Test Lead

Test Lead

Reporting to: Head of Test Practice

Role Description

Our client seeks enthusiastic and driven Test Leads to join our quality service offering. You will have responsibility for leading test consultants through the process of reviewing and implementing the new methodologies & tools throughout the client project. In addition, you will provide mentoring, leadership and direction to other team members, as well as ensuring the quality of the team’s output is of a consistently high standard and ensuring regularly updates to the Head of Test Practice.

The candidate will be highly professional, self-motivated, have excellent communication and problem solving skills, and have the ability to effectively manage stakeholders. You will be part of a high performance team and will have the opportunity to excel and grow your career delivering quality at a fast pace.

Main Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility will be to gather information from business stakeholders to define, prioritise and document a set of business requirements to company standard and quality
• To develop and communicate an Overall Testing Strategy for the Project to include:

• The scope of Testing
• Test Methodology
• Appropriate number of test phases
• Roles and Responsibilities of Project stakeholders in relation to testing
• Environments
• Management of Test Data
• Use of Test Tools including potential use of Automation tools

• Prepare, execute and document test cases based on Business & Functional Requirements to ensure thorough testing of requirements in a fast paced environment
• Work with clients to analyse existing or new processes and systems in order to provide high quality advice and deliverables
• Capable of working closely with Technical Architects and Developers and be able to ‘translate’ the business requirements to functional requirements for these teams
• Ensure that the scope of a design iteration doesn't vary unless authorised by the Business Stakeholders
• Reporting issues to management where these could have an impact on a major deadline
• Experience working in a team-orientated, collaborative environment, mentoring less experienced analysts and motivating others to provide innovative solutions for team improvement
• Review test cases written by peers to ensure that all requirements are covered in test case documentation
• Re-testing bugs to confirm that they have been corrected
• Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff
• Any other duties, which may be assigned by the Project Lead / Quality Manager
• Bring a quality focus to product releases
• Have a customer mind-set and eye for detail with applications under test

Required Skills & Education

• At Least 3 years’ experience in a Test lead position as well as 3 years’ experience testing across a variety of environments and industries.
• Scoping and creating functional and non-functional test plans and test data, maintaining the integrity of the test environment
• Test estimation and test planning experience essential
• Experience with delivering QA process improvements
• Experience in designing and implementing test strategy
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to schedule tasks to manage time and project priorities
• Self-motivated with the ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team
• Ability to influence Stakeholders
• Proven ability to challenge conventional thought and offer unique perspectives and ideas
• Proven ability to deliver high profile activities to tight timescales
• Proven success in both fostering and contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Experience working with Automated and or Performance testing resources
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines, with a drive and commitment to delivery
• Excellent analytical problem determination and solving skills
• Excellent time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams
• Strong relationship management