Test Lead Altrincham, England
Job description
An outstanding opportunity for a talented and highly motivated individual to join an award-winning UK consultancy and to help shape our growth globally.
Informed Solutions is a multi-award winning Digital, IT and Management Consultancy practice based in the UK and Australia – clients appoint us as professional problem solvers to help them deliver major cutting edge projects. We are people who like making a real contribution and difference in our professional lives, and aren’t scared of a challenge or managing uncertainty. Informed’s corporate values of “Innovation, Excellence, Integrity” are at the core of everything we stand for and deliver.
Our people are effective communicators who play an active role in teams and are excited by shaping ideas and delivering complex solutions working with others. We are grounded and responsible professionals who understand that leading edge, fast-paced projects require sustained commitment and energy, and that achievement can be demanding as well as highly rewarding.
Position:
We are seeking a Test Lead or Test Manager to join our project teams to further enhance the solutions we provide to a wide range of clients.
Essential skills and experience
- Experience of testing high availability/transaction cloud based enterprise solutions built on AWS.
- Experience of supervising, supporting and assuring the work of test teams made up of 3 to 5 Testers.
- Experience of working with clients to jointly defined, execute and manage test strategies and plans for:
- Accessibility Testing
- Security (Penetration) Testing
- Performance, Integration and User Acceptance Testing
- Operational Acceptance Testing, Business Readiness Testing
Requirements:
- Experience of working in an agile and Continuous Integration based environment (Scrum, Jira, Confluence).
- Experience of some or all of the following testing tools and technologies:
- Selenium, JMeter, BlazeMeter, BrowserStack
- Cucumber/Gherkin
- WAVE
- OWASP ZAP / Dependency Check
- SonarQube
- A clear communicator, calm, can-do, resilient, comfortable being challenged and unfazed by complexity.
Desirable skills and experience
- Experience of working in a professional services/consultancy environment preferred.
- Experience of working within teams made up of onshore and near-shore (Poland) personnel.
Experience of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice preferred
