QA Lead 12 Month FTC

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QA Lead Engineer - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hybrid Swindon or London

As a Lead QA Engineer at PayTech reporting to the Head of Engineering you will be responsible for leading a number of QA Engineers across several scrum teams ensuring that the depth and breadth of our testing delivers high quality software to our customers. You will work alongside Development Leads to define and deliver automated test suites allowing for rapid and repeatable testing of services.

You will be an active member of the Quality Assurance Centre of Excellence alongside other QA Leads defining and implementing improvements to our ways of working tooling and best practices striving to continually improve and innovate.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan implement and monitor effective test creation & execution across the scrum teams

• Contribute and support the effective handover to release engineers supporting and resolving regression issues

• Contribute to our methods and techniques that ensure the quality of development

• Drive improvements to quality assurance through the use of metrics and active CoE participation

• Uphold adherence to standards and best practices

• Line management of permanent QAs within the teams (c.6 in total)

• Support and mentor line reports in developing their skills and experience spread knowledge across teams

• Work as one team collaborate closely with Development Leads Product team and wider QA teams

• Take responsibility for the effective resolution of issues as they arise and drive remediation thereof

Technical Skills

• Significant commercial experience of testing API-based systems within a microservice or monolithic environment

• Demonstrable experience of TDD and BDD tools and techniques including test automation

• Significant experience of creating test plans approaches and risk-based testing

• Data creation and curation

• ISTQB Foundation (minimum)

Experience or some knowledge of the following would be beneficial:

• Prior line management experience

• Java

• SQL API and web services (REST) SOAP AWS services XML/JSON

• Tools: Postman Cucumber

Why PayTech

We are a subsidiary of the Edenred group and leaders in prepaid solutions including banking virtual cards debit credit and prepaid processing.

As a PayTech employee you will get the support and structure that you need to enjoy your work and develop your career while doing what you love and making a difference in a fast-paced and innovative business.

What you will get:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

• Hybrid working environment with a 3 days per week in the office

• Income protection

• Life insurance (4x salary)

• Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program (extended access to family members)

• Employee discount shopping platform

• Digital learning platform

• Complimentary fruit and other in office snacks & refreshments

• Volunteering programme

• Social events

• Pension Scheme employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%

• Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance

• Holiday trading scheme (buy or sell up to 5 days)

• Medical & international travel cover (leisure and action sports)

• Monthly gym allowance

• Employee referral bonus scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Cycle to Work scheme

Diversity:

Edenred UK and PayTech are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on age race colour creed religion sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression national origin citizenship marital status or civil partnership/union status disability pregnancy genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws.

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