Test Engineer
Location: Remote - must be UK based
Work Pattern: Full Time/Fixed Term Contract
Security Clearance: BPSS
The Company:
At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff.
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Test Engineer to join our team to support a range of critical platform upgrades and migrations. The successful candidate will work closely with development teams to create comprehensive test plans, implement testing strategies, and support third-party penetration testing activities. This role involves ensuring the delivery of secure, robust, and high-performing solutions within a CI/CD environment.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Develop detailed test plans covering functional, regression, and performance testing.
- Execute tests to validate application functionality, scalability, and security.
- Conduct regression testing for new and existing features to ensure system stability.
- Perform performance testing to evaluate system scalability and resilience under load.
- Collaborate with third-party penetration testing teams to prepare systems for assessment.
- Validate and document outcomes of penetration testing to ensure security standards are met.
- Build and execute automated tests integrated into GitHub workflows to support continuous delivery pipelines.
- Align testing strategies with Terraform-based deployments for seamless CI/CD practices.
- Test containerised solutions deployed on AWS ECS and ensure full regression testing of Terraform-managed infrastructure.
- Validate database migration pipelines using GitHub CI/CD workflows.
- Work closely with developers, platform SMEs, and other stakeholders to ensure quality assurance at every stage.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all test processes and results.
Key Deliverables:
Functional and non-functional test results for infrastructure and application changes, including:
- Migration of EC2-based applications to AWS ECS-based solutions.
- Replacement of EC2 nodes with TypeScript Lambdas and AWS Batch.
- Decommissioning of legacy resources (EC2, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform) post-testing.
- Validation of containerised and CI/CD pipeline deployments.
- Supporting PHP refactoring to facilitate containerisation.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Strong experience in testing platforms utilising Docker and AWS ECS/ECR.
- Proficiency in creating and executing regression and performance testing.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD workflows, particularly GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
- Strong understanding of security best practices and testing, including support for penetration testing.
- Demonstrable knowledge of cloud environments and AWS services, such as S3, IAM roles, CloudWatch, and RDS.
Benefits:
- Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA.
- Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes.
- Receive private medical insurance through Aviva.
- Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest.
- 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays.
- Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources.
- Participate in a generous employee referral program.
- A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement.
- Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation.
- Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes:
- Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued.
- Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all.
- Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace.
- By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities.
What Happens Next?
Our Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary.
Top Skills
What We Do
Amber Labs is a partnership of highly-skilled consultants and technologists.
We specialise in the evolution of Data Engineering, Cloud and Analytics.
We focus on delivering value from our client’s data using innovative approaches that reduce risk and delivery time, and that we are constantly improving through R&D.
Amber Labs was founded on three key principles:
An employee first internal culture, through diverse investment and exciting opportunities for our team, and a partnership structure ensuring everyone has an opportunity to share in the success of Amber Labs.
Persistent analysis to identify opportunities to develop artefacts, accelerators and automation that allow rapid deployment of highly-technical solutions to the cloud or on-premise for our clients.
Consistent investment into our ADM (Amber Labs Delivery Methodology -underpinned by Agile Methodology) to ensure we maximise velocity, quality and value
