Lead Software Test Engineer

The Software Test Engineer is responsible for developing automated testing strategies and implementing them in industry standard testing frameworks. The Software Test Engineer provides testing automated testing expertise and oversight and also plays a role in providing advice and guidance and monitoring emerging technologies.
Works under broad direction. Work is often self-initiated. Is fully responsible for meeting allocated objectives. Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities.
Influences organization, customers, suppliers, partners and peers on the contribution of own specialism. Builds appropriate and effective business relationships. Makes decisions which impact the success of assigned work, i.e. results, deadlines and budget. Has significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments.
Performs an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities. Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts. Understands the relationship between own specialism and wider customer/organizational requirements.
Advises on the available standards, methods, tools and applications relevant to own specialism and can make appropriate choices from alternatives. Analyses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets. Assesses and evaluates risk. Communicates effectively, both formally and informally. Demonstrates leadership. Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives. Takes all requirements into account when making proposals. Takes initiative to keep skills up to date. Mentors colleagues. Maintains an awareness of developments in the industry. Analyses requirements and advises on scope and options for continuous operational improvement. Demonstrates creativity, innovation and ethical thinking in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder.
Agile Planning

• Understands the challenges that delivery and operations teams face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions.
• Recommends improvements to testing processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of testing teams and reduce technical debt.

Automation Development

• Owns the testing automation strategy, test data management strategy, and test automation framework architecture.
• Develops new or maintains existing test automation frameworks for all applications that automation currently supports.
• Writes, debugs and executes code used in automated testing efforts.
• Coordinates regression test automation activities across supported applications.
• Defines, implements, and manages processes and "best practices" with regard to automated testing.
• Establishes processes to continually review and select manual test cases for automation test suites.
• Provides metrics on business process and code coverage for automated test suites.
• Presents test results to stakeholders.
• Partners with feature developers and other automation engineers to build the tools and infrastructure to ensure production code is thoroughly tested to the highest standards.

Application Support

• Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.

Advice and Guidance

• Actively works with less experienced software test engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.

Emergency Technology Monitoring

• Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new testing technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.

Essential Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
• Working experience in software development and/or testing
• Working experience in automated testing frameworks
• Working experience with software test tools and processes, building and testing frameworks, and consumer-facing applications and databases
• Working experience with regulatory standards testing processes.
• Working experience of scripting and configuration tools
• Working knowledge of delivering products in an engineering, operations, or release role
• Working knowledge of development lifecycle methodologies (e.g. waterfall, agile, iterative)
• Working knowledge in analysis, design and programming

Key Responsibilities

• Writes, debugs and executes code used in performance testing efforts.
• Plans approach and test strategy for performance testing and benchmarking.
• Maintains existing scripts for the purpose of reusability and performance regression testing.
• Analyzes test results to identify issues, and works with architects and developers to suggest improvements and drive issues to resolution.
• Conducts performance tests, analyses and presents test results, metrics and drives issues to resolution.
• Builds repository of historical performance runs for the purpose of plotting trends over time.
• Evangelizes the benefits of performance testing; providing demos and industry presentations.

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