Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Salary: Competitive
Location: Bristol
About the role
We work with a wide range of clients – the Royal Navy, Honda, Orange and many other leading global brands – and an even wider range of technology.
This role is a great opportunity to get your teeth into an exciting, enterprise-level platform that we have built from scratch as part of a Europe-wide IoT system and help drive and deliver new features and functionality.
Responsibilities
We need someone with experience working with enterprise-level software and smaller-scale solutions alike and the ability to solve problems you may not have encountered before in a considered, intelligent manner.
Day to day, we’d expect you to be carrying out the below activities as part of your job:
- Leading projects
- Mentoring other members of the QA team
- Contributing to improving our ways of working and processes
- Exploring and encouraging the use of cutting-edge technology
- Feeding in to estimates for projects
- Communicating complex scenarios and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Solving interesting problems of all shapes and sizes
- Working effectively in a multi-supplier environment
Requirements
We need you to be comfortable with the below:
- Have an excellent understanding of testing principles and methodologies
- Comfortable carrying out both manual and automated UI and API testing
- Using automated testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress)
- Excellent understanding of security best practice and approaches to testing, in line with industry standards and guidelines (e.g., NCSC, OWASP)
- Good understanding of accessibility and SEO guidelines and best practice
- Good understanding of contemporary software architecture approaches
- Experience of testing within an Agile delivery team
- Performance/Load testing tools (e.g., JMeter)
- Mobile Application Testing
Bonus points if you also have specific experience with:
- Cloud infrastructure and services (e.g., Azure, AWS)
- CI/CD and Build pipelines
- Code branching & Pull requests
Tech aside, these characteristics are very important to us:
- Great problem solver
- Enthusiasm for what you do
- Be able to give and receive feedback with an open mind
- Passionate about the quality of the end product
- Have good awareness of industry trends, best practices and standards
- Adaptable at the pace of an agency
- Be able to take on the challenge of learning new tools and frameworks
- To own your place in the team and help to continuously improve the engineering team for everyone
We offer all the usual fun benefits associated with a digital agency plus flexible working hours, the ability to work from home and 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays. We welcome fresh opinions and strive for an inclusive environment.
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Lead Quality Assurance Engineer employer: your Jared
Leidos UK & EUROPE is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where your expertise as a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect will be valued and nurtured. With a strong focus on employee growth, we offer numerous opportunities for professional development and career advancement, all while working in a dynamic environment that prioritises security-driven solutions. Join us in a location that not only supports your career aspirations but also encourages a healthy work-life balance and a commitment to making a meaningful impact.
