Senior Test Engineer – Strategic QA Lead (Hybrid)

First Military Recruitment Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

First Military Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to define testing strategy and lead test engineering teams across multiple locations in the UK, with a hybrid working model (60%). The role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration, and delivering testing activities that meet quality, time, and cost objectives.

You will oversee testing efforts, drive improvements, and ensure best practices are applied across teams while maintaining effective communication with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Informatica PowerCentre and Oracle experience are essential.
• Ability to provide authoritative guidance on test planning and best practices.
• Capability to design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques.
• Able to adapt and reflect, resilient, and able to see outside of the process.
• Communicate non-functional test results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to select appropriate processes or delivery methods and measure outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic direction for product teams and the test engineering community.
• Lead multiple test engineering teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Lead delivery of testing activities, ensuring quality, time and cost objectives are met.
• Act as an escalation point for defects or issues preventing delivery of activities.
• Define the approach for test infrastructure setup and use outputs to drive technical improvements.
• Identify appropriate required technical test tools.
• Monitor performance of the test suite and identify improvements by reducing technical debt.
• Drive standardisation by sharing reusable libraries and services, experience, and lessons learned with other teams.
• Drive collaboration by aligning what teams are working on and highlighting dependencies, impacts and priorities.
• Develop appropriate test approaches and reporting mechanisms to be agreed with senior stakeholders.
• Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes, gathering information and recommendations for improvements.
• Manage planning of system and acceptance tests, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications.

Skills

Leadership

Test planning

Non-functional testing

Communication

Collaboration

Adaptability

Tools

Informatica PowerCentre

Oracle

Job description

First Military Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to define testing strategy and lead test engineering teams across multiple locations in the UK, with a hybrid working model (60%). The role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration, and delivering testing activities that meet quality, time, and cost objectives.

You will oversee testing efforts, drive improvements, and ensure best practices are applied across teams while maintaining effective communication with stakeholders