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Hybrid - Minimum 2 days on-site in London, Tower Bridge HQ
At Houseful, we’re here to help everyone make intelligent decisions about their home.
Do the best work of your life!
Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa and Prime Location. Together, we're creating the connections that power better property decisions by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight.
We make moves with head and heart to achieve our big ambitions and to drive progress in the property market. There’s never been a better time to join us.
Hometrack
Hometrack is redefining the mortgage journey for lenders, brokers, and consumers by delivering market-leading valuation and property data services to the financial, property, and technology industries. Our key commercial and go-to-market segment is in financial services, primarily mortgage lenders, including nine of the top 10 mortgage providers.
The role
We’re looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join the Property Risk Team to help us build a quality mindset while working with your team to create robust, thoroughly tested, enterprise-grade products for our customers.
You’ll work in a cross-functional, agile engineering team alongside a quality engineer, data analyst, product manager, designer, and delivery manager, all within a single team. With this experience and support, your team can work without supervision to define and deliver on exciting goals.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Testing software at scale as part of a team. You will help set test strategies and ship high-quality software.
- Mentoring others and sharing your knowledge of contemporary quality principles, from theory through to practical solutions.
- Creating automated tests and planning and executing manual tests. You know which testing method is the right approach when required.
- Getting stuck in with testing at all stages of your product's lifecycle, from investigating and discussing initial ideas to driving focus on a pragmatic, shift-left mentality.
- You can define what certain functionalities should look like and what scalable, automated regression-checking solutions to use.
You would be a great fit as Senior Quality Engineer if you have the following:
- Experience with our tech stack: C# / .Net, Azure, SQL (relational database queries), API testing and automation.
- Working with Agile development methodologies like Kanban/Scrum and Azure DevOps/Jira tools.
- Knowledge of the STLC, building and maintaining automation test frameworks from scratch, and automated testing methodologies, strategies, techniques, and tools.
- Contributing to user stories, acceptance criteria and participating in team sessions.
- Experience with a shift-left approach to quality.
- Understand SOLID principles and design patterns to produce clean, readable and highly maintainable code.
- Mentoring QA’s on automation frameworks, tools and performing code reviews.
- Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
- 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
- Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
- Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
- Cycle to work and electric car schemes
- Free Calm App membership
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Fertility Treatment Financial Support
- Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
- Gym on-site in London
- 7.5% pension contribution by the company
- Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
- Talent referral bonus up to £5K
Top Skills
Houseful London, England Office
The Cooperage, 5 Copper Row, London, United Kingdom, SE1 2LH
