Lead QA Engineer

Role: Lead QA Engineer

Start date : 1th September 2020

Location : Croydon & Central London

Day Rate : £ 360-390 Outside IR35

Client: Government Sector

Security Clearance : SC Clearance (Mandatory)

Experience : 9+ year

Tenure : 3 years (After 6 months performance review)

Note: Deadline for CV is 15th June and interview will be done through Skype.

Essential Skills:

Must have extensive hands on functional testing experience Agile ( Scrum & Kanban )and DevOps environments .

A strong understanding and extensive hands on test experience of the Sprint , CI/CD pipeline and Release testing Lifecycle along with cloud base services .

Strong knowledge on JAVA language and OOPS concept .

Strong experience in creating Requirement traceability Matrix to map the requirement and do risk analysis before implementation start.

Strong experience to review process and prepare testing artefacts like : Test strategy, Test Plan , Test Estimation , define Testing scope , Code Coverage, pre - requisite , dependencies , Test Entry / Exit Criteria Test Scenarios, Test data and Test results .

Develop and implement different phase level testing such as : Functional Testing (Automation), System integration testing, Regression Testing, Contract Testing, Component integration testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Security testing, Performance Testing, Exploratory Testing & define Risk Based Testing .

Experience of BDD and TDD approach using Cucumber, Gherkin to support ongoing delivery.

Performance Tools : Performance Centre, Neoload, JMeter, Gatling

Pro-active in managing dependencies and co-ordinating on test coverage and execution .

Experience and implementation to adhere TMMi5 standard process and cordinate with third party supplier .

Containerised techniques (using Docker), Ansible Terraform and Cloud Based Hosting.

Open source tools and frameworks including Cucumber , Gherkin , Jasmine , WebDriver , Jenkins / Drone / Gitlab and REST libraries (RESTAssured , Karate) .

COTS CD tooling, JIRA , Bamboo , confluence , Bitbucket , Nexus , Sonar Cube , etc.

Strong experience on micro service architectures and data services tools such as : Pact, Spring Cloud etc.. .

Experience in defiling and advising Test Scope, Open source tools, approach and risk and assumptions across DevOps and Agile testing .

Extensive hands on as well as test management experience in delivering testing against a rich and varied function and technical landscape including cloud-based infrastructure .

Experience in engaging with a variety of stakeholders to get a buy in on approach and co-ordination and scheduling of work to assist in test design and execution .

Reference: 20-05335