Job Description

Involvement in user story definition and test scenarios: Lead test scenario definition, integrating ATDD/BDD principles and ensuring comprehensive test coverage. Support with issue reproduction and resolution: Troubleshoot complex issues across environments and coordinate with developers and DevOps to address root causes effectively. with developers and DevOps: Build strong collaboration with DevOps and developers, ensuring smooth integration and troubleshooting across environments. Cross-Team : Lead quality discussions with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment on quality objectives and timelines. Agile/Scrum practices: Drive QA contributions to Agile ceremonies, embedding quality into every sprint milestone. Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Lead retrospectives, driving meaningful changes to QA and development workflows. Risk Management and Impact Assessment: Proactively mitigate risks through root cause analysis and recommend preventive measures. Quality standards and defect prevention: Own quality metrics and proactively implement measures to enhance system reliability and user experience. Customer Advocacy: Advocate for customer-focused quality improvements and ensure testing aligns with user needs. Automation creation and maintenance: Define and refine automation approaches, owning the setup and maintenance of robust, scalable automation suites. Automation strategies and tools: Lead strategy definition and introduce innovative solutions to improve testing efficiency and coverage. Tool and Framework Development: Identify gaps in tools and recommend or develop custom solutions to enhance efficiency. Metrics and performance reporting: Own and report on quality and automation metrics, offering actionable recommendations to improve efficiency. Governance and QA principles: Define and enforce governance standards, ensuring QA principles are consistently applied across teams. Technical leadership and mentoring: Mentor Intermediate and Junior QA Engineers while actively participating in hiring and skills assessments. Primary Skills A minimum of 5 years hands-on automation testing experience Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification ISTQB Foundation Level Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software projects Utilizing dev tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Comfortable with source control tools, like GitLab Ability to write integration and UI tests Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Playwright, Selenium (NOT IDE), Nunit Experience in using Typescript/JavaScript, C#, JSON API Testing using Postman or in code Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks Communication skills - ability to communicate with clients, peers and line management Experience of agile and the Scrum or Kanban methodology Advanced Experience with test automation tools and strategies Advanced Experience of using BDD effectively Advanced proven experience with C#/Java and JavaScript Experience with any of the following Frameworks: WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver IO / Cypress / TestCafe / RestShap / Rest Assured Experience with CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing Dedicated to staying updated on the latest testing tools and technologies, with the ability to adapt to new frameworks as needed Secondary Skills ISTQB Advanced Level Certifications Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure. YAML / Kubernetes Cloud (Azure), Azure DevOps. Knowledge of Message Broker Systems Comfortable with using Kibana, Grafana Capable of reading and writing Mongo collections. Exposure to Saucelabs/BrowserStack or similar tools for mobile testing