Skills

Leadership Java MongoDB Splunk GitHub GitLab CI/CD DevOps Docker Monitoring Jenkins Test Selenium Performance Testing AWS Recruitment Automation Testing JS Spring Spring Boot Kafka Prometheus Grafana Microservices

Job Specifications

Job Title: Lead Test Engineer - SC (Must be eligible)
Location: Hybrid (3 days/week on site) - choice of locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle
Contract Duration : 12 Months
Daily Rate: £600-640/day(Umbrella - Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Security Clearance: SC (Musty be eligible)
Minimum Requirement:
Significant experience leading and testing micro services
Functional and non functional testing
Hands on experience in automation testing
Leadership skills
Experience leading microservices transformation (not just working it)
Job Description:
Lead Test Engineer you will define and implement the strategy for build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up digital services providing leadership, guidance and technical expertise to the test engineering teams.
Set direction for your service/capability and teams that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence);
Ensure that your teams work aligns to standards;
Have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services;
Ensure that you team follow best practice;
Be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making;
Have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.
Personal Specification
Have experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices from Monolith service across multiple teams (mandatory)
Experience in business context/domain driven testing approach for Java spring boot-based application or non JVM based application
Experience in contract testing and component testing such as API, message based asynchronous testing such as Kafka or similar technology
Experience in non-relational database ie mongo DB or similar
Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well-structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java or TS/JS preferred).
Have experience in non-functional experience such as performance testing ( Gatling, K6 ) and accessibility testing
Have experience in CI/CD pipeline
Engineering Tools and Technologies
Cloud: AWS (primary)
Test Frameworks: Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Playwright,
Other tools: Spring Cloud Contract, Pactflow, Kafka, Mongodb, Browserstack
DevOps: Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker
Performance testing - Gatling, K6
Observability and Monitoring - Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.
Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant
CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181

About the Company

Aspect Resources offers specialist Engineering & IT recruitment that is tailored to meet individual client needs. We aim to gain a full understanding of your organisation as well as specific company requirements in order to offer you a bespoke solution which will improve and not hinder your processes, as we are well aware that what works for one won't work for all. With a focus on recruiting White Collar Technical talent, Aspect Resources brings a wealth of knowledge within the Engineering & IT Domains enabling us to succe... Know more