Lead Tester / Senior Tester

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Experis are currently recruiting for a Lead Tester for a large public sector client working within the Higher Education industry. This is a urgent role for the client and the successful contractor must be available at short notice. Essential Skills & ExperienceExperienced Test Lead with experience of managing other testersAble to conduct end-to-end testing on applications and technology, to ensure that business, technical, functional and non-functional requirements are being met throughout the agile SDLC.Comprehensive understanding of test methodologies and techniquesGood experience with Agile development methodologies and testing in agile developmentPro-active in requirements gathering and analysing need for test in given scope of project using BDD (Behavioural driven development)Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills and an ability to understand complex applications with a keen eye for detail.Follow and improve testing standards and strategy document as new best practices are evolved.Experience of introducing new, suitable test techniques, processes and tooling.Identify test types and coverage for ongoing projects and implements strategy to achieve them.Liaising with product owner/project managers, teams and team leaders Able to work closely with developers as part of small Scrum teams in an agile dev-test environment.Experience of a test management tool such as Azure Devops - Test Hub or equivalentExperience in Manual, Automation (Unit/UI Functional/Integration), Performance and Accessibility testing using industry standard tools - preferably Microsoft products.Experience in test automation tools and framework - such as Specflow, Selenium, Appium, Xamarin (mobile UI test automation), Jmeter or similarExperience in exploratory testing and assisting/coordinating UAT testingExperience in basic SQL queries and backend testing.Experience in mobile app and responsive testingPreparing test scripts and frameworks for automated regression suite.Conducting continuous testing and upgrades throughout sprintsISTQB foundation level certification Desirable Skills & ExperienceISTQB certified to Advanced and/or Agile TesterMentoring and training scrum team to increase test capacity.Experience of Microsoft Azure Test Hub to manage work, bugs, test plans & cases, etc.Xamarin and Microsoft Test CloudCloud (e.g. Azure) for hosting, test automation, etc.Knowledge or experience in release management