Senior Software Quality Engineer - Mobile

What you’ll do:

Lead system-level quality engineering and delivery in a cross-functional mobile engineering team to deliver high quality solutions that improve outcomes for our customers
Lead the test strategy, identifying testing requirements, which may include scoping automation or manual testing of complex systems.
Coaching and mentoring engineers with respect to best practices in delivering quality outcomes.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement including focus on stability of environments, CI/CD tooling and more
Elevate quality within the Capital One Android and iOS mobile apps, working across multiple engineering teams
Provide qualitative feedback to stakeholders, so that informed decisions can be made

What we’re looking for:

An experienced adaptable leader with a passion for quality and a strong quality mindset. You will have a broad background in technology, strong technical awareness and problem solving skills, with the ability to be hands-on where appropriate.
Strong experience and confidence with modern testing techniques. Understanding what, how and when they should be applied and why.
A strategic thinker, who understands the importance of balancing the business needs alongside the technical risk. Ensuring risks are understood and mitigated appropriately.
The primary languages of our mobile quality engineers are Kotlin and Swift - the ideal candidate will already be confident with these languages in the context of writing automated tests. However experience and knowledge of any Object Oriented language will be appropriate.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to read the room and adapt style to situation and audience
Collaborative team player who can take people both inside and outside the team on a journey, to solve significant problems.
A desire to have a proactive positive impact on the engineering community and system to grow a quality culture.
A demonstrated ability and track record for leading and delivering quality software when faced with challenging circumstances

What you’ll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageous):

The cloud (AWS) and how we we use it in a highly regulated environment
Modern languages like Kotlin and Swift
Frameworks including Espresso, XCUITest, RestAssured and Gatling
A strong CI/CD and test excellence culture
Mobile Device testing
Progressing developed software through appropriate test stages and to final release
Becoming a subject matter expert for our mobile applications
Working with third party vendor systems.

London, London. United Kingdom