QA Team Lead

4 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Xplor Full time

Company Description

At Xplor, we help businesses thrive by making life simple for daily activities with a recurring nature. We do that by offering smart software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions across five “everyday life” verticals: Education, Health and Fitness, Boutique Wellness, Field Services and Personal Services.

Join our Xplor Pay team as a QA Team Lead for an exciting journey in the world of payments.

Xplor Pay is a credit card processing company that has innovation at it's core. Xplor Pay provides payment technology including a payment engine, payment gateway and an online reporting tool.

Applicants will ideally be based remote from anywhere in UK and have full working rights too

**Job Description**:
Position Description

QA Team Lead

**Company **Xplor Technologies

**Location** Remote (Head Office - Newcastle)

**Reports to** VP of QA Engineering

**Staff reporting to role **Scrum Team QA’s

Xplor Technologies is a dynamic, fast paced, global company. Our business Empowers Passionate People across the Health and Fitness, Childcare and Boutique Fitness sectors, by enabling our clients to focus on doing what they do best - engaging with members and growing their business. Our people act as extensions of our clients’ teams, with a comprehensive suite of technology, payments capabilities and value-added services like member retention and customer service activities.

We are looking for a QA Lead to join our development team in the UK Payments group. The role will focus, initially, on supporting a transition from various legacy platforms to a new global payments platform being built from the ground up by highly skilled development teams across the world. Once the transition to the new platform is complete, the QA Lead will oversee all areas of testing for the UK QA team. You will be responsible for ensuring UK testing aligns with the Xplor global QA framework and that appropriate testing of features has been carried out.

This is a hands on role, you’ll be expected to be actively testing and developing automated tests where appropriate.

Xplor UKs head office is in Newcastle but our development team is fully remote; occasional travel may be required for team meetings.

**Purpose of Position**
- **
People Leadership - **Provide leadership, guidance, and motivation, assisting with training and development. Collaborating with the line manager for annual performance reviews.
- ** Test Leadership - **Working along with the VP of QA Engineering in running the QA practice and executing the QA strategy at Debitsuccess.
- ** Software Testing - **Perform hands-on testing within the Scrum team

**Key Accountabilities and Performance Metrics**

**People Leadership**

**Accountability and Expected Target**
- Create and maintain a culture of innovation where new ideas are encouraged and there is an openness to failure, taking on an iterative approach to success
- Establish and maintain a culture of continuous learning
- Be an advocate for knowledge sharing within the test teams
- Encourage testers to attend and to present at lunch and learn sessions
- Support team members in their career aspirations through development of a career plan with specific goals, and work towards providing opportunities that would help achieve the set goals
- Identify and guide the QA team members with appropriate training courses
- Coach and mentor QA team members to grow professionally
- Strive to keep the QA team members passionate about software testing, through attending courses, meetups and conferences and regular knowledge sharing sessions
- Undertake training of new QA team members in areas of expertise if required
- Assist QA manager in hiring activities such as shortlisting CV’s and conducting interviews
- Undertake one on ones with the team members, and performance reviews
- Act as an escalation point for unresolved or escalated issues, ensuring swift resolution
- Determine effective team utilisation through proactive capacity forecasting and planning to optimise the use of resource capacity and capability across the team.
- Managing the onboarding/roll-off activities for QA resources who join or leave the team

**Test Leadership**

**Accountability and Expected Target**
- Govern test process within the Scrum teams
- Assist testers in test planning
- Advocate for appropriate level of automation checking with the Scrum teams
- Plan for test teams and environments to have the right tools (manual and / or automated) in place enabling ability to deliver consistent and quality output
- Identify QA resource needs within the Scrum teams
- Liaise with Automation core team regarding automation progress in the Scrum teams, framework enhancements, coaching, process and workshops
- Support other test team members and associated IT and Business resources as appropriate to the implementation of testing related activities.

**Software Testing**

**Accountability and Expected Target**
- Review requirements, specifi

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