Test Lead

15 hours ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Square One Resources Full time
Job Description

Job Title : Test Lead
Location: Birmingham
Salary/Rate : £45K - £48K plus 5%-7% bonus performance dependent
Start Date : 03/02/2025
Job Type : Permanent
As a Test Lead, you will take responsibility for leading all tasks for a testing workstream, ensuring that the testing conducted fulfils business requirements. You will do this by liaising with the project teams and developers to fully understand user requirements and expected system impact to ensure delivery is successful.
This role is all about playing a key part of the project life cycle, from a quality and testing perspective and be the driving force behind making efficiency improvements and building strong relationships. You will be required to vocalise issues and/or concerns to project team and developers efficiently. If you are someone who enjoys testing to a high standard and learning different parts of the business and system to avoid issues in production, this role is perfect for you.
You will need to be comfortable being involved from the start to finish of the software development life cycle, contributing at every stage - specifically taking full responsibility between development and User Acceptance Testing.
This is a position in a fast-paced environment and meeting deadlines will require perseverance.
This role will be primarily based in the Compass UK&I offices in Birmingham within the wider QA Test Team.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
* Reporting progress to the relevant project audience.
* Working to actively anticipate and where they exist, to remove blockers to progress.
* Fully supporting of all test activity of Test Analysts within the testing workstream.
* The ability to understand and analyse technical documentation and have an awareness of quality requirements for software development projects.
* Translate functional requirements and specifications into detailed test cases.
* Writing your own Test Plans and Status Reports.
* Running daily triage during test execution phase.
* Perform manual testing for a range of software products.
* Document test strategy and approach.
* Execute test cases and analyse results.
* Reporting, logging, tracking and managing defects in Azure Dev Ops.
* Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development life cycle.
* Identify and escalate any risks and issues where appropriate.
* Managing Test Analysts to support project of work.
* Training new Test Analyst who have joined the team.
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
* Previous Test Analyst/Lead experience (5 to 8 years)
* Previous manual testing experience of the following types of testing: systems, integration, regression
* Experience in handling multiple project/test cycles at one time
* Qualified to ISTBQ Practitioner level (or at least Foundation level)
* Experience using Azure dev ops
* Experience using SAP desirable
* Experience in Payroll Testing & Process Analysis
* Experience or Knowledge of Test Automation
* Experience of working within Complex Environments of integration
* Experience of working towards strict deadlines and execution targets
* Experience of working within Agile Test Environments
Benefits:
* Flexible hybrid working pattern available
* Fully subsidised (Free) on-site restaurant facility when working on-site
* Additional benefits also include, Holiday Entitlement, Pension Package & Health Insurance
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

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