Role Title: QA Lead + QA Specialist

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford, 2 days per week

Rate: up to 507.47 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

We're excited to be offering this opportunity for a talented Test Lead/QA Specialist to join our rapidly expanding team, working at the forefront of technology.T he TAX ADMIN Delivery Group provides an end-to-end service for creating and maintaining IT products based upon the COBOL & CA GEN toolset (formally known as COOL:Gen) Bringing all our TAX ADMIN delivery capability together, consolidated under one management team, allows us to maximise the use of our skills, knowledge and resources.

We drive for greater efficiency and effectiveness to meet the changing needs of our clients, whilst maintaining the excellent delivery standards that we have already set. We presently support 20+ systems including: National Tax Credits (NTC), Computerised Environment for Self Assessment (CESA), Integrated Debt Management System (IDMS), Corporate Data Frameworks, Corporation Tax System, MODES, Repayment Clump (RC) and the Employer Compliance System, Microservices, Internal Apps, and EPG/Transfers.

The work - QA Lead

This is a technical role requiring a Test Management and Quality Assurance skill set and sits within the Engineering community. We are looking for an individual to join the technical leadership function with the Core Systems and Transformation Delivery Centre within the client MU. You will have had experience of hands on testing and test management.

• This role is a leadership role within the test community and is focused on Governance of testing within the DC, assuring quality of testing going forward and providing Technical Leadership and Test Management across multiple deliveries and technologies.
• The role requires interaction both with customers and other third-party solution providers to co-ordinate testing with our teams. The role requires current active test analysis skills in addition to a strategic view of how to deliver the testing.
• Participate in project Inception, Elaboration and Discovery phases within the Agile to understand and deliver the testing into the delivery teams.
• Self-managing, good time management, responsibility to provide cover across multiple services and projects
• Monitor Bugs and other test metrics and report on test progress as required.

The work - QA Specialist

• Designing and implementing test solutions and the automation to support these, often from scratch, by applying best practice approaches
• Applying structured testing and automation approaches, utilising technologies aligned with BDD (e.g. Gherkin/Cucumber)
• A breadth of experience of testing within the CI/CD lifecycle and it's supporting it's technologies and experience of automation testing frameworks
• Applying test approaches and contributing to test strategies and applying risk-based testing methodologies
• Upskilling delivery team to increase QA capability as a whole team responsibility
• Implementation of test design techniques, strong test analysis skills
• Knowledge of databases and test data creation
• Apply best practices when identifying and managing Test data
• Providing impacts and estimates for the work required
• Producing test progress reports
• Responsible for the quality of the testing collateral
• Broad knowledge of test levels across Unit, System, Functional and Integration along with NFR testing (typically performance, accessibility, and security testing)
• Defect management, analysis, and defect advocacy
• Support other engineering roles within your team, for example, application dependencies upgrades, application development support, pair programming, configuration management
• Analyses complex business requirements, business processes, and technical architectures and designs.
• Uses these as the basis for the Testing solution.
• Constructively challenges solutions at each stage of the delivery life-cycle

Mandatory skills

• 
  ISEB / ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst
  * Awareness of Agile/Scrum methodologies

Desirable skills
* ISEB / ISTQB Test Management
* Strong Influencing skills
* Strong Team Building skills
* Understanding of agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery lifecycles
* SQL & UNIX experience
* Automation Skills
* Bitbucket/ Bamboo/ Confluence/ JIRA

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!