Senior Software Developer in Test - Services

at  Capital One UK

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Who We Are
At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.
Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good

ABOUT THIS ROLE

Capital One’s mission is to change banking for good by bringing humanity, ingenuity and simplicity to banking. Sitting at the core of these values is our Software Engineering department, whose primary role is to be an effective enabler of Capital One’s ambitions.
We are keen to add a Senior Software Developer in Test to one of our Nottingham based Services teams.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer in Test whose technical skill set lies primarily with technologies/frameworks such as Java, Cucumber, Gherkin, JUnit, RestAssured, Gradle. AWS is Capital One’s hosting platform of choice so your experience of Cloud-based infrastructure will stand you in good stead.

Our Senior Software Developers in Test are people who have the ability to lead by example, build strong and valuable relationships and the confidence to influence at all levels. They also have ability to answer these questions;

• Can you use your abilities to help us shift testing to the left side of the software cycle?
• Can you design and direct a testing strategy at system level?
• Do you intuitively understand how to turn Product requirements into testing scenarios.

We are proud of who we are and what we do and this is an exciting time to join Capital One as we are excited about what the future holds.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Be part of a self-organised Services Engineering team and deliver creative automated testing solutions that are delightful and vital to the lives of credit card consumers across all walks of life
• Convert the goals and vision articulated by Product Management and your management chain into appropriate test approach and test scenarios.
• Question the software that is written with a test approach that demonstrates all of those objectives have been met.
• Define and own the test approach for components, and how they integrate at a system level, for your team. Your approach will meet the objectives of Product Management, Risk Mitigation, Quality and Efficiency
• Be the interface between Product Management’s acceptance criteria and the code the engineers have written.
• Direct clear lineage from requirements, to acceptance criteria, to test scenarios, to code in the work that you do
• Innovate within your team, initiative area and contribute within your technical domain