QA Lead QA Lead

ABOUT YOU

Are you an experienced QA Lead with excellent Test Automation and QA experience,

experience in building scalable testing frameworks/applications, as well as knowledge in agile and Kanban.

If so, then this role sounds perfect for you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a key member of an established and globally distributed development team, you will be responsible for testing our industry-leading technology platform. As a QA lead/tester you will be expected to adopt a leadership position within the team, helping to shape the future direction of the testing of platform and services. You will have developed a breadth of experience over several years working in similar roles and will be keen to share your hard-won knowledge.
 

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Implement test strategies across Webgains products.

·         Lead testing activities across QA team.

·         Authoring and Maintaining test documentation.

·         Coordinate Release testing and help complete test activities including manual testing.

·         Setting up and maintaining test tools.

·         Review and help manage test environments and test data.

The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
 

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

·         Extensive knowledge of testing techniques including Automation

·         Significant experience in leading test efforts

·         Significant experience with test automation tools for example: WebdriverIO, Selenium, Cypress

·         Previous experience of working with MySQL and SQL

·         Previous working experience of Manual, Exploratory, Smoke and Regression testing

·         Previous working experience with authoring test cases, documentation plans and progress reports

·         Previous working experience of setting up and maintaining test frameworks

·         Some experience with coordinating test efforts

·         Risk based testing knowledge 

·         Agile, kanban development experience

·         Experience with Browserstack

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS:

·         Experience of using Java script/ Typescript

·         Knowledge in BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)

·         Testing React based SPAs.

·         AWS (or cloud computing in general)

·         MySql, ElasticSearch