QA Automation Lead

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Travel Counsellors Full time

About Us

At Travel Counsellors, we're passionate about delivering exceptional travel experiences for our customers. As a leading travel marketplace, we empower over 2,000 global independent travel agents to run successful leisure and corporate travel businesses. Our unique approach has earned us numerous awards and accolades, including being named as The Best Place to Work in Travel at the 2022 TTG Travel Industry Awards.

We're currently expanding at a phenomenal rate, driven by our record year in terms of revenue (over £930m). To support this growth, we're seeking an experienced QA Automation Lead to join our dynamic technology team in Manchester, UK.

Role Overview

The QA Automation Lead will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of quality and performance in our technology products. Working across all engineering squads within one of our product streams, you'll guide QA Automation Engineers on design and implementation of tests, focusing on automation, and elevate our overall test and automation strategy.

Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee all product stream/domain testing activities during the product development lifecycle, including functional, regression, performance, and security testing
  • Contribute to strategic QA direction at Travel Counsellors
  • Track and report on test coverage, defect statuses, and other key quality metrics
  • Lead & mentor QA Automation Engineers, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement
  • Collaborate with product owners, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and define test strategies
  • Design, develop, and execute automated test scripts using common testing frameworks and tools – Selenium, SpecFlow, Pact, Gatling etc
  • Implement and maintain automated test suites for functional testing, regression testing, and performance testing
  • Identify, document, and track software defects and work closely with development teams to resolve them
  • Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and release management activities to ensure high-quality software releases

Requirements

  • Experience writing automated, browser-based, end-to-end functional tests using the Selenium WebDriver, preferably with C# (APIs, as opposed to record/playback IDE)
  • Hands on experience in API testing (Postman, BDD using SpecFlow preferred and contract testing e.g using Pact)
  • Capability to cross test on various devices including laptops and mobile devices
  • Experience in Test Plan preparation, estimation, and status reporting
  • Experience writing performance tests identifying areas of improvement across a platform
  • Proficiency in Git for version control
  • Experience in Manual testing (UAT/System/Regression)
  • Good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD & Blue Green Deployments
  • Experience with Dev/QA collaboration to derive Test Cases/ Scenarios
  • Working knowledge of testing microservices and the different types needed including unit, integration, contract, load, stress, security, resiliency testing
  • You will work well under pressure, alongside colleagues to support the business community
  • Working knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS)

Our Benefits

We value the hard work and effort that our colleagues put in. As a result, you can expect a wide range of employee benefits, including:

  • A competitive basic salary + annual company bonus
  • Flexible hybrid working model (2 days home, 3 days office)
  • Career development and promotional opportunities
  • 25 days holidays (increasing to 28 after 5 years of service)
  • A Moments That Matter day (annually)
  • Enhanced Maternity / Paternity pay
  • Holiday buy and sell (up to 5 days per year)
  • 3 paid days charity leave
  • Company events, socials, and incentives
  • 3x annual salary death in service benefit
  • Company Pension scheme
  • Costco Membership
  • Salary sacrifice, company car scheme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Free breakfast, fruit, and hot/cold beverages
  • Referral scheme
  • Employee discount
  • Private Medical Insurance (taxable benefit) or Healthcare Cash Plan (costs incurred by employees)

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