Software Test Lead
Portsmouth, UK
Competitive Salary
If you want to join our team, please forward your cv to our dedicated email address here:
cvs@dthomas.co.uk
Overview
An opportunity has emerged to join a growing team at Dunstan Thomas. Dunstan Thomas is a software company with proprietary software products specialising in the pensions and investment space. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of financial services software testing experience, preferably in the pensions industry, and be able to work within a dynamic and changing environment. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated and pro-active software tester with a commitment to delivering solutions of a high quality to time and budget, and an eagerness to learn and continuously improve.
Dunstan Thomas has a wide range of customers and software products, and the successful candidate may have the opportunity to work across products, customers and teams during the course of their employment.
Key Responsibilities
- Developing the team’s test strategy
- Day to Day management and monitoring of the test process
- Manual and automation testing of desktop applications and web-based applications / services
- Participation in design reviews and providing input on requirements, product design and potential problems
- Recognising test automation opportunities
- Driving test cases from specifications, requirements, and user stories
- Defect Management - logging, tracking, and managing defects / bugs through bug tracking tools
- Analysing test results
- Writing test approach, plans and reports
- Producing Test Metrics for reporting and QA
- Regular communication with development teams and management
- Mentoring more junior members of the team
Essential Skills and Experience Required
- Knowledge and practical experience of pension administration
- Experience in testing both web and desktop applications
- Practical experience of setting up test automation frameworks using Cypress.io, Selenium, Spec. Flow or similar portable test frameworks
- Practical experience of API testing and automation, including a working knowledge of API testing tools like Postman, Swagger, SOAP UI or similar
- Working knowledge and experience of MS Azure Dev Ops and JIRA
- Familiarity with XML, JSON, Java script and SQL
- Ensuring high quality deliverables
- Pro-active and self-motivated
- Effective leadership and management skills
- Excellent communicator
- Analytical thinking/quick learner with a good attention to detail and able to problem solve effectively
Additional / Desirable Skills and Experience
- Degree educated, ideally in a technical subject
- ISEB / ISTQB certification
- Experience of Winforms testing and automation
- Experience of Non-functional testing tools and techniques
Location
Preferably Portsmouth with options for hybrid working, remote will be considered.