Functional Testing Lead (Java)

• Actively collaborating with developers and stakeholders to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability, consistency, and completeness
• Ensuring testing is done at the right levels - unit, integration, end-2-end, exploratory etc.
• Collaborating with the team, working in pairs with programmers and other team members
• Create test plans, develop automated tests, review test results and document findings 
• Configuring, using and managing test environments and test data
• Developing and maintaining the auto test frameworks to enable other team members to contribute automated tests
• Embracing different types of testing - exploratory, performance testing and automated testing
• Ensure focus on non-functional quality attributes in our software such as reliability, resiliency, performance, scalability, security etc.
• Detecting, isolating, debugging and resolving software issues through reviewing configuration files, logs or code
• Document software defects using Jira, reporting to software developers and ensuring they are resolved in a timely manner
• Investigate customer defects, validating fixes and ensuring lessons learned to drive continuous improvement in quality.
• Lead technical projects or sub projects managing risks, resource requirements and execution
• Explain and simplifies complex information to others; gathers and translates business requirements and anticipates obstacles to information flow.
• Have direct customer or other business stakeholder interaction, navigates key issues, constructively negotiates milestones and represents well the business.
• Championing testing best practices and coaching other team members in relevant aspects of testing
• Participating proactively in daily standup meetings, story grooming sessions, team retrospectives, suggesting and implementing improvements

• Min. 8 years experience of Java development 
• Min. 8 years formal testing and verification experience
• Experience with automation frameworks and tools
• Experience in non-functional / quality attribute verification:
  • Performance benchmarking (latency and throughput)
  • Resilience testing (chaos and fuzzing)
  • Scalability testing
• Knowledge of following are desirable:
  • Formal testing and verification methods
  • CI/CD (Github Actions, Jenkins)
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with Linux and Bash
  • Experience with Docker and Maven
  • Experience with Distributed Data Stores (MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop)
  • Experience with Messaging Systems (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar)
  • Experience of data storage testing including designing and manipulating test data
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study (Computer Science, or related discipline) or equivalent experience.

• You are hands on, solving complex software and feature problems
• You lead by example, influencing others through a continuous demonstration of a strong software development practice
• Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask lots of questions, overcome biases, break assumptions and consider different perspectives
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy
• Able to effectively negotiate priorities crossing multiple teams across the business
• Able to collaborate with other areas of the business to solve problems.
• Bring strong technical leadership to the group
• Able to explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus internally and with the wider business.
• You quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and testing methodologies
• Able to plan and organise your own work

• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays
• Group Company Pension Plan
• Private Medical Insurance
• Private Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

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