Lead Test Engineer

Role: Lead Test Engineer

Contract Length: 12 Months

Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week in office (except London). So Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle

Must haves:

- Significant experience leading and testing micro services

- Functional and non functional testing

- Hands on experience in automation testing

Leadership skills

- Experience leading microservices transformation (not just working it)

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 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 I.e. 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.