Opportunity to join this exciting position in a quickly growing Software group!

Reporting directly to Application Change Manager delivering innovative solutions for a government sector client, we are seeking a highly experience IT Test Lead to join our professional, fun and friendly project team environment on a Permanent role.

In this role your key deliverables will be:

  • Ability to clearly document and articulate the following : Test Plans, Test Approach, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Summary Report and contribution to production deployment plan and activities
  • End-to-end testing experience (Test Analysis, Design, Execution, Defect Management, Reporting)
  • Hand-on experience in Test execution using Manual and Automation test techniques
  • Creating and reviewing test scripts to be incorporated into test plan, requirements analysis and ensuring full requirement coverage & traceability
  • Taking ownership for system test activities and performing functional, integration and regression testing in an AGILE/iterative environment
  • Ability to schedule and develop a work plan in order to work with relevant business users to ensure testing is undertaken in a timely manner
  • Ability to highlight and drive issues forward from identification through to resolution
  • Liaising with Business leads, BA's & SME's to understand the requirements
  • Ability to work well with minimal supervision with tight timelines and deadlines
  • Work collaboratively with the development team throughout the build process to ensure the product follows the requirements

To be considered for this exciting role, you will need to have:

  • Solid knowledge of relevant technology concepts
  • Experience in JIRA or VSTS
  • Web application testing
  • Database testing skills – SQL or Oracle
  • Web service API testing – SOAP or POSTMAN is desirable
  • Experience with Performance testing is desirable
  • Automation experience (Selenium/C#) is desirable using Page Object Model, Synchronisation, CICD – VSTS/Octopus/GIT/Jenkins
  • Experience in BDD using Cucumber and Gherkin desirable
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and analytical skills