Lead QA Engineer

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role.  If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. Due to the nature of the project it is also required you hold a British Citizenship or Dual Citizenship.

As a QA Engineer, you will join a technical team and be responsible for the delivery of key test activities as assigned by the Lead. The successful candidate will work within a team to support agile development efforts, and business stakeholders, to design, create and execute tests. You’ll need to have the ability to effectively communicate with all members of the Agile delivery team. 
 
You will:

• Review requirements and design documents to generate test cases including identifying test data and defining test environment needs 
• Create and review testing strategies, plans and designs 
• Create and review and optimizing testing processes
• Prepare and execute test scenarios (BDD/TDD) to test the application, network and infrastructure solution at all levels including non-functional 
• Produce Test Reports and be able to report on interim progress 
• Document test results including evidence of any testing defects 
• Report progress, including risks & issues
• Investigating issues and working with the team to identify root cause and resolution 
• Analyse data and test evidence from testing outcome to show compliance to requirements 

Core Competencies

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role:

• Extensive testing experience working in data centric environments - project experience must include data migration, data pipeline (ETL) and streaming
• Gathering testing requirements - developing Feature files and acceptance criteria with business stakeholders and turning them into scripts
• Extensive back-end testing experience - Linux
• An understanding of Kafka/Docker(from a QA perspective)
• Experience working with Jira , Maven
• Experience with BDD and TDD
• Automation testing using any of custom test suites - Fitnesse, Selenium and Soap UI
• Automated performance testing using Load Runner or similar (not mandatory)
• Experience in developing custom regression test suites using any of the programming languages Python, Perl, Shell scripting, Java, MySQL
• Experience of using Cucumber and creating test frameworks
• Experience of creating detailed test plan and test strategy.
• Liaising with the client test leads/managers and align the test strategy/plan created with the overall test plan/strategy and get the required sign offs of all the artefacts created
• Act as a single point of contact for any test related activities and communications related to the project  
• Release Test planning/strategy for the changes to be released in prod
• Create Automation Test strategy evaluating the appropriate options from the available automation tools in the market with a view of creating e2e automation framework which could be integrated and scheduled with standard CI tools like Gitlab/Drone/Jenkins
• Experience in cloud based environments like AWS / Azure / GCP