QA Engineer

Category: Support Centre - Technology and Data

Location: : Houghton Regis

As a QA Engineer, you'll enhance the performance and reliability of PremierInn.com, one of the UK's busiest websites handling over £2 billion in transactions annually.


The Engineering Team focuses on the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of technology platforms, products, and services to ensure our systems are reliable, high performing, and continuously improved to meet evolving business needs. 

As a QA Engineer, you'll be part of an Agile Sprint team, working on one of the UK's busiest websites, Premierinn.com. Your role will focus on improving our development process and ensuring that our systems are reliable and high-performing.

Role:                   QA Engineer

Contract Type:  Full-Time and Permanent

Salary From:  £55,000pa and up to 15% bonus

Location:  Digital Office, Holborn, London and a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.

Why You’ll Love It Here

  • Healthcare: Individual BUPA healthcare
  • 10% matched pension
  • Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand

Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/

What you’ll be doing:

  • You'll thoughtfully design, execute, and maintain clear test plans and cases to ensure our software meets the highest quality standards.
  • You'll conduct functional, regression, and integration testing to ensure our software operates smoothly and meets user expectations.
  • Create and implement test automation frameworks using tools like WebDriverIO, Cypress, Playwright, Karate, or Appium to enhance our testing efficiency and software quality.
  • You'll seamlessly integrate automated testing into our CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth and reliable software delivery as well as manage and maintain  test data and testing tools.
  • You'll work closely with development teams to ensure that unit testing practices and code quality standards are consistently met, fostering a collaborative environment focused on delivering high-quality software and support the QA Manager(s) in maintaining the test automation frameworks.

What You’ll Need:

  • Good understanding of programming languages and database concepts.
  • Experience with automated testing tools like Selenium, webdriver.io, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, JMeter, Postman, Karate and RestAssured.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD test automation using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI/CD.
  • Hands-on experience in QA assurance activities across various  digital applications, microservices and mobile apps. data and analytics and ERP software applications.
  • Ability to define test plans, test cases, and automation frameworks to ensure high software quality.
  • Good knowledge of testing methodologies such as functional, regression, performance, security, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
  • Experience with Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps testing frameworks as well as experience with test management tools like Zephyr, Test Rail and defect management tools like JIRA

Be part of our Technology Team at Whitbread

Through collaboration, passion and hiring the smartest minds, our Technology team builds products and services that are used by 38,000 of us at Whitbread and millions of guests. Everything from an eCommerce website that handles £2 billion in transactions per year, applications that are scalable across our 1,200 hotel and restaurants, devices that enable our teams and guests to have a seamless experience, all whilst keeping data secure.

 


We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation that values diversity and welcomes your application whatever your background or situation.

Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQIA+ community (those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans and non-binary or those who use a different LGBTQIA+ term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. Speak to us about workplace adjustments, part-time and flexible working. Where possible we will support this.

Job ref: 68876-4492
Advertised: 13 May 2025

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