QA Lead Role - Finance / Payments - Contract (RP/QALEAD)

GCS; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment company is seeking a QA Lead for a major finance company's payment system, focusing on API testing. The role requires strong experience in test automation and various testing frameworks, with a hybrid working model requiring 3 days in the office. Competitive rate and potential for extension after 6 months.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java, Junit, Cucumber, and API testing frameworks.
• 3+ years of hands-on test automation experience.
• Experience in DevOps and containerized environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA working on an integral payment system.
• Drive quality discussions around requirements.
• Identify test cases using boundary value analysis.

Skills

Java

JUnit

Cucumber

Gherkin

Gatling

Xray

Selenium Webdriver

TestNG

Pact Testing

API Testing Frameworks

AWS expertise

Hoppscotch or Postman

DevOps experience

Containerized environments

Jenkins CI/CD

Gradle

Github

Nexus

SonarQube

Test Automation

Spring Boot

Job description

Overview

QA Lead - Finance / Payments / Contract

Lead QA working on an integral payment system for a major finance company within their payments team. Emphasis on API testing.

Role

QA Lead

Duration

6 months with very likely extension

Rate

Negotiable

Location

Hybrid / Hampshire - 3 days per week in the office

Skills

• Experience with Java, Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Gatling, Xray, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Pact Testing, API Testing Frameworks. AWS expertise preferred.
• Hoppscotch or Postman experience testing APIs
• Experience identifying test cases using boundary valuation analysis, negative testing, etc.
• Drives quality discussions around requirements in refinement
• Payments network experience
• Exposure to modern software testing practices including but not restricted to Test Automation, Test First, TDD, ATDD and BDD.
• Experience in DevOps (preferably working with containerized environments) and build tools using Jenkins CI/CD, Gradle, Github, Nexus and SonarQube and other code coverage tools preferred.
• Experience testing and implementing API service architecture with Spring Boot.
• 3+ years of Hands-on Test Automation required.

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