You will have responsibility of leading test consultants through the process of reviewing and implementing new methodologies & tools throughout the client project. In addition, you will provide mentoring, leadership and direction to other team members, as well as ensuring the quality of the team’s output is of a consistently high standard. You will be part of a high performance team and will have the opportunity to excel and grow your career delivering quality at a fast pace.
Responsibilities
- Lead a QA team, and gather information from business stakeholders to verify and prioritise a set of business requirements
- Prepare, execute and document test cases based on Business & Functional Requirements to ensure thorough testing of requirements in a fast paced environment
- Work with clients to analyse existing or new processes and systems in order to provide high quality advice and deliverables
- Work attentively with the Expleo testing services (functional, automated and performance) to deliver a seamless overall quality service
- Work closely with the clients’ Technical Architects and Developers and be able to ‘translate’ the business requirements to functional requirements for these teams
- Ensure that the scope of a design iteration doesn't vary unless authorised by the Business Stakeholders
- Report issues to management where these could have an impact on a major deadline
- Mentor less experienced analysts and motivate others to provide innovative solutions for team improvement
- Review test cases written by peers to ensure that all requirements are covered in test case documentation
- Re-test bugs to confirm that they have been corrected
- Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff
- Bring a quality focus to product releases
- Have a customer mind-set and eye for detail with applications under test
Qualifications
- A degree-level qualification in a Computer Science discipline
- ISTQB certification
- Non-functional testing Experience within telecommunications or finance industries advantageous
Skills
- Excellent client-facing skills
- People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
- Team work and emotional intelligence
- Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
- Have an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
- High value on openness and transparency
- Ability to influence Stakeholders
- Excellent time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines
- Preferably someone with strong SAP experience
- Preferably someone with strong Banking experience
- Must have 5 years+ QA lead experience
- Experience of working on large technical/infrastructure projects would be a bonus
Experience
- Demonstrable experience in a Test lead position as well as 3 years’ experience testing across a variety of environments and industries
- Scoping and creating functional and non-functional test plans and test data, maintaining the integrity of the test environment
- Test estimation and test planning experience essential
- Quality focused with attention to detail
- Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
- We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
- Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
