QA Specialist/Lead

Telford

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Role Title: QA Specialist/Lead
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Telford (2/3 Days Per Week)
Rate: £490 Per Day- Umbrella only

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose / summary

The Project QA Lead role will have experience in delivering technical leadership and test management within the target tech stack and have an understanding of modern quality engineering principle across the delivery lifecycle.
The tech stack we are working in for Modernisation.

Built on HCP using Kubernetes.
HCP is currently built on AWS but eventually will have an Azure option (date tbc).
Monitoring is currently Kibana, Grafana, Splunk, Pager-duty with looks to go to Dynatrace when that solution is available.
CI/CD through Gitlab pipelines
Databases are Oracle RDS, SQL and Mongo
Java 21 with Springboot / batch
Testing frameworks and automation tooling including Playwright, Wiremock, OWASP Zap (SAST, DAST, SCA), Gatling
Responsibilities

The Modernisation Project QA Lead will:

Work with Programme QA Lead to implement the QA principles for Modernisation within their work stream
Work with clients and key project stakeholders to establish automation patterns and repeatable test approaches in line with Programme requirements
Direct and coordinate Delivery teams to adopt the QA Strategy
Assure the quality of the test implementation across the services
Manage the QA activities into the delivery teams to ensure visible adherence to strategy
Produce test deliverables that sit under the strategy document (individual approach and completion documents)
Project level test planning and review (working with individual teams)
Risk Mitigation and Management
Reporting on progress against QA milestones and adherence to strategy
Hands-on support for QA within delivery teams
Supporting the Programme QA Lead, working as a team with the other Service QA Lead and the Automation Lead.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply

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