Main Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
Definition and implementation of a QA strategy that aligns with our Agile principles and processes
Ensure holistic product quality is achieve i.e. functional, automation, performance, security
Ensure coherent, pragmatic use of toolsets across our products – reusing where appropriate
Manage a team of Senior and Junior Quality Engineers. Provide leadership to team members
Manage the vendor relationship, SLAs and KPIs. Ability to drive the quality outcomes through vendors.
Promote a high-performance work culture focused upon the development and retention of high quality team members
Work with the local management team to drive a ‘quality first’ environment, not limited to Quality Engineering practitioners
Demonstrate Iterative improvement in the quality of our software and be accountable for the overall quality of releases
Apply and contribute to evolving a robust Agile implementation within the teams
Contribute to a wider QA CoP, ensuring your team is empowered to do the same
Develop and improve Quality Engineering standards, practices and metrics. Ensure engineers are empowered to augment and refine these, whilst maintaining necessary governance
Key Relationships:
QA and Development Management
Scrum Team members
Nexus Integration teams
Product Management and other key stakeholders
Wider Quality Engineering members
Essential Skills/Experience:
Capable of motivating and energizing others, as well as gaining their respect.
Experience in leading teams, preferably in an Agile environment
Experience in Functional Automation, Performance. Exposure to Security testing would be nice to have.
Java and/or C# other similar programming language and Automation Frameworks
Experience of using Selenium, BDD Cucumber, BDD Specflow, RestAssured, SoapUI or other functional UI and API test automation tools
Experience of using jMeter, HP-LoadRunner/Performance Center or other performance testing tools
Self-starter - does what it takes to get the job done
Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment
Experienced, able and keen to work using Agile development methodologies
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
Experience of test management tools e.g. HP ALM, JIRA, Confluence, TestRail
Experience of CI/CD pipeline and build tools e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Maven
Proficient using source code management tools such as Git or SVN
Familiarity with and/or accreditation in AWS or similar Cloud technology
Desired Skills/Experience:
Strong CI/CD build and automation pipeline knowledge
Experience with containerization and related technologies
Experience leading both local and remote staff
Education/ Certifications:
A good relevant degree is desirable, but experience and the right approach to work are just as important.
ISEB/ISTQB Certified - Advanced or Expert Level in Test Management
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