About The Role
Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions. We are recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer to join our Hippo Herd. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.
As a Senior Test Engineer, you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support, and maintain user-centred digital solutions. You will be responsible for analysing features, designing test parameters, creating customised quality checks, and writing final procedures.
You will act as a Senior Consultant to deliver testing services to our clients. Senior Test Engineers at Hippo are experienced practitioners who lead technical deliverables, maintain client relationships, and are passionate about developing and upskilling others.
Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries. We leverage deep data insights and continuous innovation to deliver awesome platforms that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data and digital services. The Senior Test Engineer will be a key player and implementer in this mission.
Please note we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at the Senior level; therefore, the advertised salary band represents the entry point for this level, allowing for clear progression within the role, which we are very keen to support.
Your Role in a Nutshell
- Meet with the product design team to determine testing parameters and write comprehensive test plans.
- Create test cases and conduct quality assurance and design performance tests using new procedures.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design, and deliver solutions to client problems.
- Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, resolving issues and potential bottlenecks.
- Present prototypes, solutions, and progress to internal and external stakeholders in a clear, concise manner.
- Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, ensuring challenges are overcome.
- Lead in the recruitment, on-boarding, and line management of other engineers.
- Support other consultants in their professional development.
- Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally through blogs, workshops, or conferences.
Skills and experience that you need
Essential Experience
- Extensive experience in functional and non-functional automation testing.
- Extensive experience across the full testing lifecycle with a proven track record as a QA/Test Engineer.
- Skilled in testing web and mobile applications, including accessibility, cross-browser, and usability testing.
- Expert knowledge of testing tools such as Selenium, Specflow, Cucumber, Gherkin, JMeter, and K6.
- Experience with Containerisation tools like Docker or Kubernetes.
- Expertise in Microservices design and architecture.
- Solid experience with RESTful API Services.
- Mastery of Agile methods and techniques such as Scrum, Kanban, and TDD.
- Skilled in designing and building frameworks to test native and web applications across various scales.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Expertise in Public Cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps.
- Proficient in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, or Azure DevOps.
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
Desirable Experience
- Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects.
- Exposure to Python is highly desirable.
What makes us great
Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on-top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
- Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
- 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- Private health cover
- Private dental cover
- Additional company pension contributions
- Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- Wellbeing contribution
- Charity contributions
- Tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.
Hi, we’re Hippo
At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.
Have a look through our Website at Our Story & Purpose, Our Culture & Values, Case Studies and Our Solutions & Services to find out some more!
Hippo Locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.
