We are seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to become a valuable member of our CPG teams to support the accuracy, completeness and reliability of our systems. 

The teams in question build and support our innovation and product tracking subscription products. These tools are trusted by over 64,000 marketers, researchers and scientists worldwide and are used to help plan innovations to keep our clients at the forefront of their Consumer Packaged Goods markets. 

Our teams work on a stack consisting primarily of Python, React, and .NET, though we also work with Snowflake and the AWS stack. We are looking for candidates with experience in automation testing and familiarity with our tool stack is a bonus.

We support a Hybrid working approach, from our Belfast office.

What You Will Do:

• Contribute to Testing of New Features: Collaborate with Engineers on your team to carry out testing and other QA activities.  During each sprint provide your perspective on how we can learn and improve our quality approaches.  
• Test Automation and Environment Management: Develop and implement test automation. Coordinating and managing test environments to support test execution. 
• Contribute to Mintel Engineering overall:  Work with QA team members in other teams to improve our company quality standards and best practices.

What We Are Looking For:

• 1-2 years of commercial experience in quality assurance, working closely with software and QA engineers
• Experience with UI automation tools would be beneficial (Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer etc)
• Candidates with an understanding of a variety of types of testing -  Unit / Integration / UI / Performance / Accessibility etc - with demonstrated commercial experience across a number of these.
• Individuals who can quickly pick up domain knowledge and effectively up-skill on relevant topics where required 
• Effective communication skills for collaboration with the team and stakeholders, adaptable and able to work across different teams
• Commercial experience working in an Agile framework, particularly Scrum
• Be able to work independently, be a self starter

Why join Mintel? We are the world's leading market intelligence agency and technology underpins our success. We help our clients understand consumers and consumer markets, and we aspire to provide the market intelligence behind every great business decision. Our technology allows us to deliver data, insights, and opinions in a compelling way to our clients across the globe.

We hope you’ll like our…

• Culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working.
• Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Approach to personal development where every individual has two weeks of personal development time per year to learn and share what they’ve learned with others.
• Frequent social events, both within the department and across the company.
• A working model which is a blend of home and office working.

Mintel is committed to building and supporting a diverse workforce, providing opportunities for all. 26% of our Engineering team and 27% of our Engineering leaders are women. We are proud to be a signatory of Tech Talent Charter, highlighting our goal of improving diversity within our team and supporting industry-wide improvement. We offer flexible working options and provide support, development and growth opportunities.

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