Software Testing Team Lead
Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, England
Permanent
£40,000 – 45,000
Manual Testing, Web, Mobile, Desktop, SQL, API, Functional, Jira, SDLC
Responsibilities
As a Team Lead you will be assisting in driving the provision of a capable, reactive, motivated delivery focused testing team. You will be liaising with Product Managers, Development Managers and Development Team Leads across a suite of products and applications including our global website and mobile platform. A flexible, proactive and hands-off approach is required in this fast paced, high output department. The day to day work is interesting, challenging and fast paced amidst a hardworking and delivery focused company ethos.
Main Responsibilities:
- Planning, organising and reporting on testing phase of projects and support packages effectively communicating and escalating where appropriate.
- Reviewing and analysing requirement documents ensuring business and technical requirements are fully understood to a detailed level.
- Taking ownership of work estimation, ensuring accurate portrayals of effort can be obtained and subsequently delivered on.
- Applying active governance around quality, rules, standards and processes within the team.
- Ensuring regulatory and PCI standards are adhered to across the testing phase.
- Understanding the efforts on both resource and time and assess impacts and risks in delivery of the work stacks within the team.
- Actively communicating both within the team and outside the team, attending and contributing to various interdepartmental meetings.
- Facilitating successful relationships within the development teams and at times the operational functions.
- Mentoring and coaching other team members to assist with their development, assisting in appraisal reviews and administration responsibilities of the team.
Required Skills and Experiance
- Strong team and project lead experience and a strong background in software testing
- Commercial experience of leading large and diverse testing teams and project
- Experience of testing large scale websites
- Excellent understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple streams of activity shifting focus regularly
- Ability to think in a high-pressure environment and react quickly to challenging situations
- Proven experience of working with daily releases and high output of development work
- Ability to react well to changing requirements with a positive attitude
- Commitment to quality and thorough approach to work
Manual Testing, Web, Mobile, Desktop, SQL, API, Functional, Jira, SDLC