Jobs at Trade Me in United Kingdom

Company benefits: At Trade Me we encourage you to keep learning.

Trade Me is New Zealand's most influential e-commerce platform, and our vision is to be the place 'Where Kiwi look first'. We want to be the first place that Kiwi find a job, a rental property, their new house, a new car, the first place Kiwi want to work, and where they go first to buy and sell new and used items.

Our Engineering teams show up every day to provide a top-notch experience for our consumers to keep Kiwi engaged and coming back to buy and sell with us. We're now looking for an intermediate Test Analyst to join a special project squad focusing on the technical delivery of a compliance project.

Why this role is important to us: This fixed term Senior Test Analyst role (until 30 June 2025) is vital in helping us deliver operations that adhere to Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML CFT) legislation. As part of the AML Squad, your rapid, focused and efficient testing will help us complete a critical piece of work while ensuring our customers are getting the best out of their Trade Me experience. Additionally, we seek someone who can get up to speed on Trade Me's test automation strategy, ensuring that the testing processes for this initiative align with Trade Me's overall testing standards.

Here's a bit about what you can expect in this role:

• Advocate automation across teams and disciplines.
• Find and address challenges with our processes and practices.
• Find opportunities to apply new, innovative technologies to solve our current business problems.
• Perform and document context-driven testing activities across all relevant platforms.
• Create and maintain suitable automated checks in accordance with the test strategy.
• Participate fully in agile delivery processes; leading the analysis, design and development.
• Manage the deployment of cases to production, and support resolution of incidents.
• Identify and resolve production bugs through the triage process.
• Advocate and facilitate increasing ownership of quality amongst the whole squad.
• Regularly communicate with the squad and wider stakeholders about the progress, risks and overall quality of the products.
• Help engineers with their test planning and execution.
• Monitor production environments and triage possible bugs or anomalies.
• Audit test automation suite coverage and state, and implement corrective actions upon drift.
• Test and audit applications' security and performance to make sure they are aligned with our standards.

Here's what you'll bring to our team:

• 5+ years' experience in similar roles, ideally with a mixed background of exploratory and automation testing.
• Ability to automate processes using Bash, Python, or similar tools.
• Experience working across different layers of the technology stack.
• Experience applying context-driven testing approaches would be ideal.
• Experience in API, UI/ mobile automation.
• Experience in using monitoring tools like Splunk and New Relic.
• Ability to wrangle data using SQL.
• A good team player and trusted advisor, able to provide support and advice to others with a positive attitude and a willingness to collaborate.
• Organised and comfortable with self-directed work; adaptable and can cope with change in a fast-moving environment.
• An eye for detail; willing to work through the little things to make our web experience faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.
• Propensity for personal motivation, initiative, adaptability and the willingness to face challenges head-on.
• A willingness to learn and collaborate with your team and the wider business.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies preferred, but not required.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

Apply online for this role or contact Wytske Garty for more information.

Trade Me connects Kiwi to create the life they want. Join us to shape the experience of thousands of Kiwi and grow your career from day one!

Whether it’s the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or smaller things like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff, Trade Me is the place Kiwi look first.

At Trade Me, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the best and have the best time doing it. We may have grown up as a company, but we still have the spirit of a startup: a hunger for growth, good vibes, good people and good times.