Associate Test Engineer
Associate Test Engineer - Salary - £25,500 - £30,000 (dependent on experience) - Hybrid working
Our growing Technology team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services.
Join us and you'll have an opportunity to make an impact. To empower projects that deliver real-world benefits across Britain and internationally. To hear our customers say they could not have done it without us. And to be central to OS's vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.
About the role
Are you a highly creative and motivated Associate Test Engineer who enjoys breaking down technical challenges?
Do you have a passion for building frameworks that monitor and improve the reliability of solutions? Then you may be the perfect fit to join our dynamic Technology team!
We are currently looking to recruit an Associate Test Engineer who is passionate about quality and who is keen to develop their skillset at the cutting edge of Geospatial innovation. You will work as a part of a test team that develops automation to supports the next generation of systems, driving our world-leading geospatial and business applications. Using exciting technologies such as Machine Learning, the agile team is focused on use of automatic feature extraction to deliver solutions / data layers for our customers using cutting edge technology and approaches.
Your development and growth are at the heart of what we do. Once established, you will be working closely in a highly skilled professional team of Engineers and Architects championing quality. Alongside your team, you will play an essential role in shaping both back and front-end CI/CD test automation infrastructures in our Microsoft Azure environment.
At Ordnance Survey we have a strong testing community of test professionals that regularly support each other with monthly sessions on a plethora of test related topics, including the latest tools, and innovative techniques. We'd love for you to be a part of it!
What we're looking for
If you're interested in joining a team that lies at the heart of what OS is about, we're looking for someone that can demonstrate skills and experience in
- Working within an established Test Strategy
- Being part of a team that devises manual and automated test plans and test cases
- Understanding of different Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies
- Understanding and performing testing at different testing levels.
- Using one or more programming languages (E.g. Python, C#, JavaScript, Java)
- Knowledge of automated test frameworks
- Showing initiative, an analytical mind and an eagerness to learn new IT practices
- Working well within a team and/ or communicating well with a range of different stakeholders
- Recording defects using a defect management tool such as Microsoft Azure Dev Ops
Experience In the Following Areas Would Be Advantageous
- Awareness of geospatial systems, data, and technologies
- Experience of data warehouses, data lakes or data lakehouses and Azure Data Factory
- Understanding of Machine Learning
- Ability to interrogate databases through SQL queries
- Testing in a cloud environment (E.g., Microsoft Azure or AWS)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding the difference between testing data quality and functional testing
- Working towards an ISTQB Foundation certification or recognised equivalent
The Rewards
We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done.
- Salary - £25,500 - £30,000 (dependent on experience)
- Performance related bonus up to 10%
- A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%)
- 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining additional to bank holidays (3 taking over Christmas)
- Paid maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Free subscription to OS Maps
- Access to online learning platforms
- Coaching and Mentoring schemes
- Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits
At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like
- An extra days' leave for each year you work, up to 33 days
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Hybrid working
- Free onsite parking at our modern HQ in Southampton
- We adopt flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances
- Eyecare Vouchers
- OS Explorers Nursery discount
- Cycle to Work scheme
Location: We embrace a hybrid working model at OS and understand there is no one size fits all in relation to how we work. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire where you will be required to spend some of your time based on the team's active projects and requirements for face-to-face collaboration with the remaining time being a personal choice as to whether you work from home or spend more time at OSHQ.
Security
OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some of our roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if additional clearance will be required for this role.
Closing date: Sunday 01 September 2024
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.
We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together - in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.
We are looking for enthusiastic people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.
We're individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you