Test Automation Engineer - Bristol

Software Test Lead Automation Engineer

The Test Lead is able to plan and undertake the full lifecycle of testing activities on a project. This includes defining the testing and acceptance strategy for a project, planning system and acceptance tests and co-ordinating the execution of these plans and managing the relationship with the client with regards to the testing, acceptance and test results. As well as technical skills, the Test Lead requires team leading skills and communication skills.

Role Responsibilities/Accountabilities

Tooling knowledge/experience:

• Jira
• Zephyr
• Cyprus
• Performance testing - Gatlin, Neoload
• File formats - CSV, JSON

Core

• Implement technical solutions to improve test process/efficiency across the business
• Working to understand and resolve difficult technical issues
• Creating technical solutions to improve test process efficiency and validate the quality and performance of a range of technologies
• Produce weekly metrics to communicate to management on test and defect statistics.
• Understand the testing effort by analysing the requirements of a development project
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing
• Take responsibility for the management and reporting of the testing activities within a development project;
• Plan or oversee the planning of the system and acceptance tests and co-ordinates the execution of these plans;
• Apply available standards, methods and tools in an intelligent and effective way, and produce a consistently high standard of documentation of both a technical and a descriptive nature;
• Work with the development teams to automate testing wherever possible.
• Identify improvements to the testing process and assists in their implementation;

Delivery/lifecycle management accountabilities

• Produce weekly metric reports;
• Keep track of the new requirements/change in requirements of the Project;
• Escalate issues regarding project requirements (software, hardware, resources) to senior stakeholders;
• Organise relevant test meetings and appropriate status report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to senior stakeholders as required;
• Take responsibility for the management of the testing activities within a project;

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