Lead QA Engineer (SC Cleared)

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Lead QA Engineer (SC Cleared), Quality Assurance, Tester, Testing Test, Specialist, Manager, Management, Engineer, Selenium, WebDriver, Automation, CI/CD, Pipeline, RESTful, API, UAT, User Acceptance, JMeter, Gatling, Load, Performance, Web Applications, SC Clearance, DV Clearance, Security, Government, Public Sector, Gherkin, Cucumber,Our Government client based in Glasgow are currently recruiting for an experienced QA Engineer.

Lead QA Engineer required to provide technical leadership, mentorship and delivery capability to an emerging team in an award-winning transformation programme.

The existing team is comprised mostly of supplier, contract and Civil Service resources. The specialist will be expected to be embedded into current delivery teams and will be expected to lead a small team.

Specifically, we seek an exceptional Lead QA Engineer with a good balance of technical understanding and strong leadership skills who have proven experience in supporting the development, deployment and support of services built on a track record of stability, availability and quality.Key Skills / ExperienceTechnology knowledge - good experience of four or more of:Best Practice test approaches Test Automation in CI/CD pipelinesSelenium/WebDriver test automation o Load testing toolingPerformance testing tooling BDD test tooling (Gherkin/Cucumber)Making and guiding decisionsCapable of making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.Able to make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase.Take ownership of problems and proactively resolves technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions continue to meet business requirementsBridging the gap between the technical and non-technical o Translate technical concepts between infrastructure, delivery management and service management so they are understood by alAble to speak on behalf of technical and service management teams and facilitate the relationships with indirect stakeholders o Able to share knowledge and mentor (potentially non-technical) colleaguesGovernanceUnderstands technical governance and is able to participate in or deliver the assurance of a serviceUnderstands government requirements of governance, auditability and accountabilityTechnology knowledge - good experience of one or more ofInfrastructure testing tooling o JMeter o Gatling o Load Testing o Performance TestingAutomating OAT (for Web applications and RESTful APIs) o Automating Acceptance Testing (for Web applications) o Automating Regression Testing (for Web applications)