Lead Test Engineer Birmingham, England
Job description
Lead Test Engineer
Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits
Where the job is based: home-based, working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ
Who we are:
Kerv Digital (previously known as cloudThing) solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore.
Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our teams to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more. We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our teams are never bored.
We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking, highly skilled and experienced individuals.
Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way.
Who we are looking for:
· An experienced Lead Test Engineer, who takes responsibility for all test phases from setup to completion
· Acts as the key point of contact for all QA aspects
· Coordinates and supports onshore and offshore QA resources
· Defines quality metrics, and implements measurements to determine test effectiveness, testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the application under test
· Takes ownership of the creation, maintenance and execution of manual and automation regression and smoke tests suites
· Uses their experience to confidently determine suitable test coverage based on risk
· Identifies and manages risks – and developing plans to mitigate risks proportionally
· Promotes best practice with respect to testing, assurance and governance within projects.
· Any other tasks reasonably requested
Skills & Experience:
Candidates are expected to have all the following skills;
· Experience in leading functional, non-functional, manual and automated test phases on a project
· A hands-on tester, with a strategic outlook
· Supporting clients through UAT phases
· Strong stakeholder management skills
· Defining and implementing effective test strategies
· Identifying gaps, and driving out best practise
· Training and mentoring team members
· Continually improve the testing infrastructure, tools, and processes
· Leading and mentoring small teams of test engineers
Personal attributes
· Strong client engagement and stakeholder management skills
· Is able to push back where required, whilst providing a solid metrics-based rationale
· Effective line management and coaching skills
· A champion for quality, and an eye for detail
Professional attributes
· ISTQB Foundation/Intermediate or similar
What we can do for you:
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:
· Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
· Awesome Environment – all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on – that’s in large part because we’re privately owned by those that work day-to-day in the business, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
· Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
· Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
· Recognition & Growth – Certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India and we’ve just entered the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, which charts the top 100 fastest growing tech. companies in the country; we know we achieved this directly through the people we choose to work with.
Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews
More on equality:
At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.
*Please note: By submitting an application you agree to Kerv Digital’s recruitment policy*
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £55,000.00-£58,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birmingham
Reference ID: Lead Test Engineer
