Lead Test Engineer & QA Automation Coach

Kainos; Budock Water; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Lead Test Engineer (Consultant) who will take on a key technical leadership role within an agile software testing team. Responsibilities include managing a team, ensuring comprehensive test coverage, and leveraging test automation tools like Selenium and Jenkins.

The ideal candidate will possess expertise in both manual and automated testing, along with experience in coaching others. Kainos values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Qualifications

• Experience ensuring adequate testing coverage according to testing principles.
• Expertise in designing, creating, and maintaining test scripts.
• Practical knowledge of an object-oriented programming language.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader in software testing.
• Manage, coach, and develop a small team on performance management.
• Provide direction in solving challenging problems for customers.

Skills

Test automation using Selenium

Continuous integration with Jenkins

Object-oriented programming in Java

Coaching and mentoring

Tools

JUnit

TestNG

Cucumber

Cypress

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Lead Test Engineer (Consultant) who will take on a key technical leadership role within an agile software testing team. Responsibilities include managing a team, ensuring comprehensive test coverage, and leveraging test automation tools like Selenium and Jenkins.

The ideal candidate will possess expertise in both manual and automated testing, along with experience in coaching others. Kainos values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.