You will have responsibility for leading the Quality Assurance delivery of projects through the process of reviewing and implementing the 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 and ensuring regularly updates to the Head of Test Practice.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leading and working as part of a collaborative QA team with responsibility for delivering client projects
• Analyse and understand requirements documentation to identify testing scope
• Identify testing types required to ensure quality delivery (functional and non- functional)
• Responsible for preparing test strategy and issuing to project stakeholders for review and sign off
• Responsible for creating and maintaining test plans and schedules
• Ensure development and peer review of functional and non-functional test cases
• Responsible for ensuring test cases are accurate and maintained
• Defect Management
• Collaborate with multiple teams across the business and SDLC
• Exposure to automation testing tools
• Drive continuous process improvement

• Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff
• Daily liaison with clients to develop and enhance relationship
• Ability to work closely with stakeholder peers across project management, development and the business PC/Product
• Ownership of QA RAID log and escalation of issues to management where required
• Ensure requirements traceability and coverage

Required Experience & Skills

• Minimum 8 years QA and software testing experience
• Minimum of 3 years as a Test Lead
• Experience in Line management and performance management
• Previous experience in leading and mentoring QA resources at all levels
• Proven experience in delivering test estimation and test plans
• Exposure to project delivery using test automation tools and frameworks
• Proven project experience working in different testing methodologies i.e. Agile, Waterfall
• Experience with Test management tools
• Strong leadership and people management skills

Education

• Computer science/Information technology related degree desirable
• ISTQB Certified (minimum Foundation level) or similar