Staff Quality Engineer (Waitrose Apps)
On site
Bracknell, United Kingdom
Part Time
25-03-2025
Job Specifications
About The Role
Our Engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud Platforms to Mobile Apps, from eCommerce functionality to Machine Learning.
Our Engineers work collaboratively and share knowledge, and learning is extremely important to us.
We are driving a culture of whole team accountability for quality and continuous testing and are looking for people who can help us do that. Initially, as a Staff Quality Engineer you will be embedded into a software engineering product team composed typically of a Delivery Lead and a mixture of iOS and Android Engineers delivering our mobile apps.
As well as creating and executing some of the team’s checks, your role in the team will be to mentor others in testing practice; coach them to adopt and improve their quality approaches including deployment approaches and observability; review and contribute to the team’s codebase and pipeline configuration; help the team with their system of work from first business need to monitoring services in production. At all times you will also have an eye on what good looks like to the customer / user.
As a senior member of our Quality Engineering Community you will mentor more junior members and help them with their personal development. You will work with a diverse range of technical and non-technical stakeholders which will require excellent communication skills. Advocating for improved engineering approaches will also require strong stakeholder management capability.
There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you.
Learning new skills is extremely important to us. Engineers are expected to continuously improve their skills and keep abreast of the latest technologies and techniques regardless of their experience or job grade. In return for this commitment you will be given the resources and support you need to help you with your learning journey.
At a glance
Contract type - This position is a permanent contract.
Working pattern/flexible working - We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a blended working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business.
Location - This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office campus. Please note, any cost incurred as a result of travel to the office is the responsibility of the successful candidate. There is no travel allowance for this role. There is also a responsibility to visit our John Lewis branches when necessary. You will be able to claim travel expenses for these journeys.
Essential Skills/experience You’ll Need
For this role we are looking for a Staff Quality Engineer who has extensive knowledge, skills and experience of delivering native mobile apps for iOS and / or Android devices.
Must have extensive experience of Quality Engineering techniques used to build large scale apps in a complex business environment, leading engineering decisions and influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
Knowledge of architectural patterns used to build mobile applications.
Practical experience of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery of native mobile apps and associated back end services.
Coaching teams in use of Continuous Testing and shift left / shift right approaches.
Thinking critically about engineering approaches, using questioning techniques to lead team discussions about quality risks and appropriate responses.
Leading elaboration activities (such as three amigos sessions) to ensure specificity, consistency and testability of requirements and acceptance criteria.
Reading and writing coded solutions for a variety of engineering needs:
pairing with developers to understand and jointly enhance unit, functional and other coded tests
developing testing utilities
developing and maintaining code in pipelines
creating and maintaining coded checks such as native mobile test automation or automated tests for back-end APIs.
Working knowledge of modern testing tools and frameworks for testing mobile apps, preferably XCTest / XCUITest and / or Espresso.
Analysing mobile non-functional risks (performance, resource usage, variable bandwidth, device compatibility, accessibility etc.) and advising on how these risks should be mitigated.
Understanding operational requirements (such as resilience and observability) and how solutions are implemented and tested.
Desirable Skills/experience You May Have
Experience of Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns
Experience of solutions built using Microservice Architectures and of cloud infrastructure such as GCP or AWS.
Understanding of mobile security threats and experience of automated security testing.
There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you.
Benefits Of The Partnership And The Role
- Hybrid Working.
- Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays (this is pro-rated for part time hours).
- Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy
- Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not
- You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners (some exclusions apply) You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount.
- Simple cycle to work support scheme
- We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them
- Health Care cover
- Learn more about our extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us, visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/
About The Partnership
We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.
We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone...
About the Company
Working in Partnership for a happier world. Our Partnership is an ongoing experiment to find happier, more trusted ways of doing business, for the benefit of us all. We work together to create a successful business and a fairer, more sustainable future for Partners, customers, suppliers and communities. Our Partnership is owned entirely in trust by Partners which means we are more than employees; we share knowledge, power and profit. Our Purpose inspires our principles, drives our decisions and acts as our guide. Visit ... Know more
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