Test Lead

About Us

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants’ expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Lead/Senior Quality Engineer able to assist with leading projects with our government clients. You will have the opportunity to shape how Quality evolves over an exciting period for the technology team and business overall.

You will ideally have a strong understanding of automated testing, be able to apply this both in a hands-on approach coupled with experience in strong leadership with teams of test engineers at all levels.

Key Responsibilities

You'll be required to support the Quality Engineering practice in day-to-day operations as well as to define and implement test strategies, review existing test strategies, and ascertain areas for improvement.

You will be a leader within the business playing a key role in architecting the businesses approach to Quality Engineering.

You'll be working within a significant area of IT delivery, and you will have an opportunity to promote quality outcomes and value across Solirius and our clients.

You'll have strong delivery management and leadership skills with a focus on helping Solirius to deliver high quality outcomes at pace.

As a QA Lead you'll be critical to overseeing multiple complex project teams to provide technical leadership on improving the way things are done, providing advice and direction to team members and stakeholders.

You will work closely with senior delivery partners with a variety of and critical applications with large user bases. You will promote quality outcomes and values across Solirius and our clients.

Key Skills and Experience

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop highly effective working relationships with colleagues, IT suppliers and business stakeholders.
• Experience developing the quality strategy across the business, evaluating what the current practices look like and identify areas for improvement.
• Working closely with business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QA approach.
• Proven experience of defining and implementing test improvement strategies.
• Experience in hiring, coaching, and mentoring high performing teams of SDET and Test engineers.
• Deep Agile experience with CI/CD and shift left development practices
• Solid testing background and experienced with Automation at a hands-on level
• Experience with Delivery and Technologies ideally across the Government domain
• Ability to manage multiple resources and allocate workload across varying teams and projects in parallel
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing objectives works well under pressure
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Be an advocate of Quality Engineering, Continuous Improvement and industry recognised best practices
• Project management experience and the ability to lead teams from pre day 1 strategies to project completion

Technical skills

• Experience of working with a range of automation tools and frameworks
• Experience with API testing, ideally using RestAssured
• Can work with development teams to ascertain best practices for unit and other developer testing
• Testing Frameworks - Knowledge of Test Libraries for Acceptance and End To End Testing.
• Build Automation Tools - Familiarity with open source build automation tools.
• CI/CD Tools and Pipeline - Knowledge of at-least one build tool eg Jenkins CI.

To be considered for this role you will have:

• Proven experience of strong stakeholder management in prominent high paced environments.
• Previously held a similar role in another organisation.
• Proven experience of improving processes, setting strategy, delivering improvements, maintaining a quality service, and driving change.
• Proven experience of driving an automation and shift left strategy.
• Knowledge of modern technologies and processes such as SecDevOps.
• Strong proven experience in building and maintaining strong working relationships and leading collaboration with clients.

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
• Flexible working / Work from home
• Private Healthcare
• Generous annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• 10 days allocated development training per year
• Contributory pension
• Gym membership
• Annual away days and social events

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.