Contract Test Lead - West Yorkshire - £400-450 p/day


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Spring Group Plc

Listed on

24th October 2019

Location

West Yorkshire

Salary/Rate

£400 - £450

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Test Lead

Job Purpose and Accountabilities:

The role is for a Test Lead to join a project focused on delivering a variety of data and advanced analytics heavy solutions based in, West Yorkshire, on an initial 3-month contract. The role will require working with several Business/Data Analysts and Technical/Design Leads in order to plan and execute the test approach as well as supervise a Test Analyst.

Skills and experience required:

*Proven experience as a Test Lead/Manager and demonstrable experience of successful testing and delivery.

*Experience testing data solutions at the data layer - SQL skills will be a must.

*Experience testing advanced analytical models and predictive models.

*Experience testing visualisation rich dashboards and underlying data/models.

*Ability to define (and create) test data to support the planned testing.

*Ability to run tests in a time sensitive environment and demonstrate how to capture key test results / issues early on in the testing cycle

*Ability to create a test plan which takes into account data requirements, test script requirements, resource allocation and planning

*Support the design and development test scenarios/scripts for functional testing

*Knowledge and experience with creating test scenarios / cases and tracking them through the end-to-end process.

*Strong time/activity management to ensure plan is run to meet deadlines

*Strong engagement skills and ability to work with stakeholders

*Coordination of testing activities (including preparation) during every stage of the test process with business Management/co-ordination of testing activities

*Reporting of test progress

*Manage the process of raising and resolving test defects in a structured manner and provide solutions

*Ownership of testing related meetings/calls and documentation

*Co-ordination of project and business resources for testing activities

*Experience with test tools such as Jira/HP QC

*Ability to develop and document;

-A test strategy across the suite of projects we have

-Test plans for each workstream

-Functional and non-functional testing

-Test Entry/Exit criteria

-Co -ordinate the compilation of and contribute to the creation and running of test scripts for regression, E2E system and integration test, UAT

-3rd party application testing

-Plan and Manage test environments

-Capture test environment requirements and co-ordinate environment configuration including data preparation.

*Attending and informing at Pre-test and pre-implementation technical governance meetings as required

*Test Reporting

*Defect management

*Co-ordination of re-testing and sign off for release

*Experience of testing in areas of data analytics and telemetry systems

*Experience of Power BI, OSI Soft PI, SQL

*Ability to co-ordinate and manage Resources

*Experienced in liaising with SME's team leaders BA's. DA's, Data scientists.

*ISEB Qualified in Software Testing advantageous

*Development skills/understanding advantageous

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