Lead Test Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

• Job type: Full time - Permanent
• Salary: Up to €75,000
• Sector : Software Engineering
• Location: Hybrid in Tallaght or fully remote within Ireland

Our client is a leading provider of accounting, payroll and HR solutions to businesses across the UK and Ireland, with ambitious growth plans. We streamline processes for accountants and businesses by delivering excellent products that enable automation and integration of core business functions, underpinned by world-class support.

The ideal candidate will be able to create, maintain and operate test automation frameworks.

With minimal supervision design, authors, automates, executes, log defects, and provides status reports of application testing on Mid to High Complex Projects.

What's on offer?

• Learning and Development: we will support you in growing your career, helping you achieve success.
• Diversity & Inclusion: every employee has a voice and an opinion; we want to hear yours.
• Employee Engagement: coming to work must be fun! We promote health and wellbeing as well as great benefits.

Our Benefits include

• Competitive starting salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Additional annual leave
• Company pension
• Hybrid working opportunities
• On-site parking
• Free Food & Friday Fry
• Educational Assistance
• Great company social events
• Wellness programmes
• Bike to Work

Responsibilities

• Lead the effort in designing the UI integration and API load testing suites from the ground up
• Collaboration with the development team in creating automated test suites
• On-going automation of manual tests and subsequent integration into automated regression test suites
• Test Plan / Acceptance Criteria design and creation
• Test Case creation and execution
• Defect logging
• Provide Estimates for QC Effort detailing breakdown of activities
• Participates or provides leadership for multiple QC activities
• Is self-managed to react to and provide support to both IT and business teams
• Perform best practices/methodologies, QC and end to end testing using automated tools
• Provides advice and support to other business areas in the use of Bright QC processes & procedures. These could include Best Practice/methodologies, QC and end to end testing or tool selection, automation and use
• Contributes to the development of business documentation. Delivers business documents related to Bright's QC programs that includes areas such as best practices, testing or tool support
• Implements improvements to test techniques, projects and audit processes to create efficiency's
• Provides input on specified test area, platform or client for readiness meeting before production push.
• Provides QC results, risk assessment and go/no go recommendation

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and typically 4+ years' experience in automated testing roles
• QC methodologies, industry best practices, software development lifecycle
• Experience developing both UI Based integration tests, and API level load tests
• Experience with automating test scripts using tools such as (but not limited to) Coded UI, Selenium, Quick Test Professional, JMeter, Soap UI
• Experience of Microsoft development environment
  • Microsoft .Net (C#)
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • Azure Devops
  • IDEs like Visual Studio, VSCode, Jetbrains Rider etc.
• Source Control (Git)
• Excellent oral and written communications; an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding. Fluency in English is essential
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with keen attention to detail
• Is proficient in the use of an appropriate SQA tool suite.

Desired Skills

• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and Testing
• Exposure to containerised software and kubernetes
• Experience of working with CI/CD process management methodology.
• Formal training in SQA methods e.g. ISTQB training.
• Attends conferences and/or user groups; belongs to professional organizations e.g. SoftTest Ireland, ISTB, and Vivit etc.

Must have EU Citizenship, Stamp 4, or Stamp1G.