Test Team Lead

Our client is a leading international financial services company with offices worldwide and an IT centre in County Clare. They are seeking a Test Team Lead to join their test team on a temporary 6-9 month basis to cover maternity leave. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a test environment in a busy financial company within easy commuting distance of Limerick city.
(Note: This is a fixed term temporary position with a pro rata salary. It is not a daily rate contract)

Role

As a Team Lead you will:
– plan and execute in system and acceptance testing
– assign tasks to the test team members
– be responsible for recommending the adoption of new test automation solutions to management. You will develop test strategies and frameworks
– devise quality metrics, making them available to all stakeholders, and track these metrics
– work closely with the end users to ensure that software solutions are optimised for their needs
– liaise with multiple teams to set up and maintain test environment.

Skills and Experience

Candidates for this role should have:
At least five years' experience in a software test role and experience with:
– leading teams of software testers
– creating test documentation to IEEE 829 specification
– incident management systems such as Jira
– test case management systems such as Quality Centre
– automated test tools
– continuous process improvement initiatives (TPI, TMM etc)
– general process improvement and quality initiatives such as CMMi, Six Sigma or ISO 9002.

Experience of working in financial services and knowledge of client/server testing, file interface formats (xml, web services etc) would be an advantage.

If you would like to discuss your suitability for this role in confidence before applying, you are welcome to contact Margaret Cahill margaret@pbrecruitment.ie