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Test Manager Birmingham, England

BT Group

Full Time Birmingham, England 45564 - 48676 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Test Manager

Job Req ID: 11024

Posting Date: 07-Feb-2023

Function: Software Engineering

Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive with Benefits

About BT Digital:

There’s never been a more exciting time to join the Consumer Digital Team. We’re investing hundreds of millions of pounds into digital and transforming the way we work to create, not just the best digital experience in the telco market, but something that customers talk about as the best in the UK.

We believe in empowering our digital superheroes to work autonomously as teams, and to rapidly learn and develop the best routes and techniques to creating customer value. We’re founded on the core idea that we continuously ‘build, measure, and learn’ which allows us to deliver on our purpose: to drive digital thinking and expertise so that together we can create the best experiences that enhance our customers’ lives.

We’ve got something really special here, something we’re all incredibly proud to be part of. Every day we have the chance to positively impact the lives of the millions of customers that engage with us. To bring them close to the things that matter most to them. This is your chance to join us on our ground breaking journey.

About the Role:

In this job, the role of the test manager is to lead and guide the testing team efficiently. You will be responsible for leading the test methodology and the individuals responsible for quality assurance of BT/EE platform solutions. You’ll provide technical leadership and strategic direction for all QA engineers within Web, resolving the test project issues, and ensuring effective test process improvement feedback.

You’ll be critical in ensuring that test architecture and test plans are up to date relative to changes in the Digital landscape. You’ll confidently lead and share knowledge with a team of engineers. You’ll be involved in planning and monitoring the execution of automation tests in CI/CD environment. You’ll define the automation first approach within development sprints, identify issues with the manual activities whilst using your own initiative to find the right solution for any faults found in dev, test, and production. Excellent communication skills are required as you will be liaising with wider engineering teams including operations and product teams. You will also be responsible for implementing latest technology, in line with our continuous integration and delivery goals. Working collaboratively across both QA and Engineering to achieve testability, maintainability, and scalability of our software products, providing technical guidance, and coaching throughout.

Responsibilities:

Define the test automation driven QA approach and methodology for BT/EE platform solutions
Be Agile, Test Driven and a highly technical tester.
Steering the direction of the automation test framework
You will work directly with Technical Architects and define automation approach, write test plans but can still deliver hands on technically. Whether that be API testing or building test frameworks from scratch.
Analyse competitive products and technologies with appropriate suggestions to influence product / technology direction.
Collaborate with test and development engineers on application & testing architecture, to ensure that the approaches and technologies applied to the current implementation are sound and fit for purpose.
Coordinating the tasks within sprints and looking at ways to automate manual activities within software delivery process.
Design / architect and implement regular robust full build / deploy / test automation process across our digital platforms along with sub system integrations
Coordinating test automation activities within projects, including planning and delivering the test phases on time and within budget while meeting all quality objectives.
Understanding of programming principles and best practice (e.g. DRY, SOLID for creating re-usable code, best practice etc)
Own the end to end code quality and code performance KPI’s
Proactive monitoring of Production estate code.

Skills:

Automation testing experience (Minimum 5 years)
Worked with Service Virtualisation of Enterprise level API driven front and backend systems
Expertise in testing methodologies, test techniques and agile QA practices
Good communication skills of test status across engineering team and stakeholders
Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, React, NodeJS, Spock, GEB, Selenium and mobile technologies
Expertise with automated testing tools (such as Applitools, Cypress.io, TestCafe, Selenium, Karma, Saucelabs / Browserstack)
Background in DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, PAAS, Monitoring / Log aggregation
Line Management of squads various QA team members
Experience of integrating test scripts into Continuous Integration Pipelines
Working knowledge of JIRA / Confluence
Understanding of complex Headless / Serverless front end testing requirements

Benefits:

Discounted BT Broadband, TV & mobile packages and BT products
On target Bonus
Share options and 10% pension contribution
Professional development and paid for industry certifications/qualifications
Flexible benefits/rewards including dental insurance, healthcare, gym memberships etc.
Well-being support for you and your family
3 days paid volunteering a year
Flexible and smart working (subject to business needs)