Location
London, LONDON, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Posted on
Aug 03, 2021
Profile
Description
Lead Test Engineer (London or Glasgow)
Overview of job
The Commercial Technology team develop and maintain the products that drive the commercial revenues at Global for both the Radio and Outdoor parts of the business. We are focused on 3 key areas of the business:
Sales Operations (opportunity management and campaign details);
Trading and Fulfilment (campaign planning, booking and delivery); and
Programmatic (audio and outdoor digital ad platform).
We are facing many exciting and interesting scaling questions, technical challenges and looking at new ways to grow the business. This role will be crucial to that success.
We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment.
3 best things about the job
Work across all our revenue generating systems including campaign planning, optimisation and fulfilment for radio and outdoor; and our streaming and dynamic ad insertion platform that provides a great listening experience for millions of people every day.
Work in a highly collaborative, agile environment to develop innovative solutions.
Work closely with engineers and the product team to deliver high quality work that impacts the business.
Measures of success –
In the first few months, you would have
Gained a deep understanding of the business context and how it affects all of the deliverables of the teams you work with.
Understood the systems and integrations for the teams you work with.
Helped to ensure high quality delivery of functionality with the teams you work with including writing automated tests, manual testing and API testing.
Understood our current testing practices and tooling and worked collaboratively with the Head of Testing to build a roadmap of improvements.
Responsibilities of the role
Hands on testing of delivery roadmap to ensure high quality output.
Working with the product and engineering teams to make sure requirements are well documented and unambiguous and ensuring acceptance criteria are understood.
Working with the product and engineering teams to triage and prioritise defects that are raised.
Maintaining the standards and processes for how we test within the teams you will support to ensure we have the correct balance of testing and appropriate automation so that we can deliver high quality rapidly.
Being a subject matter expert in different ways of testing and being able to advise the teams and other testers.
Fostering a culture of collaboration, learning and mentoring and ensuring a friendly work environment.
What you will need
The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:
Demonstrable experience at testing including manual and automated testing; API, integration and end to end testing; performance and security testing.
An operational mindset, demonstrable experience in relevant tooling and in debugging complex issues across a system.
Experience with SQL and a language – Typescript, Javascript, Java or C#
Strong problem solving skills and a pragmatic approach.
Experience working in a fast moving, agile environment.
Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior members of a team.
Demonstrably great communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to influence and drive discussion and collaboration.
Everyone is welcome at Global
Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.
Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global
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