Responsible for initiating and ensuring the technical and delivery-facing leadership for all aspects of QA engineering at portfolio level.
Initiating test automation and test engineering practices, including aspects of ‘software development in test’.
Reading, writing and debugging code in complex programs and supporting the refactoring of existing test frameworks – supporting other members of the team to do the same.
Initiating the use and reuse of a broad range of tools, including open source and cloud based.
Initiating the delivery of test engineering, typically using agile and CI/CD methods including influencing how the teams develop user stories and acceptance criteria, typically deploying Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Building QAT service capability and coaching others to help improve QAT-wide practices to support the digital service standard, often working as part of a multi-disciplinary team focused on user needs and user centred design.
Key Skills
Extensive hands on test experience within Agile projects, with a strong understanding of the Sprint, CI and release testing lifecycles.
Extensive automation experience and the ability to specify, to develop and to implement automation frameworks and advice on industry best practice.
Experience of leading teams.
Knowledge of Junit is a must
knowledge of testing Web & Mobile platforms - Android & IOS
Pro-active in managing test dependencies, coordinating test coverage and execution.
Knowledge and experience of working with Open Source tools and Cloud based services including Cucumber, Gherkin, Jasmine, Cypress, WebDriver, Jenkins/Drone/Gitlab and REST libraries (RESTAssured, Karate, etc).
Experience of Mobile automation using Appium tools for android and iOS
Experience in selenium and TestNg framework for web application automation
Experience in JMeter tool for load testing
Experience of containerised techniques, using Docker, and Cloud Based Hosting
Demonstrable experience of working with micro service architectures and data services
Defining and advising on test scope, approach, risks and assumptions across DevOps and agile testing.
Ability to work with all relevant parties (project, supplier technical teams, internal technical teams, service delivery, and so forth) to ensure an effective test service is maintained throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.