Description
Rate: £450 (A Day)
Duration: 6 months (Initially)
Location: London (Hybrid)
Ir35: Inside (Must use an umbrella)
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the delivery of quality code and test deliverables by both yourself and the wider sprint and business test teams, while maintaining hands-on testing across a range of applications.
- Protect production environments from any new issues caused by a release.
- Provide technical insight to sprint, business, and release planning teams, working closely with vendors, product owners, and delivery managers to ensure robust plans are in place.
- Collaborate with business analysts, software designers, developers, and testers to set up test estimations, frameworks, and testing capabilities.
- Utilize Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO or VSTS) to manage source code and cover the applications' test lifecycle.
- Work with the wider IT team, business, and suppliers to triage and address any release defects or issues.
- Ensure test deliveries are completed in adherence to SDLC and test processes.
Minimum Criteria:
- Previous experience working as a software test lead in a fast-paced environment, ideally testing across a range of technologies.
- Extensive testing experience incorporating system, user interface, acceptance, and integration testing.
- Knowledge of digitalization processes; Workday/Billing systems; Dynamics CRM; Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint or similar applications.
- Proficiency in automation and performance testing with substantial experience in creating and maintaining automation frameworks and test harnesses.
- Strong knowledge of database testing with advanced understanding of SQL queries.
- Experience with test management tools; preferably Microsoft VSTS/Azure DevOps.
- Excellent communication skills with significant experience in vendor and stakeholder management.