Principle QA Automation Lead

Our Client:

Our client specialize in mobile-centric university campus technology for integrated campus payments, campus ID, and campus commerce solutions.

As an industry leading software company, we are lucky to have deep support and experience in house with talented engineers, infrastructure experts and architects across the global family working as part of and alongside our teams. Together we invest in each other’s success . We have surfers, runners, chess players, snowboarders, dads, mums, married people, single people, hurlers, speakers, soccer fans, rugby fans, Belarusian folk dancers, yoga fans, book clubbers, seasoned travellers, Lego builders, animal lovers, cyclists, gardeners, gamers and tv show aficionados. We celebrate our differences.

Role:

• Possess the aptitude to quickly learn and contribute to our complex platform

• Work within a cross functional agile team

• Advocate for best practices and industry standards in Agile Testing & Automation across the entire SDLC and to mentor and guide team members on these

• Be an ambassador and guide of product quality in the team and evangelize quality standards and measures

• Collect quality metric data and communicate test status/risks to stakeholders

• Design, code and construct automation tests in existing or new automation frameworks

• Raise process improvement opportunities

• Has previous experience testing commercial software products through the entire life cycle

• Excellent knowledge of both manual and automated testing processes • Creation of Test Strategies, Implementing and following through to completion including both functional & non-functional aspects

• Strong Team Player

• Has experience using test automation frameworks (UI, API, Performance Automation)

• Has a track record of achieving goals, meeting deadlines, and working in a dynamic, fast paced environment with evolving requirements

• Is comfortable with complex software development platforms

• Can work both independently and within a team

• Demonstrates the ability to form and deliver specific recommendations based on test evidence

• Experience integrating test automation steps into CI/CD pipelines and orchestration tools

• Excellent communication and documentation skills who can summarize and relay all news to stakeholders

• Familiarity with Agile processes, specifically the Scrum framework and the role of Agile Testing within that framework is preferred

• Excellent troubleshooting skills

• Experience working with global teams is a plus