QA & Automation Lead, SDET: Java, C#, Agile, TDD/BDD, Banking

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Search Criteria: Agile, TDD, BDD, Test Manager, Test Lead, QA Manager, Java, C#, Equities, Fixed Income, Banking, Agile, TDD, BDD, Automation, Manual, Selenium, Protractor, SDET, SQL, problem solver, Quality Assurance, QA Lead, QA Automation.

Excellent opportunity within this financial firm experiencing unprecedented growth, for an experienced QA & Automation Lead, to drive the successful automation and tooling with Quality (QA and the cross-firm Test function). IT is committed to the full Agile integration of Testing into Development for true TDD/BDD. In addition to greenfield and brownfield development, there is a major project transforming their real-time calculation platforms to brand new massively up-scaled Java based in-house built solutions, largely based on Open Source stack (Java, SQL/NoSQL, Selenium, AWS).

As a QA & Automation Lead you will be responsible for establishing and evolving formal processes, managing and mentoring a team and managing vendors/partners and constantly assess the technologies and techniques in the market place to build into the ever-evolving Test and process automation. They are looking for an experienced Test Automation specialist, (SDET), a strong background in building automated Frameworks from the ground up, (Java, C#), within a demanding business area.

Your reports will be working side by side with Developers and you will need to draw on your considerable Agile experience and its pragmatic application and be a problem solver. It is likely you will have at least 5 years’ experience of leading successful Testing groups in Agile environments where you have played a major part in its adoption. Experience of Open Stack (Java, Linux/Unix, Protractor, AWS). You will have a strong technology background, Java and/or C#, and have worked with business-critical real-time information systems.

This is an expanding London office in a diversified international group, both in terms of the business and technology where you can make an obvious and appreciated difference by making the business better through the smart use of IT. They believe in less bureaucracy and work life balance where smart people get the work done in core working hours.