Test Lead - London - £72K
The Test Lead is responsible for test planning, execution, co-ordination, and reporting of our information systems and software applications to ensure the delivery of high-quality business applications following industry best practice. The systems include; Customer Relationship Management, Web Applications, Workflow Management, Document Management, Microsoft Power Apps and Data Integration.
The Test Lead will be required to work closely with our suppliers and partners delivering solutions to meet the business needs and therefore requires strong communication, planning and co-ordination skills.
Experience
• Demonstrate experience of Leading Test Teams in an agile environment using SCRUM.
• Substantial experience of writing detailed, structured test scripts using best practice design principles.
• Full software development lifecycle experience using structured and agile approaches.
• Excellent understanding of testing methodology and analytical skills to ensure full understanding of potential defects.
• Test automation framework and tools delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of testing across technology platforms such as:
o Customer Relationship Management (e.g. Siebel/Dynamics 365)
o Enterprise Document Management Systems (e.g. OpenText)
o Web Portals / Online Application Forms, and integration (desirable)
o Data Integration (desirable)
• Proven ability to work at a detailed level adopting a “hands-on” approach to identify and pro-actively resolve issues.
• Experience in preparing status reports and defect reports (including dashboards).
Technical Skills & Knowledge
• ISEB/ISTQB Software Testing accredited or equivalent.
• Experience of using test management tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, HP ALM, Jira)
• Good experience of CRM applications, such as Siebel/Dynamics 365
• Substantial experience using the following technology suite (Selenium, Specflow, Nunit, Extent-Reporting, Page Object Model).
• C# Programming language
• Visual Studio 2019 or higher
• SQL
• Experience of MS Office, MS Project and Visio.
• SDLC methodology.
• Testing in an Agile (SCRUM) environment.
• Test leadership and execution of functional and non-functional testing in an Agile (SCRUM) environment.
• Integrating automated test cases with CI/CD frameworks and tools (Azure DevOps).
• Good knowledge of risk management, defect management, task planning and measuring and reporting performance against key metrics.
• ETL testing experience (desirable)
• Browser Compatibility test tools e.g. BrowserStack (desirable)
• Experience of xml and service orientated protocols (desirable)