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QA Lead Engineer
Hybrid – Swindon or London
As a Lead QA Engineer at PayTech reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for leading a number of QA Engineers across several scrum teams, ensuring that the depth and breadth of our testing delivers high quality software to our customers. You will work alongside Development Leads to define and deliver automated test suites, allowing for rapid and repeatable testing of services.
You will be an active member of the Quality Assurance Centre of Excellence alongside other QA Leads, defining and implementing improvements to our ways of working, tooling and best practices, striving to continually improve and innovate.
Key Responsibilities
Plan, implement and monitor effective test creation & execution across the scrum teams
Contribute and support the effective handover to release engineers, supporting and resolving regression issues
Contribute to our methods and techniques that ensure the quality of development
Drive improvements to quality assurance through the use of metrics and active CoE participation
Uphold adherence to standards and best practices
Line management of permanent QAs within the teams (c.6 in total)
Support and mentor line reports in developing their skills and experience, spread knowledge across teams
Work as “one team” collaborate closely with Development Leads, Product team and wider QA teams
Take responsibility for the effective resolution of issues as they arise and drive remediation thereof
Technical Skills
Significant commercial experience of testing API-based systems within a microservice or monolithic environment
Demonstrable experience of TDD and BDD tools and techniques, including test automation
Significant experience of creating test plans, approaches and risk-based testing
Data creation and curation
ISTQB Foundation (minimum)
Experience or some knowledge of the following would be beneficial:
Prior line management experience
Java
SQL, API and web services (REST), SOAP, AWS services, XML/JSON
Tools: Postman, Cucumber
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