Senior Test Engineer

6 Months

£500 - £600/Day Inside IR35

Birmingham/ Blackpool/Sheffield/Leeds/Newcastle

Clearance: SC

We are seeking a Senior Test Engineer our Government client which can be based in Birmingham, Blackpool, Sheffield, Leeds or Newcastle. This role will be office based 60% and remote 40%.

The Senior Test Engineer role will be an initial 6 month contract paying between £500 - £600/Day Inside IR35.

This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.

Clearance: SC

Role Profile:

• Informatica Power Centre and Oracle experience as essentials
  * AWS , automation testing, SQL, experience in data environment (working on large data sets) desirable
• As a Senior Test Engineer you will define the overall testing strategy, provide technical leadership and guidance to test engineering teams, and have oversight of all testing activities. You will ensure that best practices are in place, and drive improvements by sharing knowledge and resources across teams.
• Set the strategic direction for product teams and the Test Engineering community.
• Lead multiple Test Engineering teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Lead delivery of testing activities, ensuring that quality, time and cost objectives are met.
• Act as an escalation point for defects or issues preventing delivery of Test Engineering activities.
• Define the approach for test infrastructure setup and use outputs to drive technical improvements.
• Identify appropriate required technical test tools.
• Monitor performance of the test suite and identify how this can be improved by reducing technical debt.
• Drive standardisation by sharing reusable libraries and services, experience, and lessons learned with other teams.
• Drive collaboration by aligning what teams are working on and highlighting the key dependencies, impacts and priorities.
• Develop appropriate test approaches and reporting mechanisms to be agreed with senior stakeholders
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development of citizen services.
• .Able to think outside the box, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to a larger team.

Leads investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes, driving the collection of information and creation of recommendations for improvements. Can absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.

• Manages planning of system and / or acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications. Able to provide

authoritative advice and guidance on test planning and can identify the process improvements and contribute to definition of best practice.

• Able to design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques and communicate non-functional test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Able to make decisions on running types of non-functional testing. Able to coach and mentor others. Able to raise defects with the business and help prioritise them based on defect severity.

If you are interested in the above, hit the Apply now button!

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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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