Your new company
Hays Technology are working with a large public sector organisation in Birmingham to recruit a Test Lead on a contract basis for up to 12 months to cover a period of maternity leave. Our client is looking for a Test Lead who has significant automation and manual testing experience to lead a team of two Test Analysts as well as being hands on technically themselves. The team you will working with is a mixed discipline team of .NET developers, testers, designers and BI developers that provide software solutions for stakeholders of the institution in the areas of web, mobile, integration and data. Highly dynamic, the team use Scrum with Agile Testing with cutting edge and cloud-based tooling to bring quality and value to a wide spectrum of stakeholders.
Your new role
What you'll need to succeed
* Experienced Test Lead with experience of managing other testers
* Able to conduct end-to-end testing on applications and technology, to ensure that business, technical, functional and non-functional requirements are being met throughout the agile SDLC.
* Comprehensive understanding of test methodologies and techniques
* Good experience with Agile development methodologies and testing in agile development
* Pro-active in requirements gathering and analysing need for test in given scope of project using BDD (Behavioural driven development)
* Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills and an ability to understand complex applications with a keen eye for detail.
* Follow and improve testing standards and strategy document as new best practices are evolved.
* Experience of introducing new, suitable test techniques, processes and tooling.
* Identify test types and coverage for ongoing projects and implements strategy to achieve them.
* Liaising
with product owner/project managers, teams and team leaders
* Able to work closely with developers as part of small Scrum teams in an agile dev-test environment.
* Experience of a test management tool such as Azure Devops - Test Hub or equivalent
* Experience in Manual, Automation (Unit/UI Functional/Integration), Performance and Accessibility testing using industry standard tools - preferably Microsoft products.
* Experience in test automation tools and framework - such as Specflow, Selenium, Appium,
Xamarin (mobile UI test automation), Jmeter or similar
* Experience in exploratory testing and assisting/coordinating UAT testing
* Experience in basic SQL queries and backend testing.
* Experience in mobile app and responsive testing
* Preparing
test scripts
and frameworks for automated regression suite.
* Conducting
continuous testing and upgrades
throughout sprints
* ISTQB foundation level certification
* Excellent interpersonal skills to build strong working relationships and communicate at senior levels.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
* ISTQB certified to Advanced and/or Agile Tester
* Mentoring and training scrum team to increase test capacity.
* Experience of Microsoft Azure Test Hub to manage work, bugs, test plans & cases, etc.
* Xamarin and Microsoft Test Cloud
* Cloud (e.g. Azure) for hosting, test automation, etc.
* Knowledge or experience in release management
What you need to do now
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