Senior Automation Test Lead

Salary: up to £60,000
 

Our client is one of the UK’s leading software providers of Shared Care and Health analytics solutions. A “Cloud First” organisation, they are one of Microsoft’s largest UK healthcare data customers with a variety of Azure services and technologies embedded across their suite of solutions. Their unprecedented growth over the last year has seen their test teams growing in number and they are seeking a talented individual to join their development team as a Senior Test Automation Lead.

You will join an experienced and cross dimensional team operating under a Scaled Agile framework, with access to a range of industry leading tools and platforms including Selenium Web Driver, Java, Azure DevOps, IntelliJ IDE and API testing using the rest assured library.

There are plenty of opportunities to grow and develop your skills and our client has been awarded an ‘outstanding’ accreditation from Best Companies for workplace engagement and has featured as one of the UK’s Top 100 Mid-sized companies to work for.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading, co-ordinating, planning and executing automation testing activities for our key azure-based projects. This is a hands-on coding role in a lead position and the ideal candidate will lead the QA automation effort by example and work with our offshore and onshore resources.

The role will include overseeing and leading on all aspects of software development in QA, including peer reviews, coding standards, framework maintenance, tooling reviews and recommendations.

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate successful projects they have been involved with and will need to be able to hit the ground running, working closely with our existing automation teams and frameworks making an immediate impact. Knowledge of Health Care systems would be beneficial but not essential.

If you want work at the cutting edge of technology to improve the lives of millions of individuals across the UK, then this may be the opportunity for you.

 Personal Attributes:

·         Practical experience in automated testing practices (4+ years in a lead position)

·         Hands on experience with C# and Java SE

·         Solid understanding of the .Net framework

·         Skilled in automating frontend and backend applications (Web Apps, Cross browser, APIs, Azure: Microservices, Functions, Service Bus, SQL Azure, Azure storage)

·         Experience using Continuous Integration tools (ADO) and version control solutions (GIT)

·         Excellent experience in Non-Functional testing using industry standard tools

·         Experience of working with structured data (Understanding of XML, JSON etc.)

·         Experience of testing commercial applications within an agile development environment

·         Experience of diagnosing, reporting, tracking and resolving quality issues in Jira

·         Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills both orally and in writing

·         Ability to coach junior members of the team and positively influence fellow team members

Professional Qualifications:

·         ISEB/ISTQB qualifications (desirable)

·         Computing/IT related Bachelor’s Degree (desirable)·

Job Title: Senior Automation Test Lead
Location: Hybrid / Milton Keynes / Homeworking
Salary: up to £60,000
Job Type: Permanent
Job Reference: LH10319

Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this role