Test Engineer - Ordnance Survey : Job Details

Test Engineer - Salary £37,511 to 44,130 (dependent on experience) - Hybrid Working

Our growing Technology team plays a key role in ensuring OS (Ordnance Survey) is at the forefront of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services.

Join us and you'll have an opportunity to make an impact and be part of an organisation committed to driving sustainable outcomes. At OS, we use location data and intelligence to help customers build more resilient societies, preserve the environment, foster healthier, happier spaces that people want to live in, and support the delivery of improved public services and critical infrastructure.

Join our dynamic Technology team

This role is based within the Core Data Services Platform Team, part of Data Derivation. This is an Agile scrum team comprised of 3 sub-teams, each with a focus on different types of spatial data transformations, and each with a strong mix of developers & testers. Ordnance Survey has a testing community of 70+ test professionals that support each other with regular sessions on test related topics, tools, and techniques - be a part of it!

About the role

• Implement automated tests using our existing test frameworks, and extend these frameworks as necessary
• Validate data quality using big data testing tools
• Analyse data transformations in order to establish the best way to test key business requirements
• Contribute testing acumen into agile team ceremonies such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily standups
• Communicate software risks & test outcomes with the team, team lead, project manager & test lead
• Support the Ordnance Survey Testing Community, with common standards such as metrics and use of test tools
• Here is a snapshot of the technologies that we use
• Scala, Apache Spark, Databricks, Apache Parquet, YAML, Azure Cloud Platform, Azure DevOps (Test plans, Backlogs, Pipelines), GIT, GeoJSON
• What we're looking for
• Highly skilled in creating, maintaining and peer reviewing test automation code, preferably in Scala
• Previous working experience of back-end testing and/or data testing
• Excellent knowledge and skills in software testing & industry best practices
• Working experience with Agile Scrum, collaborating with the team for backlog refinement and ability to estimate testing activities for sprint planning
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices, and how they relate to test
• Experienced with the management of defects, identifying, debugging, and working with the team to resolve them.

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Check out how we support and invest in our employees by clicking here.

• Salary - £37,511 to 44,130 (dependent on experience)
• Performance related bonus up to 10%
• A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%)
• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining additional to bank holidays (3 taking over Christmas)
• Paid maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Free subscription to OS Maps
• Access to online learning platforms
• Coaching and Mentoring schemes
• Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like

• An extra days' leave for each year you work, up to 33 days
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working
• Free onsite parking at our modern HQ in Southampton
• We adopt flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances
• Eyecare Vouchers
• OS Explorers Nursery discount
• Cycle to Work scheme

Location: We embrace a hybrid working model at OS and understand there is no one size fits all in relation to how we work. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire where you will be required to be in the office for approximately 8 days of the year for various team workshops, with the remaining time being a personal choice as to whether you work from home or spend more time at OSHQ.

Security: OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some of our roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if additional clearance will be required for this role.

Closing date: Sunday 8th December

Please submit your CV along with a covering letter which describes why you should be considered for this role.

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together - in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.

We are looking for enthusiastic people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.

We're individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.