Our Mission
Trainline is the leading independent rail and coach travel platform selling rail and coach tickets to millions of travellers worldwide. Via our highly rated website and mobile app, people can seamlessly search, book and manage their journeys all in one place. We bring together millions of routes, fares and journey times from 270+ rail and coach carriers across 45 countries. We offer our customers the best price for their journey and smart, real time travel information on the go. Our aim is to make rail and coach travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices.
Technology @ Trainline
Over half of our staff are technologists who are making an impact on how people travel through the use of high-quality software.
At Trainline we have a modern and scalable tech platform that is built for volume and feature growth. Our mission is to find the perfect journey for our customer, and to do it in a fast, intuitive, reliable, and economic way. In a highly dynamic industry and with the ever-changing needs of our users, we must be ready to act, test, and measure quickly, in a way that only extensive and focused use of technology can enable us to. We have the power to revolutionise our customers’ travel experience through technology innovation.
Did you know that Trainline has:
· 20+ engineering teams
· 400+ software engineers
· 40+ daily Production deployments
· 600 services
· 96m+ monthly visits
Responsibilities:
We are looking for an experienced quality professional to join our horizontal Quality team with skills in Android and iOS test frameworks, delivery pipelines
Help teams to consistently improve and deliver to the highest standards.
Problem solving - define and deliver simple and effective testing solutions.
Pairing with developers to help them to fully cover automated tests from unit tests to UI tests.
Help drive and contribute to the strategic and tactical Quality agenda.
Take responsibility for specific strategic and tactical quality improvements and initiatives.
Mentor, Coach, Lead, and Pair with teams to facilitate the effective testing and quality improvements.
Facilitate root cause sessions to investigate issues and guide to positive conclusions.
Maintain and support existing test frameworks
Able to focus on the needs of a particular development team while maintaining a good awareness of the full Trainline tech landscape
Behaviour & Skills
Be an advocate of quality in everything you do
You will be working within a fast-moving growth environment so your ability to work at pace with real energy is critical – you will have a passion for delivering awesome solutions
Combined with our proactive approach, you’ll be passionate about process improvements to take testing to the high standards
You’ll bring a real appetite and curiosity for detail and a proactive approach to ‘go find’, identifying opportunities to improve efficiencies and developing enhanced internal controls
Significant experience of automated test approaches with some exposure to any or all of the following
TDD/BDD
API Testing
UI testing
But why should you join?
You will be working in a high performing and collaborative multi-cultural team. We have over 42 nationalities across our 5 offices in London, Paris, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Milan who work closely together.
We want our people to stretch their minds, abilities, and share their knowledge. Each year we hold The Trainline Tech Summit, which provides Trainliners with an opportunity to stand up and share their story, learnings, or new skills with their colleagues in a safe environment.
We've always paid special attention to flexible working as we value a strong work/life balance. The pandemic has taught us that a balance between remote working and being in a collaborative office environment leads to productive teams.
Our Culture
Coaches Over Heroes
We prioritise the focus on being one team over elevating the heroics of an individual, for us the true heroes are those who are excellent at nurturing, coaching and generous in sharing their knowledge with others.
Well-being
Everything that we do takes into account the morale of every member of our team, their opportunities for growth and for participation in exciting challenges.
Mentoring and Learning
We have a mentoring community that is constantly growing, we provide people with mentors or buddies from various teams.
Trust
We hire awesome people capable of making smart decisions - empowerment is a great enabler of agility. It is within a supportive team that you will feel the strength to thrive and try new things knowing that everyone will be there for you along the way.
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.