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Role: Test Lead Engineer
Location: London, UK
Type: Contract
Job Description
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Leadership and Guidance:
Lead, mentor, and guide distributed QA teams to ensure high-quality, predictable delivery. -
Stakeholder Engagement:
Serve as a primary QA point of contact for project stakeholders. -
Collaboration:
Collaborate with Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve blockers, and establish clear acceptance criteria. -
Agile/Scrum Practices:
Promote Agile/Scrum practices and contribute to requirement reviews through a shift-left testing approach. -
Test Strategy and Execution:
Define and maintain test strategies, plans, estimates, and execution approaches.
Track and communicate test progress, defect trends, risks, dependencies, and overall release quality. -
Documentation and Metrics:
Maintain accurate and comprehensive QA documentation and metrics. -
Requirement Analysis:
Analyze complex functional and business requirements within core banking environments. -
End-to-End Testing:
Design and execute end-to-end testing for banking workflows, including customer accounts, deposits, lending, payments, trade-related processes, and other financial services. -
Validation:
Validate business rules, transaction processing, accounting impacts, and integration points. -
System Integration:
Verify upstream and downstream system integrations across complex banking ecosystems. -
User Acceptance Testing (UAT):
Support UAT by coordinating test activities, investigating issues, and working closely with business users.
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- Production Support:
Provide QA support during production releases, deployment validation, and post-release verification.
Test Execution & Automation
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Test Scenarios and Cases:
Design, develop, review, and maintain comprehensive test scenarios, test cases, and test data. -
Testing Types:
Lead functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, sanity, and end-to-end testing. -
Automation:
Develop and execute automation solutions across Web, API, and Mobile platforms. -
Continuous Improvement:
Contribute to the continuous improvement of automation frameworks, test coverage, and execution efficiency. -
Defect Management:
Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing effort through effective automation.
Manage the complete defect lifecycle, including defect identification, logging, triage, retesting, and regression validation. -
Defect Triage:
Participate in defect triage meetings and work with development teams to drive timely resolution.
Requirements
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Experience:
Proven hands-on experience testing core banking applications and financial workflows. -
Knowledge:
Strong understanding of banking processes, transaction lifecycles, accounting impacts, and end-of-day processing. -
Software Quality Assurance:
Significant experience in Software Quality Assurance, including experience in a Test Lead or Senior QA role. -
Methodologies:
Strong knowledge of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). -
Automation:
Practical experience developing and executing automation frameworks for Web, REST/SOAP APIs, and Mobile applications.
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- Agile/Scrum:
Strong understanding and practical experience of Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
Technical Skills
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Test Management:
Experience with defect and test management platforms such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, or equivalent tools. -
SQL and Database Testing:
Strong SQL and database-testing skills, including writing queries to validate backend data and transaction states. -
Testing Methodologies:
Good understanding of functional and non-functional testing methodologies. -
Integration Testing:
Experience with integration testing across enterprise applications and external/internal interfaces. -
CI/CD:
Familiarity with CI/CD and modern QA practices is desirable.
Leadership & Soft Skills
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Analytical Skills:
Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities with a strong quality-focused mindset. -
Risk Management:
Ability to identify edge cases, challenge assumptions, and proactively uncover potential system risks. -
Communication:
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. -
Team Coordination:
Proven ability to coordinate distributed teams and manage multiple priorities. -
Attention to Detail:
Strong ownership, accountability, and attention to detail. -
Fast-Paced Environment:
Ability to work effectively in fast-paced delivery environments and meet critical deadlines.
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