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Junior Quality Engineer (FTC)
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Dunelm
Junior Quality Engineer (FTC)
Multiple locations
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Hybrid
Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
This is a fixed term contract until the end of June 2026. This role can be based out of our London or Leicester offices. We operate a hybrid working policy.​
You might not think it, but remaining the first choice for savvy homeware-shoppers involves some pretty advanced tech. We’ve moved our whole tech effort serverless, making us one of the largest users of AWS Lambdas in Europe, and we’re bringing more and more tech into our stores.​
As a Quality Chapter at Dunelm, our aim is to enable and support our ability to deliver high quality value, in the right way, based on our customer needs. With a focus on having the right balance of speed and quality to frequently achieve this.​
To be able succeed, our Quality Chapter is made up of 60+ quality advocates (QAs), in various roles, embedded into our 20+ crews and across our 6 domains to enable & implement continuous quality & testing through whole team ownership.​
If you’re excited about joining our growing Quality chapter, then please apply now for our immediate attention.​
What you’ll be doing:
Collaborating on customer focused outcomes based on business need​
Compiling applicable test data for use during various testing stages as needed​
Create and execute (manual and / or automated) test scenarios which demonstrate the business condition/behaviour under test and the expected results​
Testing releases by 3rd party suppliers and communicating on quality and testing practices where necessary​
Track system related defects and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner​
Utilise testing frameworks that fit with the products under test and for use within a continuous Integration and deployment pipeline​
Working collaboratively with the development team to ensure that quality is built into everything we do at Dunelm, focusing on bug prevention​
Help innovate and deliver continuous improvements within the crew(s) and Quality chapter​
What we’ll look for in you:
Essential Skills:
A demonstrable interest or experience in a quality-focused role.​
Working in an Agile environment to ensure quality is driven from the start and throughout the delivery process; not hesitant to pivot quickly and change direction.​
Effective communication skills that will help to support conversations to align on acceptance criteria.​
Advanced critical thinking and problem-solving mindset.​
The ability to learn lots of different tools to support testing techniques with a focus on the problem looking to be solved.​
Able to challenge the status quo; ask the right questions in pursuit of better outcomes but also be receptive to feedback from others.​
Experience with different testing techniques/approaches such as exploratory testing, along with when and where to apply them.​
Quality-first mindset and customer focused.​
Keen interest in the latest technological advancements and a desire to continue learning and exploring.​
Desirable Skills:
Can undertake or have attempted to learn basic code, whether it’s a scripting language or other language.​
An understanding of the software-development lifecycle.​
Knowing basic architecture of how the frontend and backend of an application hangs together.​
Supporting technical skills such as version control (Git) and some simple command line usage.​
Behaviours/Values:
Our shared values of ‘act like owners’, ‘keep listening and learning’, ‘long term thinking’, and ‘stronger together’, help ensure we are always finding better ways of doing things and spending our time focusing on what’s important.​
Leading Self:
As a Quality Engineer with us; you will be able to be your true self whilst seeking to build relationships and empathy with other members of your crew and chapter, to work as a team to take ownership of embedding quality into everything we deliver to our customer.​
You will be empowered to support quality within your crew, enabling continuous improvements to quality and software engineering practices whilst maintaining long-term thinking to stay aligned to the future business and technology roadmap.​
You will be given the freedom to be curious and ask questions to gather more understanding with a focus on the customer, whilst at the same time, be able to communicate clearly with others your own thoughts and ideas around quality and testing.​
You will help to promote a psychologically safe environment to encourage you and others to innovate, think outside the box, adapt and experiment to try different things based on problems or challenges being presented.​
You will receive support and opportunities for personal development. How far you take those opportunities will depend on your growth mindset and desire to learn.​
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Culture overview
We're here to help our customers create the joy of feeling truly at home. Join us and you'll find our caring and inclusive culture makes this a place you'll feel right at home too. Learn Wherever you work with us and in whatever role, you'll have every opportunity to keep on learning and keep on growing. Thrive We'll take care of you, and make sure your everyday needs are met, so you can focus on doing a great job and being the best version of you. Belong We embrace diversity in all its forms. We'll celebrate the individual you are and value the unique contribution you bring. Colleague Networks All of our colleagues have the opportunity to be part of our four colleague networks. These are Disability & Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, Gender Equality and Ethnicity & Race. Each network has co-chairs and an exec sponsor who work closely with us to ensure that we are a workplace where everyone feels supported, celebrated, valued and heard. A chance to give something back We're serious about our role in society. Each of our stores is partnered with a local charity and has its own community Facebook page. And we offer our Pausa Cafés for free to local community groups. We're also proud partners of the mental health charities, Mind (UK and Wales), SAMH (Scotland) and Inspire (Northern Ireland). And each year, we'll give you a day's paid leave to support a charity that matters to you. Work your way We have adapted our ways of working to make sure everyone can feel at home wherever they work. For many colleagues at our Head Office in Leicester and our Central London hub that now includes working on a hybrid basis, combining days in the office with time spent working at home or elsewhere across the business.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Share Options
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Birthday Off
City Centre
Hackathons
Office Dog
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
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Leadership
John Gahagan
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Tech overview
Our Tech, Digital and Data teams are transforming literally every aspect of our business – from the way we manage and make use of our data, to the relationships we share with our customers. Already, their impact has been felt across the business, and indeed by our customers. But this is just the start and we know there are bigger opportunities ahead. Check out our tech blog for tales behind our talented teams: https://engineering.dunelm.com/ Keep on growing Join us on the tech side and you'll have access to a huge array of learning and development opportunities, including a variety of internally created workshops and externally accredited courses. We also have a substantial tech-specific budget to fund e-Learning licenses, conference visits, resources, and qualifications, plus dedicated mentors, well-being buddies and a wide range of network groups to support you as you progress.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Continuous integration
Infrastructure as code
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Company tech stack
javascript
aws-lambda
graphql
react
typescript
jest
nodejs
sql
python
java
Dunelm
Junior Quality Engineer (FTC)
Leicester
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