Job Description

Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Our purpose is our momentum. It makes us feel good because we know we\'re doing good. As we lead the way to a greener future, we do it together. We\'re all about connections - with each other, with our customers and with the world. Just as our platform brings the world together, it\'s our ambition that connects us. We motivate each other to go beyond our limits, to experiment, to fail and to always grow.

With over 110 million visits every month to our platform and \xc2\xa34.3 billion in net ticket sales, we\'re always innovating and making moves towards our final destination - a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

And we couldn\'t do any of it without our incredible people driving us forward. Today, we\'re a FTSE 250 company that\'s proudly home to more than 1000 Trainliners from over 60 nationalities across offices in London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels. It\'s this diversity that energises us and makes us stronger, helping us to achieve amazing things.

With our sights firmly set on further European growth, there is no better time to jump on board this high-speed train and be part of our continued success.

Great journeys start with Trainline.



Introducing Quality Assurance at Trainline\xf0\x9f\x91\x8b

Quality is at the heart of our customer and engineering experiences. Our QA team helps define a set of industry best practices, techniques, and tools to enable our engineering teams to achieve the expected level of quality and increase our pace of delivery; thereby improve customer satisfaction, platform reliability and engineering productivity.

Purpose of the Role

This role operates within a small group of QA Engineering experts. The focus of this role is driving quality practices for our Web platform. You will be a quality expert to our Web platform product engineering teams, supplying specialist test knowledge, and sharing your hard-won experience. Teaching, coaching, and working with our engineering teams to enable the whole team to own quality, you will be confident in your expertise and an authority on what good looks like.

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• Gain a good understanding of our products, especially our front-end solutions developed by engineering teams you work with. Working with our teams give you the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and patterns. Our teams work on a range of technologies including ReactJS, Node, TypeScript and GraphQL.
• Help grow the community of excellence across our front-end product development teams by advocating and influencing the best quality practices.
• Work within your area to define quality outcomes and a roadmap to achieve them.
• Be able to write high quality code to create or enhance test frameworks.
• Actively consider key non-functional requirements for your area of work.
• Driving a self-organised agile team; accountable for your team\'s delivery while promoting collaboration and transparency with stakeholders

Qualifications

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• Have had experience in organizations with a shift-left approach to quality.
• Very high energy and enthusiasm, with a passion for delivering awesome solutions.
• Have in-depth experience of planning, executing and validating tests Web hosted applications.
• Possess excellent engineering skills in Typescript (or JS) and significant knowledge of automated test approaches and tooling.
• You have an in-depth knowledge of JS based front end test frameworks like Playwright (or Cypress, WDIO etc).
• You have extensively used test approaches like mocking, component testing, visual testing, browser compatibility testing, automated accessibility testing.
• You are well versed with evaluating front-end performance and understand the concepts of collecting and interpreting data from analytic tools.
• You have an excellent understanding and real-life experience of using TDD.
• Have a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and managing tests within them.
• Understand cloud hosted microservices, micro frontend architecture and associated challenges.
• Have familiarity with containerization, databases, and observability tools.
• Have strong Agile experience with a good understanding of how Quality and Agile work together.
• Are a problem-solver who can apply their skills to technical issues.
• Are a pragmatic self-starter with a keen interest in technology.
• Know what good looks like, and how to get there - you are an experienced test expert who values the broad range of testing activities that together ensure quality in the product.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building, coaching, and influencing skills.
• Have the right attitude to challenge status quo and improve situation (continuous improvement and critical mind)

Additional Information

Why should you jump on board?

We pay special attention to learning and development and organise quarterly company learning days as well as offering a learning budget that can be put towards resources of your choice. We will cover the costs of your professional subscriptions and give you access to our very own learning platform.

At Trainline, we care about the wellness of our employees. We host puppy therapy sessions, in-office yoga and run Mental Health First Aider training courses as well as having an Employee Assistance Program as one of our many company benefits.

We regularly throw fun social events such pub quizzes, karaoke nights and our large-scale Summer and Winter Festivals every year. Additionally, we love hosting meetups in our amazing event spaces and having the opportunity to support internal and external community groups.

We also hold companywide hackathons and our annual Trainline Tech Summit, which provides Trainliners with an opportunity to stand up and share their story, learnings, or new skills with their colleagues in a safe environment.

Our flexi-first approach

We believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible workforce. Our flexi-first approach outlines our commitment to a hybrid way of working and our expectations of Trainliners. A key part of what makes Trainline special is our people and the value we get from the buzz and energy of our workplaces, and that\'s why we\'re proud to offer the best of both worlds. In practice this means in-office attendance at least 40% of the time over a 12-week period for all Trainliners. These in-office days are typically team led to help us connect, collaborate and create together.

Our Values

• Think Big - We\'re building the future of rail
• Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
• Do Good - We make a positive impact
• Travel Together - We\'re one team

Interested in finding out more about what it\'s like to work at Trainline? Why not check out what our employees say about us on ? You can also find out more information by following us on or our \'Life at Trainline\' account.

We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it\'s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.

The Trainline