Test Lead

EQ is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 5,000 employees across UK, US, India, and Poland, it supports 37 Million people in 120 countries. EQ s purpose is to care for every customer and simplify every transaction, delivered with less of an impact on the environment.

EQ vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base.

Equiniti is a company that has been built with strong values at the very core of our offering. Dealing with some of the most successful companies and government agencies, excellence, integrity, professionalism, partnership, commercial and innovation are therefore at the heart of everything we do.

Role Summary

The Automation Test Lead role is a senior technical role within the team. With a keen interest in technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Lead Engineers seek to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement and provide input to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure you adhere and supporting your Squad in adhering to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
• Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
• Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed
• Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
• Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately
• Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline
• Select appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing.
• Develop and execute test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks.
• Collaborate across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing.
• Analyse and report on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.

Education and Experience

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems

Personal Skills and Qualities

• Emotional intelligence, Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism
• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation
• Active listening and observation
• Continuous learning
• Language and communication
• Creative thinking

Technical Experience at Advanced Level

• QA Methodologies
• Requirement Analysis
• Test planning, design and execution
• Test Data Management (best practice, data privacy, information security, data migration )
• Defect Analysis & Management
• Test Automation (functional and non-functional)
• Data access / Database Query
• Integration and System testing using unit and BDD frameworks
• UI web test automation - patterns and practices
• Object oriented design and programming
• Web services (SOAP, REST)
• Git
• SQL and SQL Server Management Studio
• XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath
• HTML, CSS
• jUnit/TestNG
• Gherkin syntax and Cucubmer/Specflow
• Selenium and Playwright
• FluentAssertions, SoftAssertions
• WCF, Web services, RestAssured, RestSharp
• Postman
• Java and InteliJ IDEA IDE
• Maven
• Jenkins

EQ India Benefits:Being a permanent member of the team at EQ as you will be working on US/UK business hours you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:28 Days + 3 Gift Holidays + 8 bank holidays (UK) +2 Additional Holiday for UK calendar.Comprehensive Medical & Life Assurance coverMaternity leave of 6 months full pay, 10days paid paternity leaveLong Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) for all colleaguesAccidental & Life cover 2 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offerof employment issubject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

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