QA Lead Bristol, England
BT Group
Full Time
Bristol, England
50668 - 63668 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Closing date for applications
06.10.2023
For this role, you will need to be eligible for Security Clearance
Locations: Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds
Why this job matters
This role independently executes a range of critical testing activities for a portfolio of products and services, driving best practice standards for test quality, resource planning and issue resolution, in alignment to business strategy and requirements.
Within this team, the holder manages other quality assurance engineers and work closely with software engineers to deliver compelling applications; test functionality and validate integration with backend systems and APIs; and contributing to the team’s learning strategy for quality assurance.
The role is key to providing outstanding service to our customers by maintaining and improving the products we supply them with.
What you’ll be doing
- Leads and executes product quality strategies for BT’s service offerings and products, designing test strategies for business-critical initiatives and development
- Executes a range of testing activities inclusive of test case creation, diagnostics and test data strategy for a portfolio, and is accountable for first/second level diagnostics enabling test delivery to time, cost, quality across multiple workstreams
- Drives assessments of the portfolio's success against test plans and the development of processes and approaches to ensure quality standards of products and services, ensuring testing procedures are compliant with any required industry specific standards
- Contributes to establishing priorities for the portfolio, including directing service-in-take, expectations on delivery timing and interdependencies, determining resource requirements and monitoring the supplier test delivery outcomes
- Leads the full lifecycle integration testing to support complex projects to define and drive the deliverables required
- Leverages service virtualisation, using simulated services instead of actual production services to test systems while still in the pipeline, wherever a 3rd party service is unavailable
- Contributes to the design and development of test automation solutions that validate the functionality of applications
- Delivers complex analysis to understand the impacts and causes of defects and issues, driving the team of QA analysts to investigate, identify and define advanced solutions
- Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in QA engineering best practices and industry standards
- Mentors other QA engineers, helping to improve the team’s abilities by acting as a technical resource
Skills and Experiences
- Security Clearance or the eligibility to be Security Cleared to SC level.
- Software Testing (preferably API, UI, and Database)
- Test Case Design/Writing
- Have worked within agile environments
- Test Management
Beneficial Skills and Experiences
- Experience leading a small QA team
- Automation testing frameworks knowledge
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 10% on target bonus
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme
- Direct share scheme
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
- BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
- 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
BT Group
www.bt.com/careers
London, United Kingdom
Philip Jansen
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Telecommunications Services
1846
