SDET Lead

Summary: The SDET Lead role requires a seasoned professional with over 12 years of experience in QA leadership, focusing on end-to-end testing deliverables and team management. The position emphasizes automation, particularly with Selenium C# and BDD frameworks, while ensuring high-quality outputs across multiple programs. The lead will also mentor junior team members and innovate testing processes to enhance QA efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for End to End testing deliverables in a portfolio and demand management, by bringing in capable candidates to the team and ensuring End to End delivery for each of the programs has top quality deliverables.
• Maintain Business Continuity.
• Manage a small team of 10-12 members, their goals, appraisals and the development plans supporting their aspirations. Demonstrate Automation experience, ability to manage and deliver top quality testing for medium to large programs.
• Take a leadership position in automation, working with Architects and Scrum team members to clarify requirements, ensure testability and the ability to automate.
• Provide feedback on design, both functional and technical. Innovate on latest tools and processes to improve QA functional, manual and Automation testing.
• Document best practices and mentor junior team members. Work on frameworks to ensure continuous deployment and continuous integration. Develop new proofs-of-concepts for QA Automation, ensuring continual improvements.
• The role has frequent exposure to and interaction with senior levels of business leadership.
• Works independently under minimal managerial supervision.
• Delivers the work as assigned, applying the work procedures, frameworks.
• Guidance provided for those tasks where there are limited precedents available.
• Define roadmap for the CC in collaboration with Portfolio/IT managers and drive alignment across all stakeholders.

Key Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 12+ years of experience as QA lead.
• Agile testing & test automation (accelerators tools).
• Selenium C# with BDD framework using Specflow.
• API Automation.
• Implementation of Selenium Grid.
• Ability to apply appropriate test measurements & metrics.
• Leadership and team management skills.
• Experience in mentoring and developing junior team members.
• Strong communication skills for interaction with senior business leadership.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Mandatory skills:
Bachelor's Degree in computer science/equivalent and 12+ years of experience as QA lead. Agile testing & test automation (accelerators tools).
Selenium C# with BDD framework using Specflow, API Automation. Implementation of selenium Grid. Applying appropriate test measurements & metrics.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for End to End testing deliverables in a portfolio and demand management, by bringing in capable candidates to the team and ensuring End to End delivery for each of the programs has top quality deliverables.
• Maintain Business Continuity.
• Manage a small team of 10-12 members, their goals, appraisals and the development plans supporting their aspirations. Demonstrate Automation experience, ability to manage and deliver top quality testing for medium to large programs.
• Take a leadership position in automation, working with Architects and Scrum team members to clarify requirements, ensure testability and the ability to automate.
• Provide feedback on design, both functional and technical. Innovate on latest tools and processes to improve QA functional, manual and Automation testing.
• Document best practices and mentor junior team members. Work on frameworks to ensure continuous deploym ent and continuous integration. Develop new proofs-of-concepts for QA Automation, ensuring continual improvements.
• The role has frequent exposure to and interaction with senior levels of business leadership.
• Works independently under minimal managerial supervision.
• Delivers the work as assigned, applying the work procedures, frameworks.
• Guidance provided for those tasks where there are limited precedents available.
• Define roadmap for the CC in collaboration with Portfolio/IT managers and drive alignment across all stakeholders,