The Web & Apps department is at the heart of ASOS Technology; our goal is to create the ultimate customer experience through inspiration, engagement and excitement for the fashion industry. We achieve our objectives using the latest technologies at scale to surpass our customers’ expectations. 

On the ASOS Android team, you will have the opportunity to join a group of top talents who adhere to best practices in everything they do. As a team, we never sit still, so if you have a knack for thinking up fresh ideas, love working in a fast paced and innovative environment, are passionate about technology and what it can do, we would love to get in touch with you! 

Working on the Android team, you will help deliver value for more than 18 million active app installs (constantly growing) across both iOS and Android. Our Apps are loved by our customers worldwide and are 5 stars rated. We’ve been featured on the Play Store multiple times. We work closely with Google when launching all our features. The ASOS App is 100% native using the latest version of Kotlin. 

The ASOS Apps team currently consists of six interdisciplinary sub-teams (three iOS, three Android) composed of Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Engineering Managers, Product Owners and UI/UX Designers. We collaborate with the Web team and numerous API teams whose services we consume. 

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? 

• You are passionate about quality and about mobile apps 

• You have experience coaching and mentoring other QA team members 

• You are used to challenging existing ways of working and tooling choices, guiding your team and to be smarter about quality 

• You have an inquisitive mind and the ability to think outside the box 

• You have experience working in an Agile environment 

• You have hands-on experience testing native Android apps  

• You have coding experience in Kotlin/Java. Additional languages are a plus. 

• You have extensive experience with different aspects of testing including automation, exploratory testing and ideally API testing in addition to front-end testing 

• You have extensive experience writing automated tests using Espresso or similar (e.g Appium) 

• You have hands-on experience with Continuous Integration (we currently use Azure to automate our pipeline but exposure to other relevant tools like TeamCity or Jenkins is sufficient) 

• You use tools like Android Studio, Charles Proxy, Postman (or similar), GitHub on a daily basis and also don’t shy away from implementing your own ones if needed! 

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING: 

• Testing new features of our Android shopping app, from early requirements stage through to production 

• Collaborating closely with developers, UX/UI designers, Product Owners and other QAs 

• Collaborating with external API teams during development 

• Participating in stand ups, planning sessions and retrospectives 

• Raising and triaging bugs 

• Own the testing for features, including both manual to automated tests (using Espresso) 

• Ensuring features are delivered to a high quality 

• Driving process improvements that will benefit the quality of the app 

• Contributing to writing acceptance criteria 

• Guiding junior members and promoting best testing practices within the team 

• Ensuring that the team are actively challenging and improving the testing capabilities of the CI pipeline 

• Participating in frequent releases and driving the streamlining and automation of all release-related activities 

• Ensuring that the team monitors Production during and post release using tools like Crashlytics, New Relic and Google Play Console and reporting and following up on any identified issues 

• Giving feedback to developers on the architecture of the application to improve testability and ensuring that the team consider the architecture of the application when discussing the testing of features 

• Helping the team make decisions on tooling choices through good questioning and POC design 

TECHNOLOGY @ ASOS 

ASOS is one of the UK’s top fashion and beauty destinations for ‘twenty-somethings’, expanding globally at a rapid pace. We believe fashion can make you look, feel and be your best and, with technology in our DNA, we deliver the latest trends to our digital-obsessed ‘twenty-somethings’ market. Our award-winning Tech teams sit at the heart of our business. We deliver technical innovation and pioneer incredible solutions which are crucial to our continued success. We’re brave, creative and authentic; we’re extremely ambitious and thrive on the individuality of our amazing employees.  Our values encompass everything needed for our tech people to be the thought leaders of tomorrow. 

WHY WORK HERE? 

●      Generous salary, bonus and pension matching 

●      Great development programmes 

●      Amazing offices and great culture 

●      25 days holiday plus one extra day for your birthday 

●      Subsidised gym and canteen 

●      Huge staff discount and regular sample sales 

●      Life Insurance, medical care, cycle to work scheme 

●      And tonnes more…