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Born from a desire to view quality holistically across the entire SDLC, our Quality Engineers (QE's) are at the heart of delivering world-class consultancy services. \nWhy Us? \nProudly certified as a \"Great Place to Work\", 2i are the chosen employer of around 400 QE's and we're continuing our growth! We recently announced our eight-figure funding injection as we aim to increase our revenue by more than £50m in the coming years, that is where you come in…\n\nWhat we’re looking for… \nWe’re looking for people who let curiosity lead them. We don't expect to have a team of \"experts\". What we do expect, is for #Team2i to be...\nInquisitive\nOpen to challenge and be challenged\nTaking initiative\nAccountable\nYou have experience with various types of software and infrastructure and are passionate about helping to improve the quality of products you work on, through questions, curiosity and exploration. Our projects and clients are diverse, so what we really look for are people driven to develop and expand their skillset and knowledge.\nAbout the role\nWe're looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join one of our collaborative engineering teams, working on a large-scale, cloud-based platform with a core focus on data quality and automation.\nThis is an opportunity to work on a modern engineering project where automation is at the heart of delivery. You'll help assure the quality of complex data processing and services, designing and maintaining automated tests while working closely with developers, business analysts and fellow Quality Engineers throughout the software development lifecycle.\nYou'll be part of a supportive, experienced team that values continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and engineering best practice. Beyond project delivery, there will also be opportunities to contribute to innovation initiatives that improve tooling, processes and ways of working across both your immediate team and the wider engineering community.\nYou'll need to be...\nDeep and recent commercial experience with automation, developing automated tests in Python using PyTest - this is essential.\nExperienced with BDD frameworks: Cucumber/Gherkin.\nAdvanced SQL or any graph database query language (e.g. Neo4j).\nUnderstanding of Python data libraries such as Pandas and NumPy & ideally commercial experience.\nComfortable working in an AWS environment, with a good working knowledge of AWS components\nCommercially experienced working with Kubernetes and containerised environments.\nExperienced integrating automated testing into CI/CD delivery pipelines.\nConfident using Git and version control as part of collaborative software development.\nComfortable debugging automation failures and carrying out root cause analysis.\nExperienced working with structured data formats such as CSV and JSON.\nAble to collaborate effectively with developers, business analysts and cross-functional engineering teams to build high-quality test coverage from requirements.\nA collaborative communicator who thrives in Agile delivery environments.\nPassionate about coaching and mentoring others, supporting the growth of less experienced engineers and helping build a strong engineering culture.\nAdaptable, proactive and able to balance changing priorities while maintaining high quality standards.\nAdditional skills...\nRed Hat OpenShift and Terraform\nWhat we can offer you...\nLeadership pathways tailored to your personal and professional development, providing clear direction for your career at 2i.\n26 days annual leave, plus the option to buy or sell up to five additional days.\nPrivate Healthcare alongside a range of wellbeing benefits including gym memberships, counselling services and Cycle to Work schemes.\nAnnual performance bonus of up to 10%, linked to both individual and company performance.\nFlexible hybrid and remote working across the UK.\nThe opportunity to work alongside highly skilled Quality Engineers on modern cloud technologies while continuing to develop your technical and leadership capabilities.\nWhat if you're a partial fit?\nCurious? 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