Who we are
Hours: Monday to Friday 09.00 - 17.00 - 35 hours per week
Grade: CM40
Location: Hybrid role - 104 Dalton Avenue, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6YF & remote.
Competitive salary available on request.
Job purpose
Key responsibilities
1. Report into the Test Manager for updates, risk and issues
2. Lead the project test team and ensure they are fully utilized and achieving project goals
3. Create testing artifacts such as test approaches, test reports and closure reports
4. Ensure the project test team are adhering to testing processes and standards
5. Lead the SIT, UAT and Live Proving test phases to agreed quality gates and timelines
6. Triage defects and chair triage calls
7. Peer review of test cases/scripts
8. Utilises testing knowledge and experience to assess, advise and implement the best test approach for a particular set of acceptance criteria
9. Identifies opportunities for test automation, work in conjunction with other TAs to bring test automation into the process
10. Hands on testing when required
Knowledge, skills and experience required:
Essential
11. Proven experience working as a Test Lead
12. Previous hands-on experience as a tester
13. Strong experience of Testing Methodologies
14. Experience in leading different testing phases
15. Experience writing manual and automated test scripts
16. Well-practiced in cloud-based solutions
17. Experience with SQL/Postman/C#/SpecFlow
18. Skilled with scrutinising data and generating test data
19. Excellent stakeholder management skills
20. Good automation knowledge with the ability to look to automate UI, Database and API testing, via various tool sets
21. Strong technical background knowledge and experience of Visual Studio, JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, Azure DevOps
Desirable
22. Knowledge of Salesforce
23. Experience using Playwright
24. Finance or cash management experience
25. An Understanding of object models and workflow, configuration management tools, and .NET development environments would be a plus
What we offer you
We are a Living Wage employer with Investors in People Platinum status, and as such have a great range of benefits:
26. Competitive holiday allowance with an option to purchase additional holidays (varies by grade).
27. Group life assurance 4 x salary.
28. VaulteXtra discounts on retailers, cycle to work, childcare vouchers, gym membership, cash back on purchase, eye tests and many more.
29. Employee Assistance Programme – a free service should our employees require professional and impartial advice for legal advice and counselling.
30. Robust Learning and Development team and opportunities for career progression.
31. Performance based yearly bonus (grade dependant).
32. One day paid volunteering opportunity each year.
33. Mentorship programmes.
34. Access to Peppy - a digital health platform providing support for healthcare in menopause, fertility, men's and women's health.
35. Access to Aviva Digicare+ for annual health checks, nutritional consultations, mental health support, bereavement support and more.
36. Access to Zurich's Virtual GP service.
37. Charles Cameron - free access to independent mortgage advice.
Our culture
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