About the Business:

With more than 10,000 global customers, Brightmine, formerly XpertHR, is a leading provider of people data, analytics and insight for the HR sector. We help HR leaders confidently navigate the evolving world of work through our unique combination of critical workforce data, AI-enabled technology and trusted HR expertise. At the same time, we're creating an inclusive, people-focused environment of our own. A culture where individuals with ambition, curiosity and ideas can make an impact. Where you can think big, aim high and explore more.

About our Team:

Our team is composed of highly motivated and enthusiastic QA engineers, full-stack developers, data engineers, and business analysts, all leveraging the Microsoft stack for application development and data engineering.

We specialize in building highly scalable data solutions that enable seamless data sharing with various customers. Additionally, we collaborate closely with Data Operations, Data Science, SREs, and Product Management to ensure robust, efficient, and high-quality data products.

Operating in a fast-paced agile environment, we prioritize speed and agility while maintaining high standards of quality. Our team is geographically distributed but works seamlessly together, fostering effective collaboration to design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions.

The successful candidate will coach and develop a team of 5 other QAs to drive process improvements and implement best practice. 

About the Role:

A Principal QA role on a data platform data engineering team is responsible for leading the quality assurance function and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. The role involves developing and executing automated and performance testing, defining objectives and roadmaps for QA, implementing quality metrics, and owning QA end-to-end from discovery to delivery. The Principal QA also collaborates with cross-functional teams to plan and conduct testing, ensures that testing addresses requirements, identifies cost-effective tools to enhance testing and product quality, investigates and resolves performance problems, leads continuous improvement initiatives, and implements best practices.

At RELX, we are committed to advancing gender diversity within the technology sector and supporting greater representation of women in tech. To further this commitment, RELX has implemented the following initiatives:

Women in Technology (WiT) Mentoring Program: This program is tailored to enhance career development for female talent in tech roles across all our businesses.

Women’s Network Forum: We offer dedicated forums that foster community, mentorship, and professional growth for women.

Inspiring Future Talent: We actively engage with schools, hosting events to inspire young females to consider and pursue careers in technology.

Responsibilities

Leading development and execution of automated and performance testing for large or multiple diverse projectsLeading the QA function, defining objectives, QA roadmapsSuggest, implement and track quality metrics – e.g. code coverageOwning QA end-to-end from discovery to delivery and beyondCreating automation frameworks from scratch to test diverse set of software from typical web application (front end, rest APIs) to data platforms (like ADFs, Databricks etc)Collaborating with teams to plan and conduct automated and performance testing for quality assuranceEnsuring that testing addresses requirements as agreed with other stakeholdersLeading initiatives to identify and implement cost-effective tools to enhance testing and product qualityCollaborating with IT professionals to investigate and resolve performance problemsLeading continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices

Requirements

Possess extensive expertise in Quality Test Engineering gained from over a decade of experienceHave an Engineering-Computer Science BS or equivalent experience;Has experience leading / coaching / line managing other QAs to drive improvements in the function e.g. adopting new tools and process enhancementsAble to automate using tools/frameworks like playwright, cypress, selenium/webdriverAble  to code in programming languages such as python including OOP, Typescript/javascript, C#Have experience in CI/CD systems such as teamcity, Jenkins,Have experience in containerization, Azure - Azure service bus, Function Apps, ADFsPossesses knowledge on data related technologies like - Data Warehouse, snowflake, ETL, Data pipelines, pyspark, delta tables, file formats - parquet, columnar Have a good understanding of SQL, stored proceduresBe able to lead development and execution of performance and automation testing for large-scale projectsBe experienced in administration of testing tools-environmentsBe able to work within established budgetsPossess comprehensive understanding of industry trendsLearn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here

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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

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