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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What We Do
Market Intelligence is what sets us apart and what defines us as a brand – literally in fact: when the company was founded in 1972 it took its name from an amalgamation of the two words. We have been defining and refining the Market Intelligence Mix ever since, to offer our clients a unique perspective on the consumer landscape ahead and a clear roadmap with which to navigate it.
So what goes into the market intelligence mix?
MARKET RESEARCH is not the only thing we do, but it is right at the core of our business. The vast range of primary research we carry out and commission is the bedrock of our market intelligence, creating data series we can assess incrementally over the long term to track trends and forecast the future.
MARKET ANALYSIS is the second key element of the market intelligence mix. Our specialist team of market analysts scours the globe for trade, industry and government data, which our statisticians then integrate into meaningful sizing models and future value forecasts for thousands of sectors worldwide.
PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE adds micro-level relevance to the macro context of our market analysis, bringing our clients real-world examples of the launches and goods that are driving the numbers.
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE is the fourth pillar of our work, keeping our clients abreast of their rivals’ strategies, communications and results, to give them the understanding they need to choose the right response to gain or maintain that crucial competitive edge.
The magic happens when we pull them all together. Trend analysts, category specialists, systems developers, dedicated account teams and client servicing staff work together to provide our clients with understanding as well as knowledge.
That’s our Market Intelligence. That’s how we help businesses grow. It’s why we’re the leaders in it.
