Opportunity
  • Private Healthcare
  • Excellent Pension Contributions
  • 25 days holiday
  • Share Options
  • Life Assurance
  • 20% Discount Card for Kingfisher Group companies
  • Travel Allowance for certain levels

Interview Process

Initial Screening Call with Internal Recruiter

If candidate is successful at shortlisting:

1st stage interview with Principal Engineer followed by 2nd stage interview with hiring manager

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