squad lead tester (prime tester)

£56,000

per year

HERMES PARCELNET LTD

23 days ago

LEEDS, WEST YORKSHIRE, LS1 4BN

Deadline: 17 April 2021

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OCCUPATION TITLE

Software Tester

SOC CODE

2139

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£31,800

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We are Hermes, the UK’s leading consumer delivery company handling over 300 million parcels per year with a 15% growth year on year for the last five years.


We are embarking on a journey, utilising cutting edge technology to ultimately engage our customers at every touchpoint in their digital experience.


As a team, we innovate and challenge the status quo to meet the needs of our broad and varied client base.


We believe that every team member will play their part in achieving the goals of the team, department and company. 


As an individual, you'll have the support to grow and progress your career. We are building a learning culture, where it's safe to fail, and failures seen as learning opportunities.


We are establishing a team of skilled individuals with a passion for technology


Job Overview:


The Prime Tester (Squad Lead) is responsible for delivering high-quality software in line with established policies and technology stack. The role also involves leading and line managing a multi-disciplined, globally distributed squad and working with product owners and scrum masters in the delivery of business goals. 


This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

  • Work with other engineering leads to improve structure and ways of working to ensure software quality and stability is at the forefront of their respective squads’ priorities
  • You will have the technical gravitas and experience in delivering software through modern engineering principles that will allow you to lead other multi-discipline squad members, improve their ways of working and adoption of best practice
  • Maintaining documentation, ensuring that the knowledge acquired is available across the organisation and built into the squads as a discipline
  • You will demonstrate excellence in defect prevention and be able to demonstrate how this model is applied to more junior developers
  • You will lead technical planning sessions and be able to show junior members of the team how the implementation of an Agile user story should be planned
  • Supporting the Application Design Developers in producing the C3/C4 level designs they will be accountable for.
  • Ensure your squad develop performant, efficient and reliable applications
  • Assists in the evaluation of options and trade-offs for implementing requirements.
  • Design, verify, tests, document, amend and refactor complex software.
  • Participate in estimation and planning work with an adaptive (iterative/agile) approach.
  • Collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate to validate the quality
  • Testing of the solutions to produce quality deliverables and ensuring compliance with the agreed testing standards
  • KPI capture and remedial actions to achieve agreed KPI levels.
  • All other test activity associated with the role of Senior Tester, as defined in that Job description




You will be accountable for:

  • Leading a squad developing fast, scalable, reliable, and efficient apps
  • Making sure engineering policies and selected tools are adhered to
  • Supporting all squad members (internal and external) to deliver using the documented standards and best practice
  • Making sure agreed test coverage is implemented and daily progress communicated
  • Keeping code repositories and Version Control up to date
  • Supporting senior members of the team
  • Line Management and Performance Reviews for your squad.
  • Ensuring any 3rd Party supplied resources within your given squad also adhere to Hermes Engineering Standards and Best Practice 

Technical & People Skills: 

  • Agile, Scrum, BDD, TDD, Pull Request, CI/CD
  • Solid understanding of JSON data structures and API calls
  • Solid understanding of SQL and scripting
  • Solid understanding of BDD, programming and testing
  • Understanding of: AWS, S3 buckets, Oracle, Serenity, J-Meter, Cassandra, Rabbit MQ
  • Java technology stack
  • Basic interaction with FTP and XML Structures
  • Translation of Gherkin into Cucumber
  • Selenium Web Driver
  • Experience using Git version control and JIRA
  • Experience with security testing practices and tooling (SonarQube)
  • Experience with Gitlab, specifically with CI/CD pipelines
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude

Knowledge & Experience: 

  • 5+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Tester
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience working in programmatic automation 
    • Data-driven and API automated testing using Cucumber or equivalent
    • UI driven automated testing using Selenium or equivalent
  • Strong knowledge of using software QA methodologies, tools and processes
  • Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and cases
  • Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
  • Hands-on experience with performance testing using open source tools is desirable
  • Experience working with an agile framework (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Experience using DevOps principles and automation practices
  • Experience working in an Agile and DevOps software development team

Qualifications: 

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Agile certifications are desirable
  • ISTQB certification is required
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