Principal QA Engineer

2 weeks ago

Belfast, United Kingdom TP ICAP Full time

Role Overview

The Principal QA Engineer (PQE) will provide technical leadership, specialising in the area of test, to the development teams and nurture a culture of continual learning. The Principal QA Engineer will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to testing and delivery, either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to testing and related best practices within their teams. 

 The Principal QA Engineer will be passionate about software testing and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. 

Role Responsibilities

Development, Architecture, SDLC and Delivery 

Act as the primary technical tester on a team, demonstrating strong technical competencies and acting as a dependable and high value contributor within the team such that other team members know what they should aspire to 

Provide technical oversight of the testing deliverables for assigned projects 

Design, develop, test and oversee automated testing solutions, including the development of complex systems, and modifications to existing systems 

Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation 

Ensure the team engages in a well defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs 

Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging previous experience 

Be custodians for target state architecture and best practice within your respective development team 

Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries 

Communication and Leadership 

Work alongside Team Leaders, to provide technical leadership and direction for testing and seek to support and influence across multiple development teams where possible 

Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice 

Coach developers and testers across multiple teams to deliver high quality and innovative testing solutions

Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development, through both gated checks like code reviews and more supportive approaches such as mentoring or identifying stretch opportunities for team members 

Change, Risk and Issue Management 

Guide and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate 

Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions

Share complex technical designs or issues with non-technical stakeholders and influence their decision making where necessary 

Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the testing process 

Assist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements 

Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders 

Experience / Competences

Essential

Education/Professional Qualifications 

Degree or equivalent industry experience 

Professional Competencies 

Experience of hands on technical leadership 

Experience mentoring colleagues and supporting colleague growth 

Experience overseeing the testing of complex systems in an agile environment 

Technical Competencies 

Enterprise system experience 

Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role 

Experience designing and implementing test strategies for complex systems 

Experience of at least one full stack or scripting language (such as Java, C#, Python, JS) 

Deep technical knowledge in an area relevant to test: 

Designing and implementing automated tests in complex systems 

Analysing and troubleshooting the performance of complex systems 

Skills relevant to building CI/CD pipelines – tools, operating systems, containerisation 

Desired

Experience of multi-year projects from inception to maintenance 

Experience working across multiple teams 

Experience of transitioning applications and/or products from vendors or remote locations to local teams 

Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products 

Financial sector experience 

Demonstrably researches new knowledge 

Participates in the wider testing or engineering community through the attendance of meet ups or other external forums 

Technical Competencies 

Linux shell or Windows powershell experience 

Experience of CI and CD in an enterprise environment 

Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery 

Experience in different test models e.g. Agile Testing, Session Based Testing 

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