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The QA Engineering Specialist 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.

They manage the day to day test activities, optimising quality, coverage, velocity and enhancement of tests in the context of the unit test strategy. Driving the power of innovations in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, RPA, & Machine learning to provide transformative outcome for Openreach QA & Test

They are responsible for managing the effective test intelligence aspects of the Test Strategy. This will involve direct management of the Partners. Test Manager will need to manage both operational aspects of the Test Strategy & Intelligence of Quality Assurance. The manager will be responsible for the Test Scope and also for ensuring that this scope is tested in an optimal way within the delivery timescales. This role is a pivotal role between Test and delivery teams, and this person shall have thorough product knowledge and good stakeholder engagement. The role holder will also manage test transformation for the test intelligence area, and needs to conversant with test industry trends, industry knowledge, and always assessing the effectiveness of the QA & Testing and looking for continual improvement on how deliver high quality testing.

1. Leads and executes product quality strategies for BT's service offerings and products, designing test strategies for business-critical initiatives and development
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Leads the full lifecycle integration testing to support complex projects to define and drive the deliverables required
6. 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
7. Contributes to the design and development of test automation solutions that validate the functionality of applications
8. 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
9. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in QA engineering best practices and industry standards
10. Mentors other QA engineers, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource

Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.