Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

One World GTM; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Description

What Makes us Different
The One Word GTM platform is highly configurable to fit the unique needs of each customer. Within our portfolio of stack solutions and a vast range of possible services we can seamlessly align to even the most complex supply chains.

We measure everything in the product ecosystem, including the world's physical products and their interaction with global trade. This allows us to accurately evaluate impact, resulting in more sustainable business decision making. Benefiting people, planet and profit.

How You'll Make an Impact as a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer
As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the QA strategy for our products. You will be responsible for defining and implementing robust testing frameworks, ensuring seamless release management, and driving automation strategies to maintain the highest quality standards.

Your expertise in Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Java will be key in building and maintaining automation frameworks that enable reliable and scalable software solutions. Your role will involve close collaboration with Software Engineers, Architects, Product Designers, and Platform Engineers to integrate testing seamlessly into our development lifecycle.

Your efforts will ensure our applications meet the diverse needs of global supply chains, contributing to our mission of creating sustainable, technology-driven solutions for worldwide trade.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Define and implement QA strategy aligned with business objectives, covering unit, integration, functional, performance, and security testing.
2. Lead automation efforts by developing and maintaining automation frameworks to improve test efficiency and coverage.
3. Drive performance and security testing, ensuring resilience through load testing, fault injection, and disaster recovery validation.
4. Own release management, including regression testing, smoke testing, and verification of deployment readiness.
5. Mentor and lead QA engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and cross-team collaboration.
6. Utilise cloud services (AWS, Postgres, DynamoDB) to implement scalable and reliable testing solutions.
7. Champion a data-driven approach, using analytics to monitor system behavior and optimise performance.

What We're Looking for from You
We're looking for a highly skilled QA leader with a strong background in test automation, cloud technologies, and performance testing. You should have a passion for mentoring teams, driving innovation, and implementing best-in-class QA strategies.

Must-haves:

1. Expertise in Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium for automation testing.
2. Strong programming skills in TypeScript/JavaScript and Java.
3. Hands-on experience with building and maintaining automation frameworks.
4. Familiarity with AWS services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS).
5. Knowledge of Postgres and DynamoDB.
6. Deep understanding of unit, integration, functional, performance, and security testing strategies.
7. Proven leadership experience in mentoring QA teams.
8. Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making capabilities.
9. Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, BlazeMeter, K6, etc.).
10. Knowledge of compliance standards (e.g., GDPR).

Our Culture
Life at One World celebrates diversity and fosters collaboration through a vibrant workplace culture. We are proud to be ahead of industry D&I stats, with one in three One Worldians being female, and we celebrate a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Regular social events bring our workforce together, creating a united and inclusive environment. These gatherings provide opportunities for employees to share their unique backgrounds, traditions, and perspectives, strengthening bonds across teams and departments.

Additional Benefits:

1. Performance bonus
2. Hybrid Working
3. Interest Free Company loan up to GBP 1,000
4. Life Assurance
5. Pension Scheme
6. Work from home set up
7. Flu Jabs Annually
8. Cycle to work Scheme
9. Training Budget per person per year - GBP 2750
10. Referral Bonus up to GBP 750 per person you refer to work at One World
11. Care First - Counselling and Support
12. Tailored learning, progression and Development Plans
13. Supply Chain Academy - Educational courses Available all costs covered.
14. Free Eye Test annually + GBP 60 vouchers towards glasses

Life at One World
One World has been providing supply chain software to manage billions of products and thousands of organisations since 2010, and we're now embarking on a journey to create the supply chain of the future using next generation technology, innovation and creativity.

Our mission is to empower supply chains through the management and optimisation of the product ecosystem, to promote trust and optimisation, from cradle to cradle. And that's why our software spans the entire trading ecosystem, enabling a product to be managed through every stage of its lifecycle. This visibility, insight and abundance of data allows us to deliver against our overall vision of sustainable supply chains for the benefit of people, planet, and profit.

We're part of GB Global, which provides comprehensive, fully managed and operated supply chain solutions, stimulating and supporting trade around the world. Since being founded in 1984, GB Global Group has grown to become the UK's fastest growing privately owned supply chain and global trade management company. It currently employs over 3,000 people across its global network and has a turnover in excess of GBP 1.5bn.

We're always looking for passionate, innovative and capable individuals to join our team, who want to be part of making a difference through technology for the benefit of the planet, people and profit.