Role: Senior Test Engineer REF 104298
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester, Blackpool or Leeds – 60% in office.
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR TEST ENGINEER
- Set the strategic direction for product teams and the Test Engineering community.
- Lead multiple Test Engineering teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
- Lead delivery of testing activities, ensuring that quality, time and cost objectives are met.
- Act as an escalation point for defects or issues preventing delivery of Test Engineering activities.
- Define the approach for test infrastructure setup and use outputs to drive technical improvements.
- Identify appropriate required technical test tools.
- Monitor performance of the test suite and identify how this can be improved by reducing technical debt.
- Drive standardisation by sharing reusable libraries and services, experience, and lessons learned with other teams.
- Drive collaboration by aligning what teams are working on and highlighting the key dependencies, impacts and priorities.
- Develop appropriate test approaches and reporting mechanisms to be agreed with senior stakeholders
- Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development of citizen services.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR TEST ENGINEER
- Informatica Power Centre and Oracle experience
- AWS, automation testing, SQL, experience in data environment (working on large data sets) desirable
- Able to think outside the box, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to a larger team.
- Leads investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes, driving the collection of information and creation of recommendations for improvements. Can absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions. (Level 3)
- Manages planning of system and / or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications. Able to provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning and can identify the process improvements and contribute to definition of best practice. (Level 3)
- Able to design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques and communicate non-functional test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Able to make decisions on running types of non-functional testing.
- Able to coach and mentor others. Able to raise defects with the business and help prioritise them based on defect severity. (Level 3)
- Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. Able to recognise when something does not work and encourages a mind-set of experimentation. Can adapt and reflect, is resilient and has the ability to see outside of the process. Able to use a blended approach depending on the context. Able to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP). (Level 3)
- Makes sure that teams are using the right tools and methodologies and promotes the use of these. (Level 3)
- Has a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in their role and understands how these fit into the wider technical landscape. Understands the limitations of digital technology. (Level 3)
If you are a Senior Test Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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