QAE Lead

hackajob is collaborating with NTT DATA UK to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role. The Team You'll Be Working With As a QAE lead you be part of the leadership team within the NTT DATA UK&I QAE Practice. You will have the opportunity of joining an award-winning Quality Assurance & Engineering team that is working on some of the most cutting edge technologies that is embracing new innovations, such as in built quality checks that embraces AI/GenAI for test automation and predictive analytics. What is key to this role is the ability to lead and inspire a team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. This is a mix of a hands on role whereby you will lead Automation and quality Engineering initiatives and in parallel play a key role in expanding our existing portfolio of Quality Engineering assets and services. Having strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders is a must. What You'll Be Doing You will join a highly focused quality engineering team that are experts in driving an engineering led approach to driving value for our clients. You are responsible to ensure Shift-Left Testing emphasising early testing in the development lifecycle. You will have experience of multiple Automation Frameworks that support various types of testing (unit, integration, UI, end-to-end), such as WebdriverIO, Cypress and Playwright. You will play a key role to mentor and train your team on the latest testing tools and methodologies. You will always look for ways to improve your quality engineering approach and capture the value created through defining and tracking quality metrics such as defect density, test pass rate, and mean time to detect/resolve issues.    What Experience You'll Bring

• Ideally a Background in consultancy across the full SDLC/Engineering
• Can evidence being able to drive sales /growth by expanding within a client or winning new business
• Highly articulate and confident of communicating bottom up and top down
• In tune with latest Developlments & insights into GenAI & QE etc
• Experience of building advanced and feature rich test automation frameworks from scratch using Object-oriented and scripted languages  
• Has breadth of experience across different tech-stacks. At least two of the following: JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, or Python, amongst others  
• Has a depth of knowledge in the Object-oriented Programming paradigm (OOP) and has practically applied the principles  
• Working in an Agile team, you will be responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage  
• Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment.  
• Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery.  
• Participate in estimation activities and identify opportunities for improvement within the team.  
• Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice, continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to  
• Comfortable working with Git repositories and workflows on multiple tasks concurrently
• Ability to manage and lead code review processes, mitigate conflicts within the team and get quality work merged in the main branch 
• Proactively collaborate with the Front-end development team, understand the design of the Front-end and discussing issues with the developers to better understand requirements and expectations  
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process  
• Understanding of non-functional requirements and testing, with a focus on performance (but also accessibility, compatibility and aspects of security)
• Exposure to the Operating System Command line (Windows or Linux)  
• Strong problem-solving skills , exhibits logical/critical thinking    
• Good coding skills (SOLID, DI, Design Patterns, etc.)   
• Able to unit test the framework built   
• Experienced working with Cucumber and/or SpecFlow, BDD, ATDD  
• Web UI testing experience (different browsers)   
• API / Microservice Testing experience   
• Has worked across different application domains including Cloud, and Web Applications.  
• Mobile Automation, and Contract Testing is a plus  
• Ability to work as part of a team and on their own initiative. Consultancy background would be beneficial  
• Integrate automation tests into CI/CD pipelines   

Nice to have  

• GitHub Actions,  GitLab pipelines, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jenkins (any experience on these will be beneficial)
• AWS experience  
• Experience with any of these tools: Cypress, Playwright, Webdriver.io (but with strong experience in Selenium)
• Understanding (better experience) with Contract Testing frameworks (preferably PACT)
• Experience setting up E2E testing frameworks with automation in mind, covering all the aspects of the SDLC