Flexa
FSCS • London & Homebased

Test Lead

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  circa. £71,000

3–4 days/week at home

Fully flexible hours

Job Description

The Test Lead is responsible for test planning, execution, co-ordination, and reporting of FSCS information systems and software applications to ensure the delivery of high-quality business applications following industry best practice. The systems include; Customer Relationship Management, Web Applications, Workflow Management, Document Management, Microsoft Power Apps and Data Integration.


The Test Lead will be required to work closely with our suppliers and partners delivering solutions to meet the business needs and therefore requires strong communication, planning and co-ordination skills.


My Priorities
Testing Strategy, Planning & Execution
• Define and execute test cases. Capture test results, defects and defect priority.
• Work with business resources and co-ordinate creation of UAT test scenarios and scripts.
• Work closely with the business stakeholders, delivery and technology teams to deliver requirements successfully into production with minimal risk.
• Support continuous improvement of the testing framework based on industry standard functional and non-functional frameworks and tools, embracing agile ways of workings.
• Understand business requirements and processes to define test plans.
• Continuous review of scope and testability of all requirements.
• Provide test estimates and approach to Product Managers.
• Identify and documenting Risk, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies in test phase.
• Embed best practices and quality improvements. Including Test Automation.
• Embed performance metrics.
• Responsibility for test phases. Including 3rd party test activities.

Information Security and Data Protection related responsibilities
• Successfully pass the FSCS information security induction training annually.
• Adhere to FSCS policies including Information Security, Data Protection, Acceptable Use as well as relevant supporting documents.
• Ensure that procedures for Information Security and Data Management are adhered to.
• Ensure that Data Handling is managed securely and in accordance with its classification.
Report any security breaches and/or incidents identified to the relevant team.

My Knowledge – what I need to know
Technical Skills & Knowledge
• ISEB/ISTQB Software Testing accredited or equivalent.
• Experience of using test management tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, HP ALM, Jira)
• Substantial experience using the following technology suite (Selenium, Specflow, Nunit, Extent-Reporting, Page Object Model).
• C# Programming language
• Visual Studio 2019 or higher
• SQL
• Experience of MS Office, MS Project and Visio.
• SDLC methodology.
• Testing in an Agile (SCRUM) environment.
• ETL testing experience
• Test leadership and execution of functional and non-functional testing in an Agile (SCRUM) environment.
• Integrating automated test cases with CI/CD frameworks and tools (Azure DevOps).
• Good knowledge of risk management, defect management, task planning and measuring and reporting performance against key metrics.
• Browser Compatibility test tools e.g. BrowserStack (desirable
• Experience of xml and service orientated protocols (desirable).

Functional Competencies
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to demonstrate proven track record in leading web-based applications testing, including mobile devices and Database Testing.
• Willingness to record, capture and document all tasks and projects without exception through the appropriate IT process/procedure.
• Good organisation skills with a logical, analytical approach to solving IT problems and the ability to prioritise work to meet demands and deadlines of both IT support and IT development.
• A self-starter who can adapt and respond effectively to changing requirements and priorities.
• Capable of analysing complex requirements and design specifications and corresponding test cases to prove specifications.
• Excellent attention to detail with verbal and written communication.


Experience
• Demonstrate experience of Leading Test Teams in an agile environment using SCRUM.
• Substantial experience of writing detailed, structured test scripts using best practice design principles.
• Full software development lifecycle experience using structured and agile approaches.
• Excellent understanding of testing methodology and analytical skills to ensure full understanding of potential defects.
• Test automation framework and tools delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of testing across technology platforms such as:
o Customer Relationship Management (e.g. Siebel)
o Enterprise Document Management Systems (e.g. OpenText)
o Web Portals / Online Application Forms, and integration
• Proven ability to work at a detailed level adopting a “hands-on” approach to identify and pro-actively resolve issues.
• Experience in preparing status reports and defect reports (including dashboards).

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
Work from anywhere scheme – 4 weeks working overseas per year
26 days annual leave + bank holidays
Work from home allowance
Pregnancy loss leave
Teambuilding days
An additional 20 days dependants leave.
Private medical insurance for your whole family.
Location
71%
Employees are largely happy with their working location freedom
Hours
83%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
90%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
74%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
76%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Working at FSCS

Company employees

250+

Office locations

City of London

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

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