Test Engineers

Job Description

Shape the future of investing!

At Vanguard, we are on a mission to deliver financial success and freedom for our clients. We believe that a world class client experience and exceptional personal finance products are key to driving superior outcomes for our clients. We live this mission every day – everything we do is about the client.

We're one of the world’s largest fund managers and more than 30 million investors worldwide trust us with £5 trillion in assets under management.

We have the fastest growing direct retail investment platform in the UK and are investing tens of millions over the next 4 years to further improve the platform. Our aim is to be the largest retail direct platform in the UK. Our competitive advantage is grounded in our best performing, low-cost funds, our trusted hybrid digital advice offering and our world-class client experience.

And it’s not just our customers who seem to like what we do! Which? recently named us 'Recommended Provider for Investment Platforms' for the third year running.

We’re happy to be a bit different from other fund managers. We’re owned by the people who invest in our funds, rather than shareholders. There is no conflict between doing the right thing for our clients and the right thing for shareholders – our clients are our shareholders.

Our culture is a bit different too. We’re only as good as our people, so we help our diverse crew thrive, both in and out of the office.

To enable this exciting growth, we are looking for Test/Automation Engineers to join our growing technology team.

It’s an exciting time to join us. We’re heavily investing to build a sizeable client experience team and aim to be world-class. You’ll play a big part in our success – and be rewarded for it.

The roles:

The Test/Automation Engineer is responsible for establishing a test strategy for your product team’s solutions that employs automation test tools and practices. You will play a critical role in coaching the product team to further enhance automation testing, BDD/ATDD and TDD practices. You will improve the quality and efficiency of all those involved in developing software by building automated test frameworks and designing automated tests to support the “test pyramid” with a focus on integration and the End to End regression portion of the “test pyramid”. You are responsible for developing and/or finding new techniques & tools for automated testing, and mentoring/coaching others to improve the product team’s ability to efficiently validate software.

In these roles you will:

• Author the product’s Test Strategy recommending appropriate automated and manual testing methods and procedures, and lead the design and implementation of a detailed systems test plan to ensure an accurate and effective product solution
• Evaluate the environment, conditions, and criteria under which test case automation should occur
• Provide leadership and collaboration with the team to develop and execute appropriate End-to-End test cases (manual or automated), and exploratory tests
• Organize, optimize and sustain ATDD and project testing artifacts that define the product baseline
• Optimize the “gold copy” regression test suite, and find opportunities and define a strategy to automate existing manual test cases
• Support Developers scripting the automated tests at ALL levels of the “test pyramid” (i.e. – Unit, Integration, and End-to-End system tests); Participates in the code reviews of all automated tests
• Work with developers to ensure all the test suites across the project combine to minimize risk of outages and/or defects
• Assist with the identification, creation, and maintenance of test data
• Assist the product team members with identifying and/or provisioning system test data using the appropriate available tools
• Assist in gathering business volume metrics, and assemble workload and transaction information to drive appropriate performance testing
• Identify and recommend automation/performance process efficiencies
• Lead test plan/strategy reviews and/or reviews automation or performance scripts with appropriate project partners
• Bring to bear current tool(s) and technique(s) used to automate acceptance tests and link them to requirements key controls (E. g – Cucumber, Jasmine, Jest, or other BDD Frameworks)
• Conduct research on emerging technologies, tools & techniques to efficiently certify software systems.

What it takes: Domain Expertise

• 4+ years software, middleware, or hardware tester experience
• Experience in integrating automation scripts in CI & CD (DevOps) pipeline
• Experience developing test strategies

Agile Experience

• Experience in Agile Development, with specific testing experience preferred
• Understands relationship with Product Owner, Scrum Master, and rest of technical team

Mindset and Behaviours

• Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around her/him
• Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace

Individual Skills

• Advanced knowledge of the following systems tester practices and concepts:
• Test readiness reviews, requirements testability, test script execution (on-line and batch)
• Analyse data and determine discrepancies
• Determine reusability of test deliverables
• Documenting system test plans/scripts
• Quality assurance methodology and inspections
• Thoroughly scoped functional requirements and documentation deliverables

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you get so much more in return. We invest with purpose—and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

A note on flexible working in the longer term - we have transitioned to a work from home model for many of our crew and continue to interview, hire, and on-board future crew remotely. We’ve learned that we can serve clients well, maintain our productivity, and continue to deliver on our strategic goals while most of our crew work remotely. These learnings help reinforce that we will work differently in the future, and we are committed to providing more flexibility than in the past.

As we develop the path forward, we will take a thoughtful approach that both maximizes the advantages of working remotely and the many benefits of coming together and collaborating in a shared workspace. We believe that in-person interactions among our crew are important for preserving our unique culture and advantageous for the personal development of our crew. Given that we expect a balance of remote and on-campus work for most roles, we encourage you to make the decision regarding your job interview and offer knowing that you will be working with your fellow crew members at one of Vanguard’s offices on a regular basis when we re-open. We will provide more details on our evolving approach to flexibility as soon as possible.

INTERNAL CREW, CONTRACTOR & DIRECT APPLICATIONS ONLY

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