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Zopa Limited - Backend QA Engineer - Python/Kotlin
Zopa Limited ✓ Verified Employer

Backend QA Engineer - Python/Kotlin

📍 London, England 🕒 2 days ago
Verified Base Compensation
£55,000 - £65,000 / year
£4,583 - £5,417 / mo Apply Now →
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Executive Summary

Our Story Hello there. We’re Zopa. We began our journey in 2005 with...

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Our Story
Hello there. We’re Zopa.
We began our journey in 2005 with the drive to deliver customer-first financial products. Fast forward to 2020, we shifted gears and became a digital bank, leveraging our customer knowledge, money expertise and technical agility to forge ahead. Our diverse team is united by a mission to create simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customers’ needs at their heart.
We’re regularly recognised at industry awards for our game-changing products and are proud to be one of the market leaders in consumer lending in the UK. But our work doesn’t stop there.
After securing £220 million in our 2021 funding round led by SoftBank, we’ve entered the next stage in our journey. So far, we’ve lent out over £8 billion and made money work better for over half a million people across the UK who were looking to borrow or save with us. In less than 2 years after becoming a bank, we hit £2 billion in customer deposits and we’re also a top 5 credit card issuer in the UK. And this is just the beginning.
We’re set on achieving big things with ambitious growth targets to match. This means there's a range of opportunities for you to excel and develop through a career at Zopa, while building better banking products that truly matter to our customers.
If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa. For a closer look at our culture, check out our latest video here. And if you want to join us, have a look at our current open roles!

The team:

At Zopa, quality comes first in everything we do. The ultimate aim is to provide a quality experience for our users by building solid processes, following best practice and preventing issues and problems from occurring at an early stage. Therefore we believe that being a QA Engineer is much more than just testing and trying to break code. We value both collaboration (shift left) and autonomy within our small, agile cross-functional squads. It is essential that you work closely with your team to understand the product, advocate for the customer by speaking up and challenging when you feel it is right to do so and be a true driver of Quality.
We're all about Automation and work in an Automation first environment. Some of the tech stack we currently work with includes: Java, Kotlin, Python, Postman, Rest Assured, Cypress, Appium, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka.

About you:

    • Strong experience in backend testing using Python or Kotlin
    • Strong experience in backend automation testing
    • An advocate for quality at all stages and not only when it comes to testing
    • Passionate about creating an unrivalled user experience for Zopa's customers
    • Experienced with CI/CD tools e.g. Jenkins
    • Comfortable working in agile cross-functional teams working closely with Developers and Product Managers
    • Experienced with tools like Browserstack and Saucelabs
    • Experienced in REST API automation e.g. Postman or Rest Assured

Added bonus:

    • Orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker
    • Kafka
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Flexible working? Yes please!

Whether you want to come into our open-plan, riverside London Bridge office or work from the comfort of your own home (or both!), you’ll be able to decide on an approach with your manager, looking at what works best for you, your role and your team.

Not only that – you'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.

  • Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice

To thrive here, you’ll need to:
Champion our customers. Whatever your role, you’ll be close to our customers. We care passionately about doing the best for them.
Help us make fearless choices. Our environment is fast-paced, agile and open. You’ll solve interesting and challenging problems, and be trusted and empowered to bring your ideas to life.
Walk the talk. Like us, you’ll be honest, stick to your promises and face the tough moments head-on.
Win smarter. You’ll be always on the lookout for a better way of doing things, going beyond ‘good enough’ and welcoming different points of view.
Be in it together. You’ll join an ambitious, diverse and all-round approachable team with a mix of ideas and talents who inspire each other to be better every day.

Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to great products and unique company culture. We simply can’t expect to empower our customers to better manage their money without challenging the current status quo. Creating the best place for money is no easy task, which is why we need talent from all walks of life.
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Projected statutory deductions based on standard single-filer baseline tax regulations in the United Kingdom corridor.

Gross Annual Package £55,000 - £65,000
Est. Income Tax Band 20% - 40% Progressive Bracket
Statutory Insurance / FICA 8% Class 1 National Insurance (NI)
Estimated Monthly Net £3,300 - £3,846 / mo
Regional Economics

Cost of Living (London, England)

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Est. Rent (1-Bed)
£1,100 - £1,750
Monthly Utilities
£140 - £210
Cost Index
112.5
Disposable Tier
Top 15% Rank
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Technical Panel

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Official Offer

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