Job Title: Platform Test Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent, Fulltime

Working Pattern: Remote

What We Offer:

• Holidays: 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service)
• Pension: We know it is important to save for the future, that is why we will contribute up to 10%
• Maternity/Paternity: We realise that family time is important, we offer enhanced maternity (after successful completion of probation) and 4 weeks paternity leave
• Volunteering: 2 paid days to ‘give back’ to the charity of your choice
• Development: LinkedIn Learning for all
• Finance: Snoop Premium available to all colleagues
• Medical: Opportunity to opt in for Private Medical Insurance
• Bonus: Discretionary annual bonus

The Role:

You and Your Team:

As a Platform Test Engineer, your purpose is to ensure APIs and other components that make up the platform are being built and maintained, in a complex software and IT environment, to a consistent level of quality in terms of functionality, performance, and security.

Using expertise in various technologies and best practices, this is a pivotal role in verifying the correct operation of our product offerings, optimising performance, and ensuring the reliability and security of our software systems.

Some of the key responsibilities are:

• Building and maintaining automated suites to detect regressions in platform behavior or performance.
• Conduct rigorous manual testing and troubleshooting of platform to ensure it meets functional, performance and security requirements.
• Assist platform engineers in triaging incidents/defects and diagnosing the causes of defects (and performance bottlenecks and security issues).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop technical test plans in response to new business requirements and architecture designs.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable test code, conduct code reviews, and enforce coding best practices.
• Review production code to pro-actively identify possible defects, performance bottlenecks or security issues.
• Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD platforms.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation to allow colleagues to run, edit and maintain test plans.
• Stay updated on trends, tools, and technologies in automated testing to propose improvements and innovative solutions.

What We’re Looking For:

Essential skills and experience:

• Software testing, in particular of APIs and other backend components.
• Software test automation.
• Security and compliance.
• Risk management and mitigation.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies.
• Experience with constructing tests involving complex set-up of multiple systems.
• Experience of developing bespoke tools/scripts/apps to aid testing or test set-up.
• Good knowledge of SQL and no-SQL database technologies.
• Experience of source control systems (Git preferred)
• Experience of AWS services, and in particular ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS

Offers are subject to satisfactory background checks, including credit, fraud, and employment references.

Who We Are:

At Vanquis, we have a simple purpose: to deliver caring banking so our customers can make the most of life’s opportunities. Established in 1880, we’re now a FTSE All Share company and leading specialist bank. We lend responsibly, providing tailored products and services to over 1.75 million UK customers.

We take care of our colleagues as well as our customers, working hard to create a rewarding and supportive work environment. That means competitive salaries, benefits, and a Group-wide recognition scheme. Everyone can enrol in our pension and after six months, you can join our ‘Buy as You Earn’ scheme.

We’re about more than financial rewards though. We give everyone a voice in the business and room to be their authentic self. And we know you’re here to build your career, so we help every colleague with training and development opportunities. Making sure there’s always something new to learn.

Driven by an ambition to make everyone better off, Snoop is an award-winning Open Banking platform that aggregates customers’ payment accounts in one place and provides them with highly personalised, timely and actionable insights. Snoop, a unique capability, empowers our customers to manage their finances effectively and targets savings of up to £1,500 per year for customers.

Why work for us?

Leveraging Snoop’s innovative technology and data capabilities will unlock valuable opportunities for the Group and we’re always looking for passionate and talented people to come and help us change the game. We pride ourselves on a flexible approach to working – because what matters to us is who you are and what you do, not where and how you do it. If you’re someone who wants to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Vanquis Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, it's our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available to help. You can contact us at [email protected]