Principal Testing Engineer (Decisioning Products)

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What We'll Bring:

TransUnion UK provides the data, analytics and software that enable businesses to build more valuable customer relationships. We specialise in managing consumer data for businesses across every sector.
We focus on developing innovative products and services that help businesses make smarter and more informed decisions throughout the customer lifecycle.
We’re TransUnion and we believe in Information for Good

What You'll Bring:

About this Role:

As a Principal Test Engineer, you’ll be using your enthusiasm and knowledge of testing practices to help us deliver high quality products, leading the testing in a scrum team to ensure quality throughout the process.  You'll be working on both new and existing systems based on SQL Server and C# Services.

You will define and improve our practices and ways of working. Mentor and coach members of the team to ensure everyone is working to, and improving on, high standards.

To help project teams, leading the Testing effort, to ensure the delivery of high-quality products and services for TransUnion through the application of professional testing techniques, knowledge, and best practices.

Impact You'll Make:

Key Responsibilities:

• Process ownership for test processes and procedures, lead continuous improvement in this area, ensuring the processes/procedures are effective.
• Collaborate effectively with the other Principal Test Engineers to ensure consistency of practices and leadership for the Test Community 
• Provide subject matter expertise to other departments around TransUnion in how to perform testing and ensure quality in their approach.  
• Take responsibility for the optimisation of the testing being performed at all stages within the product teams and ensure this is done in an efficient and effective manner following best practices. 
• Learning/L&D strategy – put forward guidance on the overall direction (where there are departmental level needs) in a timely way to support overall learning needs analysis cycles. 
• Competencies – actively contribute to future versions of the Development Organisation Framework and advise on industry trends we’d want to consider when creating new competencies. 
• Support recruitment – provide guidance on interview questions/approaches/scenarios, feed in gaps in overall test function that recruitment could resolve, support the interview process. 
• Provide coaching and mentoring to individual testers, contributing to individuals’ development plans
• Able to adopt a leadership role within the Product teams in both a test management and wider sense, contributing to (and leading where appropriate) scheduling, planning and design activities.  
• Work with relevant stakeholders to create test approaches appropriate to the context of the release and product strategy.  Ensure product team strategies are consistent with wider test community strategies. 
• Ensure that status reporting is done effectively, keeping stakeholders up to date with test progress using appropriate forums/mediums. 

Skills and Experience:

• Commercial experience of leading and managing teams involved in testing activities
• Ability to motivate and inspire teams and successfully introduce improvements through, for example, the adoption of best practices
• Commercial experience of testing software or database solutions within an agile development lifecycle
• Passion for quality excellence and delivering the right thing - Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Problem ownership and resolution
• Collaborative approach to testing, passionate about testing throughout the development lifecycle
• Experience of test automation techniques
• Performance Test approach and understanding.
• Willingness to learn new technology skills and testing techniques to keep pace with improvements in testing process.

• Commercial experience of interacting with the wider business/stakeholders to advise, promote and consult on testing principles and activities.
• Experience of BDD/ATDD techniques.
• Technical skills related to test automation.
• API/Web service testing experience.
• Experience of performance/load/security/usability testing.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Lead, Software Development