Job Title: Principal Test Engineer
Business Overview:
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia in over 30 markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative, and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day-to-day objectives.
Role Overview:
The Principal Test Engineer is responsible for managing and ensuring successful delivery of testing against projects, releases and IT changes.
The Principal Test Engineer a highly skilled and experienced resource will promote quality and advocacy on best test practice, will execute test cases and manage resolution of issues that impede the test effort.
The role is described as a hybrid role between Test Lead and Senior Test Engineer.It is therefore expected that the candidate should be capable of adapting their style to include a hands on approach with testing where necessary.
The Principal Test Engineer will work alongside the business within a project or release squad, therefore communication and collaboration skills are essential for this role.
What you will do:
* You will be part of the dynamic and instrumental Testing Services team, managing all aspects of testing.
* Execution of test cases of a complex or business critical nature
* Subject Matter Expertise for testing of a specific Business Unit
* Maintaining and improving testprocesses
* Adhering to the Test Strategy
* Test Progress Reporting
* Defining, preparing, and maintaining overall Test Plans/Approach
* Test Estimates
* Stakeholder Engagement
* Effective Delivery of Testing
* Documenting test evidence
What we are looking for:
* Highly skilled Test Engineer experience
* Previous‘hands on’ experience on large IT projects and programmes
* Understanding structured test methods
* Experience of Manual or Automated testing
* Analytical approach to work
* Proactive approach to issues
* Attention to detail
* Preparing documentation
* Planning and Prioritisation
* Knowledge of Test Environment setup and Configuration
* Can work effectively within challenging project timescales
* Coordinating people and teams
* Dynamic, Self-Motivated,and Self-Sufficient
* Audience appropriate verbaland written communication
Required Skills:
* Professional Skills (Preferable)
* ISEB/ISTQB
* Agile / Scrum
* Minimum Entry Level
* Experience in a Test Engineer role is essential
Technical (Preferable skills):
* Experience with Automation Test tools
* Knowledge of the following:
* SQL
* Microsoft Excel and all 365.
* Microsoft Visio
* ERP Retail systems
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