Automation Test Lead

Urgently seeking a Automation Test Lead
Initial 3 month contract and the position will require 2/3 days per week on site in London.

Skills and requirements:

• 10-12 years of experience in Testing
• Ability to strategize E2E automation testing
• Hands on experience in Automation (Playwright, Selenium C#/Python) is mandatory
• Experienced in Azure Dev Ops and setting up Test Management Tools related to requirements traceability, test plans, test labs, and defects management.
• Experienced in various types of testing – support for Unit, Smoke/Sanity, Functional, System, SIT, Integration, regression, support UAT etc
• Advise on implementation of automated testing to ensure clean and scalable framework design which can be applied in a generic way across multiple projects and streams.
• Troubleshoot issues with team members implementing test frameworks and guide with a 'hands on' approach where necessary
• Should be willing to do hands-on testing as and when required
• Ensuring Test Delivery Assurance complies with the clients standard tools and framework.
• Working closely with Product Managers, developers, business analysts, designers and testers to understand requirements and translate to effective test frameworks.
• Effectively coach team members to build understanding of test strategy and create automated and manual test frameworks to support testing best practice.
• High level of familiarity with testing at strategy level and able to provide advice rooted in theory and experience with respect to Functional, Regression, Interface testing and support for UAT
• Ability to automate tests throughout the entire lifecycle of the product and data flows, from ingestion through to the presentation layer.
• Ability to plan and strategize testing for complex systems. This Involves planning scope of testing, Release/Sprint planning, resource planning, overall planning for E2E testing activities
• Ability to advise on implementation of automated testing to ensure clean and scalable framework design which can be applied in a generic way across multiple projects and streams.
• Capable of designing and execution of detailed functional test cases for complex requirements
• Proactive and Organized, Capable of working in an ambiguous/uncertain environment, understanding risks & flagging it on time. Ability to mitigate risks and ensuring quality deliverables adhering to timelines.
• Excellent Communication, Coordination skills and Stakeholder management
• Highly experienced in Agile ways of working

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.