Job Description

About The Role


Hippo is recruiting a Senior Test Engineer to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Test Engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.


Hippo's Senior Test Engineers design and implement quality check procedures for our products and services. You will be responsible for analysing features, designing test parameters, creating customised quality checks and writing up final procedures. You'll also use your experience and expertise to enable our clients to continue to iterate and improve their products and services. You will drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.


Please note, we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at this level (senior), therefore the advertised salary band is the lower end our full banding for this level of position, allowing for progression in the role.


Your role in nutshell:


Meet with the product design team to determine testing parameters
Write test plans and create test cases for the product, conducting quality assurance and design performance tests using the new testing procedures, producing test reports for internal and external stakeholders
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 before they occur
Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
Involved in the recruitment, on-boarding and line management of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
Promote Hippo's Engineering Herd externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)
Skills and experience that you need
Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical/non-technical terms depending on audience
Extensive experience in functional automation and non functional automation testing.
Experience of 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/device and usability testing
Experience of using testing tools such as Selenium, Specflow, Cucumber, Gherkin Syntax, JMeter and K6
Containerisation experience - Docker or Kubernetes or similar
Exposure to Python is highly desirable
Experience of Microservices design and architecture
Restful API Services experience
Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD
Skilled in designing and building frameworks to test native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments
Infrastructure As Code - Cloudformation, Terraform or ARM or similar
Expertise in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps
CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps and Atlassian
Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable
What makes us great
As well as a competitive salary which we're transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 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. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.


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 which will be your contracted office location. 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. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to 8k (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.


Pay: 57,000.00-64,000.00 per year


Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds LS1 4HT