Lead Test Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Indotronix Avani UK
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Test Engineer role involves defining and implementing automation test strategies to ensure the quality of digital services. The position requires providing leadership and technical expertise to test engineering teams while aligning their work with overarching quality standards. The role is hybrid, requiring three days in the office, and is based in various UK cities. The contract is for 12 months and classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and implement build automation test solutions.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and technical expertise to test engineering teams.
- Set direction for service/capability in line with overarching strategy.
- Ensure team alignment with quality standards and best practices.
- Assess the impact of changes made by the team.
- Maintain an outward-facing viewpoint to understand team and product positioning.
Key Skills:
- Experience in designing and implementing test strategies for distributed microservices.
- Knowledge of business context/domain-driven testing for Java Spring Boot or non-JVM applications.
- Experience in contract testing and component testing (API, asynchronous testing).
- Familiarity with non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB).
- Strong technical automation skills (Java or TS/JS preferred).
- Experience in non-functional testing (performance and accessibility).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline engineering tools.
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS) and various testing frameworks.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Title: Lead Test Engineer
Location: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, UK with Hybrid (3 days per week in office required)
Pay Rate: Depends on Experience
Type & Duration: Contract |12 Months InsideIR35
Full Job Description: Lead Test Engineer you will define and implement the strategy for build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up Client digital services providing leadership, guidance and technical expertise to the test engineering teams. set direction for your service/capability and teams that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence); ensure that your teams work aligns to standards; have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services; ensure that you team follow best practice; be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making; have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.
Personal Specification Have experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices from Monolith service across multiple teams ( mandatory ) Experience in business context / domain driven testing approach for java spring boot-based application or non JVM based application Experience in contract testing and component testing such as API, message based asynchronous testing such as Kafka or similar technology Experience in non-relational database I.e. mongo db or similar Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well-structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java or TS/JS preferred). Have experience in non-functional experience such as performance testing ( Gatling , K6 ) and accessibility testing Have experience in CI/CD pipeline Engineering Tools and Technologies Cloud: AWS (primary) Test Frameworks: Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Playwright, Other tools: Spring Cloud Contract, Pactflow, Kafka, Mongodb, Browserstack DevOps: Gitlab, GitHub , Jenkins, Docker Performance testing – Gatling, K6 Observability and Monitoring – Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.