We are seeking a Test Engineer to join our dynamic Digital team.
Our vision at Arnold Clark Digital is to give our customers an outstanding, integrated and personalised digital experience, ensuring Arnold Clark is easy to do business with and remains one of the leaders in the car retail and mobility industry.
Why choose us?
- 33 days’ holiday allowance with room to grow
- Flexible leave
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Training opportunities
- Generous employee discounts
- ... and much more
Location
This is a hybrid role, with time spread between remote and our Head Offices in Hillington, Glasgow.
Hours
Full time: Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours per week.
About the role
As a Test Engineer at Arnold Clark, you will be key to delivering our vision of creating market-leading digital products that will put us at the forefront of retailing. Placing our customers at the heart of everything we do, you will transform their experience and drive our business forward.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in some impactful and high-profile projects, working alongside a team of talented and passionate people who are focused on doing things ‘the right way’. We appreciate individuals who are excited by the prospect of working every day on challenging problems, while collaborating and exchanging knowledge with their teammates.
What you can expect
We work in product-based squads using the latest technologies, patterns, and approaches. When you get here, you can expect to be integral to the success of your team.
You will perform varied tasks, sometimes complex and non-routine, using standard methods and procedures. Working under general direction and exercising discretion, you will manage your own work within deadlines. You will proactively enhance your skills and impact in the workplace, actively promoting the benefits of test within your product squad.
Skills and day-to-day activities
- Functional testing: Design detailed functional test cases and scripts, covering various scenarios and boundary values. Actively participate in requirement and design reviews, refining test plans based on insights gained. Undertake structured exploratory testing to investigate and verify functionality. Prepare test data, configures environments and automate repeatable tests. Execute tests, log defects with detailed information and analyses results to assess system functionality.
- Non-functional testing: Assessing systems and services to evaluate performance, security, scalability and other non-functional qualities against requirements or expected standards.
- Process testing: Assess documented and undocumented process flows within a product, system or service against business needs through investigation and testing.
- User acceptance testing: Follow agreed standards and techniques to devise test cases and scenarios based on pre-defined acceptance criteria. Analyse and report on test activities, results, issues and risks.
- Specialist advice: Provide detailed advice to support the planning and operations, related to test. Actively maintain knowledge in test methodologies and technologies. Collaborate with other specialists to ensure advice given is professionally sound and appropriate.
Knowledge and experience
Working in Arnold Clark Digital is an exciting and fast-paced environment where we create amazing products. We are looking for people who are ambitious, dynamic and driven to succeed. The following knowledge and experience will really help you hit the ground running with us:
- Excellent interpersonal, organisational and influencing skills
- Excellent manual testing skills – web, mobile and mobile apps testing including multi-device and cross-platform consistency
- Demonstrable UI and API test automation skills with Playwright and Cypress
- Proven experience of test planning including approach, design, and estimation
- Strong analytical skills to review and validate requirements and technical specifications while developing and executing test plans
- Experience and an understanding of Agile methodologies and practices
Nice to have but not essential
- Experience and understanding of DevOps practices, such as continuous integration for test automation
- Support, design, develop and enhance test processes and reporting for QA processes
- Experience or show an interest in creating or contributing to technical articles published on internal sites and/or for technical publications
At Arnold Clark, we are adopting SFIA Version 9 framework for all roles that require digital / IT skills. In the case of this role, we have reviewed the required skills and skill levels that we regard as essential. To find out more about SFIA and version 9 of the framework, you can visit: https://sfia-online.org/en
You may be asked to provide evidence as to how you are already operating at these skill levels if you are invited to interview with us.
Arnold Clark is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, unique perspectives and multiple approaches are celebrated. We care about our employees and our communities, we nurture talent and encourage ambition, and we are passionate about people who take pride in their work. Our employees are at the heart of everything we do – diverse in our make-up, united in our goals. To find out more about Life at Arnold Clark, visit our website.
Employment within the Arnold Clark Group is offered subject to satisfactory reference and disclosure checks.