[23/01/2025] Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Purpose :We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced QA Team Lead to join our Americas IRIS Accountancy development team. Using agile methodologies, you’ll be part of a Testing team working alongside fellow QA and developers to ensure we deliver to the highest quality standards. Utilizing test cases, testing documentation and automated testing you will ensure the best possible quality for product releases . The role requires close liaison and consultation with software developers, product owners and developer managers and your test team colleagues.Continuous Integration is key to our software delivery strategy, and you will be using existing skills to build smoke and regression testing suites to ensure we cover the applications with automated tests and embed these into our existing and new CI / CD pipelines.You will ensure that the software delivered is of the highest quality, using continuous and automated testing. You will share your knowledge and experience across the testing team. You will need to be highly motivated, have strong communication and problem-solving skills. A team player that can rise to the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment and prepared to learn and apply new technical skills.UI and API Automation is a key part of our ongoing improvements to our testing process and as such will call on your experience in these areas, as we continue to improve our test coverage and implement best practices.This is a great opportunity for you to join a growing and investing product and customer centric business, with significant opportunity for you to share and grow your skillsetKey Skills :A methodical and logical approach to testing coupled with strong diagnostic and analytical skills.Strong communication skills both verbally and written.Familiarity with Jira, Azure or other bug tracking software. Azure DevOps is prefered. Understanding and experience of full software development life cycle from initial scoping and specifications through to testing, release, documentation, and maintenance.Experience in regression testing, usability testing, stress testing, acceptance testing Strong knowledge of automation testing using a JavaScript UI/APi Automation framework.Working knowledge of BDD techniques using Cucumber, SpecFlow, Cypress or equivalentUnderstanding of DevOps practicesDrive for continuous improvement and efficiencyTriage, analysis and prioritization of the support backlog ensuring that KPI targets are metResponsibilities :Collaborate with the product and development teams in agile ceremonies to understand requirements (inceptions, sprint planning, stand ups & retrospectives.)Accurately record the output of testing, logging defects with sufficient clarity and managing them throughout the defect life cycle. E.g using testrailDesigning test cases and following testing standards.Creating, maintaining, expanding and performing automation test scripts.Ability to apply configurations and create test data sets.Maintain and improve quality of the applications delivered by the teamWork with other QA team members across the group via Community of PracticeProactive and able to work autonomously, managing own workload to achieve deadlinesAssisting support team with queries