Lead Quality Engineer / Specialist

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A fantastic new opportunity has become available Lead Quality Engineer / Specialist with one of our Financial Services clients based in Bromley/London.

Role: Lead Quality Engineer / Specialist

Location: Bromley / London (3 days a week onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Status: Inside IR35

The Quality Specialist/Engineer is part of a centralized team within the Productivity Architecture & Engineering organization.

They support and maintain the compliance through the various systems, processes and tollgates related to the operation and development of the application/services.

Experience and Skills required:

• Experienced in Automation, Test scripts, Test Process and Understanding of Manual testing.
• Microsoft 365 - Email Infrastructure, Workspaces (M365 OneDrive & SharePoint Online) and Core (M365 licensing and infrastructure).
• Establishing a test and automation strategy, Creating common test frameworks.
• Automation tools, Stakeholder Management, Test data generation, Defect management and Reporting
• Experience testing Microsoft 365 products, services, business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used within the business area.

Responsibilities:

• Create and optimize test processes including defect management and reporting.
• Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework & Jira
• Contribute to building quality into the System Design Lifecycle (SDLC) using best practices and tools.
• Create a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.).
• Create and optimize test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools.
• Lead test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams.
• Ensure alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders.
• Optimize test suites employing techniques such risk-based testing.
• Manage test execution and assist with resolving, communicating, or escalating any issues that may result in test plan variance.
• Contribute to test data management approach, processes, and tools.
• Condition and generate test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments. Assist in identifying and managing sensitive test data.
• Participate in triaging reported issues/defects and assist with resolving or escalating them, as necessary.
• Create and manage traceability. Trace tests forwards/backwards through the design lifecycle and back to requirements.
• Use testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment and assist with fulfilment of necessary steps required to promote code base to higher level environments.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.