QA Lead Role - Finance/Payments - Contract (RP/QALEAD)

Summary: Lead QA position focused on an essential payment system for a major finance company, emphasizing API testing within the payments team. The role is expected to last for 6 months with a high likelihood of extension. The candidate will be responsible for driving quality discussions and implementing modern testing practices. Experience with various testing tools and frameworks is essential for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead QA efforts on an integral payment system for a finance company.
• Emphasize API testing and drive quality discussions around requirements.
• Identify test cases using various testing methodologies.
• Implement modern software testing practices including Test Automation, TDD, ATDD, and BDD.
• Work with DevOps tools and practices, including Jenkins CI/CD and containerized environments.
• Test and implement API service architecture with Spring Boot.

Key Skills:

• Experience with Java, Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Gatling, Xray, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Pact Testing, and API Testing Frameworks.
• Hoppscotch or Postman experience for API testing.
• Experience in identifying test cases using boundary valuation analysis and negative testing.
• Payments network experience.
• Exposure to modern software testing practices.
• Experience in DevOps and build tools.
• 3+ years of hands-on Test Automation experience.

Salary (Rate): £600 per day

City: Hampshire

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

QA Lead - Finance/Payments/Contract

Lead QA working on an integral payment system for a major finance company within their payments team. Emphasis on API testing.

Role - QA Lead

Duration - 6 months with very likely extension

Rate - Negotiable

Location - Hybrid/Hampshire - 3 days per week in the office

Skills -

• Experience with Java, Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Gatling, Xray, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Pact Testing, API Testing Frameworks. AWS expertise preferred.
• Hoppscotch or Postman experience testing APIs
• Experience identifying test cases using boundary valuation analysis, negative testing, etc.
• Drives quality discussions around requirements in refinement
• Payments network experience
• Exposure to modern software testing practices including but not restricted to Test Automation, Test First, TDD, ATDD and BDD.
• Experience in DevOps (preferably working with containerized environments) and build tools using Jenkins CI/CD, Gradle, Github, Nexus and SonarQube and other code coverage tools preferred.
• Experience testing and implementing API service architecture with Spring Boot.
• 3+ years of Hands-on Test Automation required.

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