Description
Platform Test Lead
Our client, a global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Platform Test Lead to join their team in their clients' office in London. You can work remotely until Covid abates.
This is a 6 month temporary contract.
The right candidate should have hands-on experience on Automation/has led Automation team and experience of managing multiple teams (10+) with an overall size of 20+ across different locations.
Key Responsibilities:
- At a high level you will define the high level test scenarios and requirements and feed them into the teams for further elaboration
- Inspect the outputs of the teams and check they have been validated to a sufficient level
- Oversight of the Testing process across teams
- Identify and co-ordinate any outcomes or dependencies that stretch across one or more teams
- Ensure visibility, traceability, and overarching control of testing process
- Define the high-level conditions required for the system under tests - identify integration points and testing risk points that may stretch across the system and not be in scope of an individual outcome
- Evaluate the attributes or capability of the outcome
- Oversight of the quality, performance and reliability of the systems
- SME for team members
- Define the high level scope of testing of each release/delivery
- Determe and shape the allocation of resources for testing (eg Env's and Testing types)
- Ensure the appropriate test metrics are reported and in place for each of the teams
- Oversight of the planning, deployment and management of the testing effort
Key Skills/Knowledge:
- Experience working on Agile Methodology and has a strong understanding of the Processes
- Experience of managing multiple teams (10+) with an overall size of 20+ across different locations
- Hands on experience on Automation/has led Automation team
- Strong technical skills and should have worked on SQL/Unix
- Experience working on the Test Management Tools like ALM, and other Tools like Jira, Confluence
- Automation minded
- Heavy Agile klnowledge
- Inclined to Automation
- Technical background
- Lead/management experience
- Strong leadership qualities
- Capable of co-ordinating
- Good negotiation skills,
- Effective people management skills
- Client facing skills
- Strong in verbal and written communication skills