Lead Test Engineer

Role: Lead Software Engineer In Test

Hours: Full time

Salary: Excellent (dependent on experience)

Contract: Permanent

Location: Central London

Responsibilities

Experience of translating user stories, requirements and specifications into test cases with developers and act as a “customer”
Happy to partake in the full development life cycle from identification of opportunity, through spec, QA and feedback
You will be involved in developing frameworks, tests and tools to automate and help accelerate all aspects of product development, pipelines, tooling and service monitoring
You will be proactive and have a strong focus on quality and risk throughout the delivery cycle, identifying and implementing automation approaches as required
Additionally, you will be expected to have a good understanding of a variety of test approaches in a web, desktop and mobile app-based environment
You will be key in testing feature implementations and integration, remaining hands on and practical with the work on the team. You will share your experience of working with high-volume systems, to help provide a resilient and responsive online service for our significant player base
Responsibility ensuring the appropriate and efficient testing strategies are applied (Selenium Webdriver, JUnit, JMeter etc)
A hands-on position participating in code reviews, test execution, issue identification and test planning
Management responsibilities including mentoring/coaching, performance reviews and hiring/building the team

Requirements

If you have most of the following, then we definitely want to hear from you:

Some development experience; e.g. HTML5/CSS, Javascript/Node, Python, scripting
Strong teamwork and leadership skills, ideally having fulfilled leadership or mentorship duties
Good understanding of web technologies and tools e.g. XML, HTML, CSS, JSON, REST, React, Node.js
RESTful API Testing and Automation
Experience in at least one Behaviour Driven Test Framework E.g. Cucumber
Experience in creating automated tests within a Continuous Integration environment e.g. Jenkins
Experience with distributed source control (Git)
Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Defining Test Data and Reports
Experience of working with high-volume systems
Strong communication skills. You will be liaising with the product owner(s), technical leads, developers, and design teams to ensure the testing of new features runs smoothly
Some experience with or knowledge of non-functional testing, e.g. load, availability, failure & resilience
Happy to work across mobile apps, web apps and backend services

Desirable - but not essential

Awareness of retro games
Experience of test and issue management tools e.g. Jira
Understanding of the whole tech stack, from design to implementation to Live, plus an appreciation of how tech decisions can impact and affect other areas of the business
Desire to always improve and keep up to date with current technologies
Experience of Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment
Experience in Agile work practices

If this job sounds ideal, please send a CV and a covering letter to , letting us why you’re the perfect person for this job.