Senior Quality Engineer

CPS Group (UK) Limited; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Leicester is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to enhance software quality through testing and automation. The role involves mentoring teams, improving processes, and driving testing initiatives in an Agile environment, requiring strong technical skills and communication abilities.

Qualifications

• Experience within a similar Quality Engineering role, ideally at a Senior level.
• Strong background in Scrum teams.
• High level of communication skills and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end testing efforts across the software development lifecycle.
• Mentor and guide offshore testing teams.
• Oversee planning, preparation, and execution of test cases.

Skills

Agile test delivery

Test automation tools

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Java

Groovy

CI/CD

Azure Test Plans

Education

Senior Quality Engineering experience

Tools

Katalon

Selenium

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer (Leicester)
Leicester - 3 days a week
Salary: up to 70,000 pa + bonuses

CPS Group is working with a well-established client in Leicester, offering an excellent opportunity for a Senior Quality Engineer to join their company.

Offices based in Leicester, onsite 3 days per week.

The role will be heavily involved in Test delivery, collaboration as well as hands-on testing and test automation.

The Senior Quality Engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. Acting as a champion of quality, this role will continuously seek opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and testing techniques. This is a hands-on, techno-functional position that requires strong experience in Agile test delivery to guide, oversee, and execute testing activities within a product team.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end testing efforts across the software development lifecycle.
- Mentor and guide offshore testing teams to ensure alignment with quality standards.
- Oversee the planning, preparation, and execution of test cases, as well as automation and defect management.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within Agile testing practices.

Skills /experience:

- Background within a similar Quality Engineering role, ideally at a Senior level already.
- Strong background in working within Scrum Teams.
- Exposure to test automation tools (Katalon or Selenium or similar), strong technical skills within Java or Groovy, as well as experience with DevOps Pipeline / CI/CD, Azure Test plans would be an advantage too.
- High level of communication and stakeholder engagement skills

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