Principal QA Engineer

We are seeking a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer to become a valuable member of our team to support the accuracy, completeness and reliability of our systems. The data structures we create are consumed by application teams (using Python and AWS), data scientists (using Jupyter notebooks and AWS Sagemaker), data analysts (using Looker) and operations teams throughout the business.

The teams in question build and support our innovation and product tracking subscription products. These tools are trusted by over 64,000 marketers, researchers and scientists worldwide and are used to help plan innovations to keep our clients at the forefront of their Consumer Packaged Goods markets. 

Our teams work on a stack consisting primarily of Python, React, and .NET, though we also work with Snowflake and the AWS stack. We are looking for candidates with experience in automation testing and familiarity with our tool stack is a bonus.

We support a Hybrid working approach. The base office for this role will be in Belfast.

What You Will Do:

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, architecture, info-sec and product management to ensure comprehensive test coverage and timely delivery of high-quality products. Facilitate communication between teams to promote a shared understanding of quality objectives and standards.
• Contribute to Testing of New Features: Collaborate with Engineers on your team to carry out testing and other QA activities.  During each sprint provide your perspective on how we can learn and improve our quality approaches.  
• Test Automation and Environment Management: Develop and implement test automation. Coordinating and managing test environments to support test execution. 
• Develop QA Strategy:  Work with QA team members in other teams to improve our company quality standards and best practices. Help evolve the QA function and support the appropriate definition of responsibilities with each team.

Department Wide Quality Improvement: You will play a pivotal role in shaping the quality landscape of our products, advocating for QA improvements and building a quality first culture. Metrics and Reporting: Maintaining measurements to help teams understand the maturity of their quality practices, aiding them in prioritizing areas to focus on

What We Are Looking For:

• Over 8 years in quality assurance with at least 2 years in a leadership role
• Deep knowledge of a number of different testing tools and frameworks
• Individuals who can quickly pick up domain knowledge and effectively up-skill on relevant topics where required 
• Experience in raising awareness of quality principles and best practices
• Effective communication skills for collaboration with the team and stakeholders
• A passion for delivering high quality products. 
• A high level of empathy for end users
• A willingness to learn and a focus on personal growth

Why join Mintel? We are the world's leading market intelligence agency and technology underpins our success. We help our clients understand consumers and consumer markets, and we aspire to provide the market intelligence behind every great business decision. Our technology allows us to deliver data, insights, and opinions in a compelling way to our clients across the globe.

Mintel is committed to building and supporting a diverse workforce, providing opportunities for all. 26% of our Engineering team and 27% of our Engineering leaders are women. We are proud to be a signatory of Tech Talent Charter, highlighting our goal of improving diversity within our team and supporting industry-wide improvement. We offer flexible working options and provide support, development and growth opportunities.

We hope you’ll like our…

• Culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working
• Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned
• Frequent social events, both within the department and across the company

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