Automate testing and quality assurance for cloud-native data platforms, including data lakehouses, pipelines, APIs, and front-end applications. Responsibilities include creating test plans, executing manual and automated tests, managing test data, defining acceptance criteria, reporting quality metrics, supporting UAT and SIT, and improving QA frameworks, onboarding, training, and SDLC processes within an agile cross-functional team.
About us
Xiatech is the pioneer of Xfuze, the world’s first AI-powered composable Integration, Data Management, Analytics and Orchestration Platform that innovatively connects systems, creates a single view of data and delivers actionable insights in one cloud-native, SaaS solution. Business, technology and data teams use Xfuze to shorten time-to-insights, accelerate digital transformation, and extend the value of their legacy technology investments.
We’re a culture-first organisation and put our people at the forefront of everything we do. We believe that a great working environment leads to a happy and productive team which is why we offer our staff the flexibility to work remotely or from our beautiful office in Fitzrovia, Central London.
The Role
This role is an opportunity to join a fast-growing UK-based organisation that believes in using the latest cutting-edge technology. You will have the chance to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry who harness the power of data to provide ground-breaking impact for our clients.
As a Software Engineer in Test at Xiatech, you will be involved in helping us automate all aspects of testing and quality assurance for our Xfuze Hyper-Integration and Advanced Analytics Data Platforms as part of a cross-functional squad, including our data lakehouses, pipelines, APIs, and supporting front end.
You’ll work closely with other Software Engineers in Test, Software Engineers and business stakeholders to deliver real-time, event-driven data solutions and the supporting test frameworks/tooling.
You will be working with the very latest technologies in an exciting and fast-paced environment. Our data platform Xfuze is one of the best in the industry, leveraging best-of-breed technologies and handling business-critical operations for our customers.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual looking for a role in a company that can offer career progression, personal development, and on-the-job training. This exciting role will have a genuine impact from day one and will enable the right person to progress their career in a rapidly expanding organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Your Knowledge & Experience
Your Personality
If you receive an offer of employment, this will be conditional upon satisfactory completion of a right to work & identity check, a reference check and a basic criminal record check for any unspent convictions.
Xiatech is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.
Xiatech is the pioneer of Xfuze, the world’s first AI-powered composable Integration, Data Management, Analytics and Orchestration Platform that innovatively connects systems, creates a single view of data and delivers actionable insights in one cloud-native, SaaS solution. Business, technology and data teams use Xfuze to shorten time-to-insights, accelerate digital transformation, and extend the value of their legacy technology investments.
We’re a culture-first organisation and put our people at the forefront of everything we do. We believe that a great working environment leads to a happy and productive team which is why we offer our staff the flexibility to work remotely or from our beautiful office in Fitzrovia, Central London.
The Role
This role is an opportunity to join a fast-growing UK-based organisation that believes in using the latest cutting-edge technology. You will have the chance to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry who harness the power of data to provide ground-breaking impact for our clients.
As a Software Engineer in Test at Xiatech, you will be involved in helping us automate all aspects of testing and quality assurance for our Xfuze Hyper-Integration and Advanced Analytics Data Platforms as part of a cross-functional squad, including our data lakehouses, pipelines, APIs, and supporting front end.
You’ll work closely with other Software Engineers in Test, Software Engineers and business stakeholders to deliver real-time, event-driven data solutions and the supporting test frameworks/tooling.
You will be working with the very latest technologies in an exciting and fast-paced environment. Our data platform Xfuze is one of the best in the industry, leveraging best-of-breed technologies and handling business-critical operations for our customers.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual looking for a role in a company that can offer career progression, personal development, and on-the-job training. This exciting role will have a genuine impact from day one and will enable the right person to progress their career in a rapidly expanding organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to implementing best practices, automation frameworks, tooling, and processes to continuously improve the company’s QA maturity.
- Work within a cross-functional squad to incrementally deliver new features using agile methodologies.
- Create and execute test plans using a range of manual and automated testing techniques, including performance testing and testing data through pipelines.
- Work with the Product Owner and engineers to define acceptance criteria and refine functional, as well as non-functional requirements.
- Identify, define, and capture testing requirements for the stories and epics within your team’s backlog.
- Set up, seed, and manage test data.
- Clearly and regularly report progress and quality metrics, along with any delays or quality issues.
- Champion quality within the organisation and promote it as being a responsibility of the whole team, not just QA Engineers.
- During UAT you may have daily contact with our external clients so you will need to be able to understand their requirements and business processes to help them with their testing.
- Be willing to understand the Client’s 3rd party systems and where appropriate work alongside their testers for SIT.
- Enable the company to scale by improving our onboarding, training, and SDLC processes.
Your Knowledge & Experience
- 2+ years experience in QA.
- Broad knowledge of different testing techniques, such as API, front-end, regression, performance, and e2e testing.
- Comfortable writing test plans and maintaining test suites.
- Proficiency in Go, JS, Python, or similar for writing automated tests
- Previous experience with Playwright.
- Experience testing data-centric solutions and working with multiple types of data stores to query and create test data, such as document (MongoDB), data warehouses (BigQuery), cache (Redis), relational databases, and object stores such as s3.
- Cloud platforms, especially GCP services such as GCS, Cloud Functions, and Dataproc.
- Familiarity with containerization and IaC tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
- Worked within an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc).
- Previous experience in the retail domain is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Your Personality
- Innovative
- Driven
- Resilient
- Insightful
- Empathetic
- Analytical
- Self-Starter
- Creative
- Problem solver
If you receive an offer of employment, this will be conditional upon satisfactory completion of a right to work & identity check, a reference check and a basic criminal record check for any unspent convictions.
Xiatech is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.
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