Role: Lead Test Engineer REF 97182
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week in any office (Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Lead Test Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD TEST ENGINEER
- Set direction for your service/capability and teams that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence);
- Ensure that your teams work aligns to standards;
- Have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services;
- Ensure that you team follow best practice;
- Be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making;
- Have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LEAD TEST ENGINEER
- Have experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices from Monolith service across multiple teams (mandatory)
- Experience in business context / domain driven testing approach for java spring boot-based application or non JVM based application
- Experience in contract testing and component testing such as API, message based asynchronous testing such as Kafka or similar technology
- Experience in non-relational database I.e. mongo db or similar
- Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well-structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java or TS/JS preferred).
- Have experience in non-functional experience such as performance testing ( Gatling , K6 ) and accessibility testing
- Have experience in CI/CD pipeline
Engineering Tools and Technologies
- Cloud: AWS (primary)
- Test Frameworks: Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Playwright,
- Other tools: Spring Cloud Contract, Pactflow, Kafka, Mongodb,Browserstack
- DevOps:Gitlab,GitHub , Jenkins, Docker
- Performance testing – Gatling, K6
- Observability and Monitoring – Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.
If you are a Lead Test Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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