Description
As QA Lead you will be responsible for defining, executing and maintaining the strategic roadmap for the Casino area in terms of automation and testing practices.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Automation & Performance Capability
- Lead the development of Automation frameworks to maintain or improve our delivery pipeline capabilities in both backend and frontend areas together with other QA leads.
- Collaborate with the Engineering teams to maintain the automation strategies agreed upon whole Casino
- Follow and improve existing QA processes (e.g. Release testing, Quality Maturity Level evaluation, Testing strategy)
- Maintain and improve current automation statistics (e.g. Jira Dashboard, Confluence) to have always an updated visibility on the status
- Be an active member of the Casino Leads group and testing guild
- Create automation roadmaps to improve delivery and reduce manual testing
- Provide tooling recommendations to engineering teams
- Improve the monitoring system in terms of Automation tests
- Support and provide guidance to the testing guild
- Maintain regular code reviews
- Being proactive in tackling the challenges in terms of automation and/or implementing them
- Being active in the testing guild and analyse the solutions proposed thoroughly
- Being owner of the performance testing strategy for Casino area
Leadership
- Provide 360 feedback to the workstream QAs twice/year
- Delegating certain responsibilities to the QAs workstream representatives and making sure that the deadlines are met.
- Being actively involved together with the other QA leads in the company’s and vertical testing guild
KEY REQUIREMENTS:
Behavioural Competencies
- Collaborative, team player, product-oriented, delivery focused
- Influential e.g. Inspire those to follow
- Advocate the software development lifecycle (SDLC), enable within the Software Development team in a practical manner
- Willing to adapt, mentor and share knowledge within and across workstreams
- Taking a supportive and nurturing approach towards development of other QA members
Technical Competencies
- Experience in automation testing (e.g. WebDriverIO, Appium, Typescript)
- Experience and knowledge in testing microservices (e.g. API, Contract testing)
- Good knowledge in performance testing (JMeter/Locust/Python)
- Experience with AWS services and containerization (e.g. Terraform, Docker, API gateway, Lambda, Step Functions)
- Background in mobile testing and automation
- Good knowledge of monitoring tools (e.g. Kibana, Datadog)
- Experience with implementing CI/CD processes (e.g. Buildkite)
Key experience & qualifications
- 6+ years software delivery experience
- Demonstrated experience leading and influencing testers
What you can expect:
- 25 days of annual leave;
- Sharesave scheme;
- „Flexible Benefits” of your choice;
- Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments);
- Free parking;
- Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy'.
Ways of working:
Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview. By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, in order to consider you for prospective Paddy Power Betfair role.
