Lead QA Engineer

London
3 weeks ago
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Job Description

QA Lead Engineer

Hybrid – Swindon or London

As a Lead QA Engineer at PayTech reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for actively planning, shaping, and delivering all aspects of functional and non-functional testing within the development teams that sit within the domain for which you will be responsible. You will be actively working across the teams within the domain and across Engineering to deliver the best test approach and frameworks. You will be working closely with stakeholders to define, expand or maintain the strategy, and approach for testing with a view to delivering quality releases to the end customer. You will equally help drive best practice and continuous improvement from within. Our passion is for our Customers - everything that we do should be driven from this.

Key Tasks



Work with an Agile framework to deliver quality builds by the development teams

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Work with the Release Engineers to plan, manage and report on regression testing

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Contribute to our methods and techniques that ensure the quality of development

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Drive improvements to quality assurance and identify gaps in processes, people, tools, and metrics

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Uphold adherence to standards and best practices

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Ensure knowledge is spread across teams

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Work as “one team” to ensure deliveries are on time and to a high quality

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Take responsibility for the effective resolution of issues as they arise and drive remediation thereof

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Contribute to the PayTech QA strategy and identify areas of improvement

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Line management of permanent QAs within the teams (c.6 in total)

Technical Skills

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Significant commercial experience of testing enterprise level systems that incorporate either microservice architectures or monolithic systems

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Significant experience of one or more of the following

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TDD and BDD tools and techniques

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CICD

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Data creation and curation

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DevOps practices and principles

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ISTQB Foundation (minimum)

Experience or some knowledge of the following would be beneficial:

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Java

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Automation framework – Junit or Selenium/Cucumber

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SQL, linux/Unix, Jenkins, Jira & Confluence, API and web services (REST), SOAP, AWS services, XML/JSON, Working with large databases

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Tools: SVN, Bitbucket, Ant, Maven, Tomcat, Apache, Postman

Why PayTech?

We are a subsidiary of the Edenred group and leaders in prepaid solutions including banking, virtual cards, debit, credit, and prepaid processing.

As a PayTech employee you will get the support and structure that you need to enjoy your work and develop your career while doing what you love and making a difference in a fast-paced and innovative business.

What you will get:

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Hybrid working environment with a 3 days per week in the office

Income protection

Life insurance (4x salary)

Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program (extended access to family members)

Employee discount shopping platform

Digital learning platform

Complimentary fruit and other ‘in office’ snacks & refreshments

Volunteering programme

Social events

Pension Scheme – employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%

Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance

Holiday trading scheme (buy or sell up to 5 days)

Medical & international travel cover (leisure and action sports)

Monthly gym allowance

Employee referral bonus scheme

Season ticket loan

Cycle to Work scheme

Diversity:

Edenred UK and PayTech are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on age, race, colour, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws

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