Responsibilities
1. Direct a QA team, and gather information from business stakeholders to verify and prioritise a set of business requirements
2. Prepare, execute and document test cases based on Business & Functional Requirements to ensure thorough testing of requirements in a fast paced environment
3. Work with clients to understand existing or new processes and systems in order to provide high quality advice and deliverables
4. Work attentively with the Expleo testing services (functional, automated and performance) to deliver a seamless overall quality service
5. Work closely with the clients’ Technical Architects and Developers and be able to ‘translate’ the business requirements to functional requirements for these teams
6. Ensure that the scope of a design iteration doesn't vary unless authorised by the Business Stakeholders
7. Report issues to management where these could have an impact on a major deadline
8. Mentor less experienced analysts and motivate others to provide innovative solutions for team improvement
9. Review test cases written by peers to ensure that all requirements are covered in test case documentation
10. Re-test bugs to confirm that they have been corrected
11. Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff
12. Bring a quality focus to product releases
13. Have a customer mind-set and eye for detail with applications under test
Qualifications
14. A degree-level qualification in a Computer Science discipline
15. ISTQB certification
16. Non-functional testing Experience within telecommunications or finance industries advantageous
Essential skills
17. Excellent client-facing skills
18. People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
19. Team work and emotional intelligence
20. Good self-management – continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set
21. Have an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
22. High value on openness and transparency
23. Ability to influence Stakeholders
24. Excellent time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines
Experience
25. Experience in API Testing (SoapUI, Ready API, Postman
26. Experience in test automation scripting (Selenium, Playwright, Python
27. Demonstrable experience in a Test lead position as well as 3 years’ experience testing across a variety of environments and industries
28. Scoping and creating functional and non-functional test plans and test data, maintaining the integrity of the test environment
29. Test estimation and test planning experience essential
30. Quality focused with attention to detail
Benefits
At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and a substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.
We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help our you achieve a healthy work life balance.
By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.
31. Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
32. We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
33. Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
34. Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
35. Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.
“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.
At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.