ASOS Technology is going through an exciting period of transition and major investment. – this includes a number of strategic programmes to deliver the amazing technology and business solutions to support our ambitious global growth plans. At the heart of these plans is the rebuilding of our digital platforms and channels to provide the best shopping experience for our customers. Our plan is designed to enable us to really put our mobile experience first, enable personalisation and support a data driven organisation. We are also making significant investments in all our Buying, Merchandising, Finance and People systems with the latest toolsets and applications to accelerate the next phase of our global growth. We are also improving our ways of working within Technology to enable autonomous platform development and improve our engineering and agile practices.

Who we’re looking for: 

Essential: 

• You’ll have experience as a technical QA Engineer/ hands on Test Manager that specialises in manual & automation testing of complex integration projects, and systems â€“ utilising all the tools, methods and teams at their disposal. 

• You'll have a fantastic understanding of, and experience with, a breadth of testing types and techniques and at least 2 years’ experience in a similar role. 

• You’ll be able to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships. 

• You’ll be able to define, plan, and drive out all relevant testing phases â€“ Unit, Component, System, Integration, and manage UAT with various 3rd party elements â€“ both internal and external.  

• You’ll be able to define, and implement an automation framework from scratch, and be able to act as a SME for the rest of the team. 

• You’ll be able to define test cases, against a complex set of business requirements – using relevant test design techniques. 

• You'll have experience of working in both agile and waterfall methodologies.. 

• You’re a great team player, strong verbal and written communicator, but also able to work stand alone seeing a project from definition through to go live. 

• You’ll have strong analytical skills – Great understanding of business requirements and an ability to drive conversations around quality with product owners and business customers. 

• You follow the principals of the software testing life cycle, test pyramid and are responsible for driving test strategy for your assigned projects. 

• You’ll be an experienced user of test management tools such as VSTS, HP ALM, JIRA etc 

Desirable: 

• You’ll have strong technical knowledge – Able to interpret technical designs and challenge design decisions. 

• You’ll have working experience in one of the following: C# or Java, NUnit, Junit, jbehave, JSON and XML and Test Automation. 

• Past experience in a project where you implement test automation from scratch and were able to upskill other team members. 

• You’ll have some experience with an object-oriented programming language to author tests at multiple levels and be comfortable with source control, CI/CD tools and Cloud technologies.  (Must Have for SDET) 

• You’ll have hands-on experience of testing Windows Services, Restful web services and/or ESB asynchronous message-based systems (MuleSoft, NService Bus, Rabbit MQ etc.) using appropriate tools. 

• You’ll have an appreciation for the non-functional and have some experience with Service continuity and Failure testing, Performance and Security for microservices. 

About the team:

• We love our customers, as their experience is what’s most important to us.  

• We work closely with our Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Product Owners, Business Stakeholder, and 3rd party teams to ensure that we develop, implement and test a solution that’s fit for purpose. 

We deliver systems using the following technologies:  

• .NET Framework and .NET Core, C# 

• Microsoft Azure 

• NService Bus, Azure Service Bus 

• MuleSoft 

• Cosmos DB 

• SQL Server 

• VSTS, Git, Maven, Gradle, TeamCity & Octopus Deploy 

We release often  

• We’re constantly making small incremental improvements and release them to customers as soon as they’re ready. 

• We use a combination of local builds, test environments and production to test our software. 

We love new tech  

• Technology is at the heart of what we do. We love to explore and experiment with new tech that can improve our customer experience and tools to boost the development and testing process.   

• We are adopting container technology and are in the process of migrating our software to Docker and Kubernetes.   

• We take pride in crafting elegant, maintainable and testable code and embrace SOLID principles and TDD.  

• We use TeamCity, Octopus Deploy and Azure DevOps to automate our build, deployment and testing processes.  

What's in it for you? 

We will give you a competitive salary, bonus scheme, staff discount, sample sales and pension matching but also a fantastic bunch of flexible benefits that focus on your health, wealth & inner self for you and your friends and family.  

We are all equal! 

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workforce.  We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you’re from. Where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. Where individuality is a source of confidence, because difference makes the world a better place.