Lead Test Engineer - Security-cleared

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Lead-level Test Engineer to work a 12-month contract with our client 3 days per week on-site in the Midlands/north of England (available offices are Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle).

Job Description:

• Lead Test Engineer you will define and implement the strategy for build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up our client's digital services providing leadership, guidance and technical expertise to the test engineering teams.
• set direction for your service/capability and teams that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence);
• ensure that your teams work aligns to standards;
• have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services;
• ensure that you team follow best practice;
• be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making;
• have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.

Personal Specification:

• Have experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices from Monolith service across multiple teams (mandatory)
• Experience in business context/domain driven testing approach for Java spring boot-based application or non JVM based application
• Experience in contract testing and component testing such as API, message based asynchronous testing such as Kafka or similar technology
• Experience in non-relational database ie mongo DB or similar
• Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well-structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java or TS/JS preferred).
• Have experience in non-functional experience such as performance testing ( Gatling, K6 ) and accessibility testing
• Have experience in CI/CD pipeline

Engineering Tools and Technologies

• Cloud: AWS (primary)
• Test Frameworks: Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Playwright,
• Other tools: Spring Cloud Contract, Pactflow, Kafka, Mongodb, Browserstack
• DevOps: Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker
• Performance testing - Gatling, K6
• Observability and Monitoring - Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.

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