QA Lead

QA Lead
6-12 month contract
Hybrid Dublin - some travel to Milan
Day rate 400 per day

Must have Fluent Italian

Overview

You will have responsibility of leading test consultants through the process of reviewing and implementing new methodologies & tools throughout the client project. In addition, you will provide mentoring, guidance and direction to other team members, as well as ensuring the quality of the team's output is of a consistently high standard. You will be part of a high performance team and will have the opportunity to excel and grow your career delivering quality at a fast pace.

Responsibilities

• Direct a QA team, and gather information from business stakeholders to verify and prioritise a set of business requirements
• Prepare, execute and document test cases based on Business & Functional Requirements to ensure thorough testing of requirements in a fast paced environment
• Work with clients to understand existing or new processes and systems in order to provide high quality advice and deliverables
• Work attentively with the testing services (functional, automated and performance) to deliver a seamless overall quality service
• Work closely with the clients' Technical Architects and Developers and be able to 'translate' the business requirements to functional requirements for these teams
• Ensure that the scope of a design iteration doesn't vary unless authorised by the Business Stakeholders
• Report issues to management where these could have an impact on a major deadline
• Mentor less experienced analysts and motivate others to provide innovative solutions for team improvement
• Review test cases written by peers to ensure that all requirements are covered in test case documentation
• Re-test bugs to confirm that they have been corrected
• Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff
• Bring a quality focus to product releases
• Have a customer mind-set and eye for detail with applications under test

Qualifications

• A degree-level qualification in a Computer Science discipline
• ISTQB certification
• Non-functional testing
• Experience within telecommunications or finance industries advantageous

Essential skills

• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management - continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set
• Have an innovative approach - a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency
• Ability to influence Stakeholders
• Excellent time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines

Experience

• Experience in API Testing (SoapUI, Ready API, Postman etc.)
• Experience in test automation Scripting (Selenium, Playwright, Python etc.)
• Demonstrable experience in a Test lead position as well as 3 years' experience testing across a variety of environments and industries
• Scoping and creating functional and non-functional test plans and test data, maintaining the integrity of the test environment
• Test estimation and test planning experience essential
• Quality focused with attention to detail