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RELX INC Principal Quality Test Engineer in London, United Kingdom
About the Business:
With more than 10,000 global customers, Brightmine, formerly XpertHR, is a leading provider of people data, analytics and insight for the HR sector. We help HR leaders confidently navigate the evolving world of work through our unique combination of critical workforce data, AI-enabled technology and trusted HR expertise. At the same time, we're creating an inclusive, people-focused environment of our own. A culture where individuals with ambition, curiosity and ideas can make an impact. Where you can think big, aim high and explore more.
About our Team:
Our team is composed of highly motivated and enthusiastic QA engineers, full-stack developers, data engineers, and business analysts, all leveraging the Microsoft stack for application development and data engineering.
We specialize in building highly scalable data solutions that enable seamless data sharing with various customers. Additionally, we collaborate closely with Data Operations, Data Science, SREs, and Product Management to ensure robust, efficient, and high-quality data products.
Operating in a fast-paced agile environment, we prioritize speed and agility while maintaining high standards of quality. Our team is geographically distributed but works seamlessly together, fostering effective collaboration to design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions.
The successful candidate will coach and develop a team of 5 other QAs to drive process improvements and implement best practice.
About the Role:
A Principal QA role on a data platform data engineering team is responsible for leading the quality assurance function and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. The role involves developing and executing automated and performance testing, defining objectives and roadmaps for QA, implementing quality metrics, and owning QA end-to-end from discovery to delivery. The Principal QA also collaborates with cross-functional teams to plan and conduct testing, ensures that testing addresses requirements, identifies cost-effective tools to enhance testing and product quality, investigates and resolves performance problems, leads continuous improvement initiatives, and implements best practices.
At RELX, we are committed to advancing gender diversity within the technology sector and supporting greater representation of women in tech. To further this commitment, RELX has implemented the following initiatives:
Women in Technology (WiT) Mentoring Program: This program is tailored to enhance career development for female talent in tech roles across all our businesses.
Women’s Network Forum: We offer dedicated forums that foster community, mentorship, and professional growth for women.
Inspiring Future Talent: We actively engage with schools, hosting events to inspire young females to consider and pursue careers in technology.
Responsibilities
Leading development and execution of automated and performance testing for large or multiple diverse projects
Leading the QA function, defining objectives, QA roadmaps
Suggest, implement and track quality metrics – e.g. code coverage
Owning QA end-to-end from discovery to delivery and beyond
Creating automation frameworks from scratch to test diverse set of software from typical web application (front end, rest APIs) to data platforms (like ADFs, Databricks etc)
Collaborating with teams to plan and conduct automated and performance testing for quality assurance
Ensuring that testing addresses requirements as agreed with other stakeholders
Leading initiatives to identify and implement cost-effective tools to enhance testing and product quality
Collaborating with IT professionals to investigate and resolve performance problems
Leading continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices
Requirements
Possess extensive expertise in Quality Test Engineering gained from over a decade of experience
Have an Engineering-Computer Science BS or equivalent experience;
Has experience leading / coaching / line managing other QAs to drive improvements in the function e.g. adopting new tools and process enhancements
Able to automate using tools/frameworks like playwright, cypress, selenium/webdriver
Able to code in programming languages such as python including OOP, Typescript/javascript, C#
Have experience in CI/CD systems such as teamcity, Jenkins,
Have experience in containerization, Azure - Azure service bus, Function Apps, ADFs
Possesses knowledge on data related technologies like - Data Warehouse, snowflake, ETL, Data pipelines, pyspark, delta tables, file formats - parquet, columnar
Have a good understanding of SQL, stored procedures
Be able to lead development and execution of performance and automation testing for large-scale projects
Be experienced in administration of testing tools-environments
Be able to work within established budgets
Possess comprehensive understanding of industry trends
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here (https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000)
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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.
We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK .
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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
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