Senior Software Quality Engineer - Services

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Senior Software Quality Engineer - Services
About this role
Capital One is looking for a Software Quality Engineer (SQE) to join one of our services engineering teams in Acquisitions, based in our Nottingham office.
What you'll do:

• Lead system level quality engineering and delivery in a cross-functional services engineering team to deliver high quality solutions that improve outcomes for our customers.
• Lead across teams, to integrate components ensuring system level testing is considered holistically.
• Lead test strategy definition and implementation, identifying testing functional and non-functional requirements, which may include scoping automation or manual testing of complex systems.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers with respect to best practices in delivering quality outcomes.
• Identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement including focus on stability of environments, CI/CD tooling and more.
• Elevate quality within the Capital One Services, working across multiple engineering teams.
• Provide qualitative feedback to stakeholders, so that informed decisions can be made.

What we're looking for:

• An experienced adaptable leader with a passion for quality and a strong quality mindset. You will have a broad background in technology, strong technical awareness and problem solving skills, with the ability to be hands-on where appropriate.
• Strong experience and confidence with modern testing techniques. Understanding what, how and when they should be applied and why.
• A strategic thinker, who understands the importance of balancing the business needs alongside the technical risk. Ensuring risks are understood and mitigated appropriately.
• The primary language of our service quality engineers is Java - the ideal candidate will already be confident with the language in the context of writing automated tests. However experience and knowledge of any Object Oriented language will be appropriate.
• A strong CI/CD and test excellence culture. Progressing developed software through appropriate test stages and to final release. And, API functional and performance testing through supporting testing tools.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to read the room and adapt style to situation and audience
• Collaborative team player who can take people both inside and outside the team on a journey, to solve significant problems.
• A desire to have a proactive positive impact on the engineering community and system to grow a quality culture.
• A demonstrated ability and track record for leading and delivering quality software when faced with challenging circumstances, balancing immediate delivery needs with a long-term focus on test maturity and architectural integrity.

What you'll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageous):

• The cloud (AWS including Lambda, Fargate, EventBridge, SQS, SNS) and how we we use it in a highly regulated environment
• Knowledge of Event-driven Architecture
• Frameworks including Spring Boot, JUnit, Mockito, Wiremock, Cucumber, Docker, RestAssured, LocalStack, Pactflow, and Gatling
• Becoming a subject matter expert for our services based applications
• Working with third party vendor systems.

Where and how you'll work
This is a permanent position and is based in our Nottingham office.
We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home.
We're big on collaboration and connection, so you'll be based in our office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.
What's in it for you

• Bring us all this - and you'll be handsomely rewarded with a role contributing to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation
• We're continuing our journey into the public cloud and have problems of scale, security, availability and performance for you to help solve
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance - with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant and dedicated development resources.

What you should know about how we recruit
We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it's about what you do, not just what you say. That's why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.
We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH - Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• OutFront - to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind - signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech - promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry
• Enabled - focused on supporting associates with disabilities and neurodiversity.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.
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Who We Are
At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.
Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.