Lead Test Engineer

Anthony James Consulting

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java

API

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Build Automation

Automation of Tests

Unit Testing

Cloud Computing

Continuous Integration

DevOps

Github

Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

MongoDB

Prometheus

Selenium

Strategies of Testing

Performance Testing

Spring Cloud

Grafana

Browserstack

Spring-boot

Gatling

Gitlab

Playwright

Kafka

Non-relational Database

Splunk

Docker

Jenkins

Microservices

Job description

Long Term Contract - In Scope - Hybrid Working - 3 Days per week in one of the following locations - Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, Lead Test Engineer - you will define and implement the strategy for build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up services providing leadership, guidance and technical expertise to the test engineering teams.

set direction for your service/capability and teams that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence);
ensure that your teams work aligns to standards;
have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services;
ensure that you team follow best practice;
be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making;
have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.

Requirements

Have experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices from Monolith service across multiple teams (mandatory)
Experience in business context/domain driven testing approach for Java spring boot-based application or non JVM based application
Experience in contract testing and component testing such as API, message based asynchronous testing such as Kafka or similar technology
Experience in non-relational database ie mongo DB or similar
Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well-structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java or TS/JS preferred).
Have experience in non-functional experience such as performance testing ( Gatling, K6 ) and accessibility testing
Have experience in CI/CD pipeline

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