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At 11:FS we see ourselves as the challenger team dedicated to helping banks and FS players transform themselves and the industry we love. For us this means rethinking what it takes to operate in financial services top to bottom to help our partners build and launch next generation digital propositions around the globe. To do this we need an amazing team so we have pulled together the best in financial services and beyond. Our people have co-founded and grown challenger banks like Monzo, Starling, and Tandem, led the technology platforms at Nutmeg, Betfair and beyond and transformed banks like Lloyds, Halifax, Barclays, QNB and Natwest. We are effectively building and launching new startup propositions for our clients and ourselves. We believe in treating every opportunity like a business, not a project and in treating resources as if they were finite, even when they are plentiful, and our customer's reputation is as important to us as our own. We truly live our values at 11:FS, and they are critical to your entire journey here. Cultural fit is as, if not more, important as pure technical fit, and as part of your interview process we’ll deep dive in our values and your beliefs. Everyone at 11:FS fits our 4 core values: Team, Attitude, Communication and Impact, and this remains at the core of our growth. Our Consulting practice builds challenger propositions globally. Yet we don’t work like a consultancy, or an agency, or research house for that matter. We are designing and launching new fintech startups for our clients and ourselves and treat every opportunity like a business, not a project. To do this we hire great people and get out of their way What you'll be doing: We are looking for an experienced test, automation and release specialist to help build digital banks. We typically build our propositions on cloud using containers. We favour React and React Native for front-end, creating both mobile and web UI, and we build microservices with clean APIs at the back end. We strongly believe that quality is everyone's responsibility, but we also understand that strong QA is a skillset, but more importantly a mindset that needs to be represented as part of a cross-functional team. We need someone to own and lead 'quality' both within and across several cross-functional team - not to do all the testing, but to ensure appropriate testing is in place, and that our testing provides the most 'bang for buck' - knowing what to test. We’re big believers in autonomous teams and iterative development, but we also need some standard principles and practices across those teams. Although this would initially involve being hands-on in one of our teams, as we take on multiple builds in parallel, we need someone to lead our Quality 'Guild' across the projects. This would involve defining what 'good' looks like in terms of testing, workflow, automation and release process, mentoring and guiding embedded QAs in cross functional teams. Our clients are large banks and other enterprises, and we need to ensure we can meet their stringent security and compliance processes in a smart way whilst challenging them, so experience trying to do things better in a legacy organisation is highly valuable. We strongly believe that you grow a system, rather than build it, so our architecture and infrastructure is designed to allow us to roll small bits of code to production really fast. And really often. Releases should be frequent and safe, and that requires a suite of automated tests that test the 'right' areas - we don't like 'test theatre'. At a minimum we want to see that you have experience of working in cloud based, continuous deployment type environments and that you can demonstrate that you understand that with this awesome power comes a lot of responsibility to make sure you are doing things right. The qualities we want to see: We’re looking for a skilled and experience technologist to help us build robust and reliable high-quality services. We need a strong but pragmatic QA mindset, someone who is familiar with what a good user story looks like, and can help create appropriate acceptance criteria. Someone who can challenge the engineering teams and help them hold themselves to account on process and quality. QA needs to be baked into our engineering, so we need someone who can support embedded QAs to drive the right behaviours. We don’t want a QA team who tests after the fact. Testing is 'part of the team', not a phase at the end of development. We want test automation to be part of our development lifecycle. We’ve made a good start with unit tests and feature tests, and we’re working on automation on all areas of our software. We know that 'setting up a test framework from scratch' is pretty simple, and we're more interested in how the tests are defined, how they're tuned at different stages in the pipeline. We need a person for whom quality and automation is first priority. If you come to work with us, you will: Pair with other engineers to create and improve tests. Pair with developers and platform engineers and be willing to be hands-on yourself in automating and improving the testing capabilities of our system (even if you're not a coder). Help us continually improve our test processes and approach Help us make sure we’ve got excellent automated tests across our platform and in our customer integrations Help us continually improve our release process Work with embedded QAs and other engineers to build continuous security testing Your Technical Skills: Experienced in test automation and knowledge of the benefits (not necessarily hands-on, but the part they play in release process and pipeline. Focused on accuracy and attention to detail Able to continually challenge and hold strong engineers to account, guide and push them to improve quality all the time. Experience with Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS or GCP), and how testing can play a part around infrastructure and continuous compliance (particularly in regulatory terms) Other Skills: Agile/iterative software development experience Team player (the team is bigger than the individual) Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, high-energy environment Self-starter who knows how to commit and deliver Ability to be flexible and pragmatic with technology decisions Understanding product-focussed software development i.e. principals such as minimum viable product Excellent communication skills Taking ownership Independence and self-motivation while still being able to work with others collaboratively Desire to always improve and learn new things Why work with us? Discretionary bonus Flexible working Private medical Pension - match up to 4% Income protection Life assurance Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption leave Free eye test and contribution to eye wear for VDU Corporate gym membership Season ticket loan Birthdays off (or your childs if you prefer) *No agencies please. We will accept unsolicited CVs as free gifts, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to pursue the candidate.* . 11:FS does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

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