Test Engineer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Manchester Store Support Centre and Home, Manchester, M4 3AL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 28 February 2025
Requisition ID: 292130
Sainsbury's Tech - Test Engineer
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
Why join us
Joining our team at Sainsbury's means being a part of an exceptionally dynamic and multi-faceted organisation that serves millions of customers daily. With the UK's largest loyalty scheme and cutting-edge digital platforms, we handle an astonishing 1.2 billion transactions each year, offering a vast and intricate dataset that few can match. As an Engineer (Test), you'll be part of a collaborative and inclusive environment where we encourage curiosity, experimentation, and real-world problem-solving. With endless opportunities for growth and learning, you will be a valued member of our engineering community, continuously striving for improvement and contributing to the innovative techniques and technologies we employ. Join us and be part of a team that encourages innovation, values your expertise, and prioritises work-life balance while delivering exceptional results.
As a Test Engineer at Sainsbury’s you would get the opportunity to define and deliver on a test strategy that progresses Sainsbury’s automation testing capabilities, be responsible for end-to-end integration and regression testing of systems across Sainsbury’s. This includes front end customer facing channels, order management, warehousing and store support systems - all to ensure great new features and services get delivered to our customers and colleagues flawlessly. The successful candidate would need to be able to demonstrate confidence in delivering multiple functional tests (API, e2e, regression). Great communication and time management skills are essential. Your duties would include manual testing, designing automation scripts, finding solutions for expanding our testing capabilities, and working closely with the wider development team to deliver shared projects.
Who you are
You are a skilled testing professional with experience in manual and automation, candidates must bring energy, self-motivation and have a pro-active approach.
Essential Experience:
Solid engineering and coding experience in Java
Expertise with one of the following testing frameworks such as Selenium
Manual and Automation expertise
Knowledge of Gituhub or Jenkins
Experience with Jira & Confluence for ticket / documentation
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineers, product and leadership.
Able to write concisely and maintain technical documentation.
Knowledge of Agile software development practices, especially SCRUM
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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