QA Lead

You will have responsibility of leading test consultants through the process of reviewing and implementing new methodologies & tools throughout the client project. In addition, you will provide mentoring, guidance and direction to other team members, as well as ensuring the quality of the team’s output is of a consistently high standard. 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.

Responsibilities

Direct a QA team, and gather information from business stakeholders to verify and prioritise a set of business requirements

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 understand existing or new processes and systems in order to provide high quality advice and deliverables

Work attentively with the Expleo testing services (functional, automated and performance) to deliver a seamless overall quality service

Work closely with the clients’ 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

Report issues to management where these could have an impact on a major deadline

Mentor less experienced analysts and motivate 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-test bugs to confirm that they have been corrected

Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff

Bring a quality focus to product releases

Have a customer mind-set and eye for detail with applications under test

Qualifications

A degree-level qualification in a Computer Science discipline

ISTQB certification

Non-functional testing Experience within telecommunications or finance industries advantageous

Essential skills

Excellent client-facing skills

People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions

Team work and emotional intelligence

Good self-management – continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set

Have an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance

High value on openness and transparency

Ability to influence Stakeholders

Excellent time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines

Experience

Experience in API Testing (SoapUI, Ready API, Postman etc.)

Experience in test automation scripting (Selenium, Playwright, Python etc.)

Demonstrable 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

Quality focused with attention to detail

Benefits

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and a substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help our you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges

We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects

Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses

Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!

Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.

Permanent or Fixed Term Contract