Test Lead Job at Solirius Consulting (London)

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Lead/Senior Quality Engineer able to assist with leading projects with our government clients. You will have the opportunity to shape how Quality evolves over an exciting period for the technology team and business overall. You will ideally have a strong understanding of automated testing, be able to apply this both in a hands-on approach coupled with experience in strong leadership with teams of test engineers at all levels.

Job Responsibility

Support the Quality Engineering practice in day-to-day operations
Define and implement test strategies, review existing test strategies, and ascertain areas for improvement
Play a key role in architecting the businesses approach to Quality Engineering
Promote quality outcomes and value across Solirius and our clients
Help Solirius to deliver high quality outcomes at pace
Oversee multiple complex project teams to provide technical leadership on improving the way things are done, providing advice and direction to team members and stakeholders
Work closely with senior delivery partners with a variety of and critical applications with large user bases

Requirements

Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop highly effective working relationships with colleagues, IT suppliers and business stakeholders
Experience developing the quality strategy across the business, evaluating what the current practices look like and identify areas for improvement
Working closely with business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QA approach
Proven experience of defining and implementing test improvement strategies
Experience in hiring, coaching, and mentoring high performing teams of SDET and Test engineers
Deep Agile experience with CI/CD and shift left development practices
Solid testing background and experienced with Automation at a hands-on level
Experience with Delivery and Technologies ideally across the Government domain
Ability to manage multiple resources and allocate workload across varying teams and projects in parallel
Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing objectives works well under pressure
Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
Be an advocate of Quality Engineering, Continuous Improvement and industry recognised best practices
Project management experience and the ability to lead teams from pre day 1 strategies to project completion
Experience of working with a range of automation tools and frameworks
Experience with API testing, ideally using RestAssured
Can work with development teams to ascertain best practices for unit and other developer testing
Testing Frameworks - Knowledge of Test Libraries for Acceptance and End To End Testing
Build Automation Tools - Familiarity with open source build automation tools
CI/CD Tools and Pipeline - Knowledge of at-least one build tool eg Jenkins CI
Proven experience of strong stakeholder management in prominent high paced environments
Previously held a similar role in another organisation
Proven experience of improving processes, setting strategy, delivering improvements, maintaining a quality service, and driving change
Proven experience of driving an automation and shift left strategy
Knowledge of modern technologies and processes such as SecDevOps
Strong proven experience in building and maintaining strong working relationships and leading collaboration with clients

What we offer

Flexible working / Work from home
Private Healthcare
Generous annual discretionary bonus
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
10 days allocated development training per year
Contributory pension
Gym membership
Annual away days and social events

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