Lead Test Analyst
Isle of Man
Permanent
Our client seeks a Test Lead to join their team.
Role Profile: You will take responsibility for leading testing activities to ensure quality and reliability across technology landscape. This role ensures adherence to testing standards, collaborates with development and change teams, and drives continuous improvement to deliver secure, high-quality releases. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead software testing teams on a variety of challenging & interesting projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Defining and executing test plans that ensure comprehensive coverage and quality, adhering to departments strategy and processes & implementing test standards and best practices across teams
- Collaborating with Development, Change and business teams to align testing with delivery objectives. Proactively helping with testing to ensure team deadlines are achieved
- Monitoring and reporting on test results, identifying trends and driving improvements, continuous improvement through adoption of new tools, techniques and automation opportunities
- Managing test environments and data to support accurate and efficient testing
- Coordination & support of UAT/BVT testing activities
- Performance management and support of direct reports
Key Skills & Experience:
- ISTQB Foundation certificate in Software Testing is essential, ISTQB Advanced level is desirable
- Minimum 5 years experience of testing, with at least 3 years in a senior/lead role
- Experience of the Finance domain, and Life & Pensions in particular, is an advantage
- Experience of test automation is an advantage
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, able to manage multiple workloads concurrently
- Strong analytical & problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills , ability to engage positively with & gain support from senior management/stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively, or on your own initiative, and deliver to tight deadlines
- Strong understanding of Gherkin syntax, peer reviews and formal reviews
- A genuine interest in technology and software testing
Your specialist: Debbie Amankwa
Quote job ref: 16646
Hi, I'm Debbie and I look forward to receiving your submission for this fantastic opportunity with this business.
