Software Test Lead

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.