Test Lead

Role- Test Lead

Location- Sheffield, UK (Hybrid)

Employment type- Contract

Must have: Banking domain experience

Role and Essential skills required:

• Highly experienced Test Lead (min 5 years) with excellent communication skills
• Experience working within a globally distributed organisation
• Experienced at creation of multi environment and multi-phase test strategy and plans
• Expert at creating and reviewing test scenarios from business requirements
• Strong, theoretical, and practical knowledge of API and Database testing
• Define project level functional and non-functional test approaches.
• Experience of using at least one of the following tools: Postman/SoapUI/Insomnia
• Expert level at Jira and Zephyr test tooling
• Good experience of test planning, reporting, co-ordination, and execution of all test activities
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience of automation testing tools including Selenium, Tosca and test data creation tooling
• Hands on experience of automation and end-to-end testing within a complex environment across multiple applications
• Leadership skills that empower and motivate team
• Experience of Agile/Scrum projects
• Ability to identify test entry and exit criteria and act on non-compliance
• Ensure the test function follows an auditable robust process where controls can be evidenced.
• Produce test estimates and work closely with the Project Manager to ensure project work is delivered to required timescales and quality levels.
• Work alongside business analysts, scrum-masters and project managers to understand business goals/drivers and deliver testing artefacts to the required timescales.
• Implement, maintain, and improve test team principles and strategy that address all aspects of the Test process.
• Create Project level Automation Framework and ensure test automation is used effectively to minimise test cycle timescales while maintaining high quality standards.
• Define and manage regression test pack, ensuring it's kept up to date by the team
• Provide test completion certification to move into Release process.
• Ensure testing enables development projects to be delivered on time, meet business requirements, and fulfil end-user requirements.
• Assist with identifying and resolving systems issues.
• Defect management across all test phases and remediation activities including leading triage sessions for project specific bugs
• Coach test team in proper test procedure, review techniques used for all types of testing practiced in the test function.
• Provide regular reports to senior management to demonstrate progress of the test function.
• Input into overall performance and NFR testing
• Participate in project meetings with business and technical stakeholders to understand and deliver projects.
• Ensure all testing follows the defined test process and provide input and updates for improvements where needed
• Take responsibility for keeping test process relevant and up to date
• Make important decisions relating to test within the context of the delivery environment
• Conflict management and problem resolution skills
• Positive team player working as part of a large programme
• Process Improvement - Establish performance testing standards, best practices, and governance frameworks across the organization
• ISTQB Intermediate level

Desirable experience and skills:

• Previous experience within Identity and Access Management, Privilege Access, Secrets Management tools, Access and Identity Management systems including AD/ADLDS
• Experience of testing on both on and off premises test environments
• Experience of automation testing tools including Jenkins, Maven, Junit Jupiter, Selenium, and Selenium WebDriver
• A working knowledge of Java.
• Any exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ
• Analysis of design and other documents for testability
• Previous experience within Identity and Access Management- preferable
• Any exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ, Identity warehousing, and working with protocols and formats for data ingestion such as SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC and CSV
• Experience of testing graph database management systems (GDBMS)
• ServiceNow, AD, AWS, Azure integrations
• Testing functions and decision points "As Code", such as Policy as code
• Experience of GitOps Repos
• API Testing, API Gateway testing, Batch ETL testing
• Team Leadership & Management - Proven ability to lead, mentor, and manage other engineers within the team
• GCP (Cloud) testing approaches and methodology.
• SaaS Testing
• ISTQB Manager