APEX Group
Software Development QA Manager page is loaded Software Development QA Manager Apply remote type Hybrid locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id JR- The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers. Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion. That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply 'empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience. Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities. For our business, for clients, and for you About Tocan Tocan is a SaaS platform dedicated to simplifying the investment and administration of funds. With three distinct portals for Investors, Administrators, and Fund Managers, our mission is to deliver seamless, efficient, and intuitive solutions for onboarding and managing fund investments. At Tocan, we pride ourselves on fostering a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment where team members work closely with customers and end users to deliver meaningful impact. Role Overview As the Head of Quality Assurance, you will be responsible for defining, leading, and executing Tocan's quality assurance strategy. This role involves oversight of the QA team, ensuring the highest standards of software quality across our platform. The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader with a hands-on approach, capable of driving innovation, ensuring customer satisfaction, and embedding a culture of quality throughout the organization. Key Responsibilities 1. Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive QA strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and technology roadmaps. Establish and promote a culture of quality across the organization, emphasizing proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement. 2. Team Management: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing QA team, fostering professional growth and collaboration. Set clear goals and expectations for QA team members, monitoring performance and providing constructive feedback. 3. Process and Standards: Define and implement robust QA processes, methodologies, and tools to ensure efficient and effective testing practices. Drive the adoption of industry best practices in manual, automated, and performance testing. 4. Product Quality Oversight: Oversee all testing activities across the Investor, Administrator, and Fund Manager Portals, ensuring functionality, scalability, and reliability. Validate critical workflows and business scenarios to meet customer expectations and business requirements. 5. Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product management, and customer support teams to identify and address quality challenges. Act as the primary advocate for quality in cross-functional discussions and decision-making processes. 6. Metrics and Reporting: Define, track, and report on key quality metrics to measure success and identify areas for improvement. Present QA insights and progress to executive leadership, offering recommendations for enhancing overall product quality. 7. Innovation and Tooling: Stay abreast of emerging trends in QA tools, technologies, and methodologies, recommending and implementing improvements where appropriate. Ensure seamless integration of QA practices with CI/CD pipelines and other engineering processes. Technical Requirements 1. Experience: At least 7 years in software QA, with 3+ years in a leadership role. Extensive experience with manual and automated testing of web-based applications. 2. Technical Expertise: Proficiency in test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress) and API testing tools (e.g., Postman). Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including regression, performance, and security testing. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating testing processes. Working knowledge of programming languages like Python, Java, or JavaScript is a plus. 3. Tools and Frameworks: Experience with test management tools such as MS Azure DevOps. Familiarity with performance testing tools and practices is advantageous. 4. Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership and team management capabilities. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment. Why Join Tocan? At Tocan, we believe in empowering our team members to grow and excel in their careers. As the Head of Quality Assurance, you will have the opportunity to: Shape Organizational Quality: Define the QA strategy and processes for a cutting-edge SaaS platform. Lead Innovation: Drive the adoption of advanced tools, technologies, and practices to ensure world-class quality. Impact Business Outcomes: Play a critical role in enhancing customer satisfaction and driving business success. Career Growth: Be part of the executive leadership team, with opportunities to advance into broader strategic roles. Continuous Learning: Access training, certifications, and industry events to stay ahead in the field of QA. Join Tocan and Lead the Way in Delivering World-Class Software Solutions! Shape the future of fund investment and administration with Tocan by ensuring that quality remains at the core of everything we do. Disclaimer : Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners. Similar Jobs (2) Client Solutioning Manager locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago Implementation Execution Lead locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago We are dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fuelling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. Established in Bermuda in 2003, the Group has continually disrupted the asset serving industry through our investment in innovation and talent. Today, we set the pace in asset servicing and stand out for our unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals. We're a people-powered business, and our people are full of ambition. Together, we're inspired to lead the new era of data and tech enabled service. Bringing new products and services to market. Sharpening our client focus. Disrupting the market to exceed expectations. Innovating across a range of specialisms. With our focus on making a difference to our people, our planet and our society, you'll experience more here than you would at most other companies. Working at Apex Prepare to accelerate. We're a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We're expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We'll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster. Positive change starts with you. We're a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We're expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We'll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster. The journey is yours to own. When you stretch yourself, you grow. We want you to explore ways of working that will see you thrive as part of something bigger. We'll help you with a solid structure, challenging projects, vibrant networks, supportive colleagues and approachable leaders. All the things you need to own your unique journey.
Software Development QA Manager page is loaded Software Development QA Manager Apply remote type Hybrid locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id JR- The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers. Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion. That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply 'empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience. Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities. For our business, for clients, and for you About Tocan Tocan is a SaaS platform dedicated to simplifying the investment and administration of funds. With three distinct portals for Investors, Administrators, and Fund Managers, our mission is to deliver seamless, efficient, and intuitive solutions for onboarding and managing fund investments. At Tocan, we pride ourselves on fostering a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment where team members work closely with customers and end users to deliver meaningful impact. Role Overview As the Head of Quality Assurance, you will be responsible for defining, leading, and executing Tocan's quality assurance strategy. This role involves oversight of the QA team, ensuring the highest standards of software quality across our platform. The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader with a hands-on approach, capable of driving innovation, ensuring customer satisfaction, and embedding a culture of quality throughout the organization. Key Responsibilities 1. Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive QA strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and technology roadmaps. Establish and promote a culture of quality across the organization, emphasizing proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement. 2. Team Management: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing QA team, fostering professional growth and collaboration. Set clear goals and expectations for QA team members, monitoring performance and providing constructive feedback. 3. Process and Standards: Define and implement robust QA processes, methodologies, and tools to ensure efficient and effective testing practices. Drive the adoption of industry best practices in manual, automated, and performance testing. 4. Product Quality Oversight: Oversee all testing activities across the Investor, Administrator, and Fund Manager Portals, ensuring functionality, scalability, and reliability. Validate critical workflows and business scenarios to meet customer expectations and business requirements. 5. Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product management, and customer support teams to identify and address quality challenges. Act as the primary advocate for quality in cross-functional discussions and decision-making processes. 6. Metrics and Reporting: Define, track, and report on key quality metrics to measure success and identify areas for improvement. Present QA insights and progress to executive leadership, offering recommendations for enhancing overall product quality. 7. Innovation and Tooling: Stay abreast of emerging trends in QA tools, technologies, and methodologies, recommending and implementing improvements where appropriate. Ensure seamless integration of QA practices with CI/CD pipelines and other engineering processes. Technical Requirements 1. Experience: At least 7 years in software QA, with 3+ years in a leadership role. Extensive experience with manual and automated testing of web-based applications. 2. Technical Expertise: Proficiency in test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress) and API testing tools (e.g., Postman). Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including regression, performance, and security testing. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating testing processes. Working knowledge of programming languages like Python, Java, or JavaScript is a plus. 3. Tools and Frameworks: Experience with test management tools such as MS Azure DevOps. Familiarity with performance testing tools and practices is advantageous. 4. Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership and team management capabilities. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment. Why Join Tocan? At Tocan, we believe in empowering our team members to grow and excel in their careers. As the Head of Quality Assurance, you will have the opportunity to: Shape Organizational Quality: Define the QA strategy and processes for a cutting-edge SaaS platform. Lead Innovation: Drive the adoption of advanced tools, technologies, and practices to ensure world-class quality. Impact Business Outcomes: Play a critical role in enhancing customer satisfaction and driving business success. Career Growth: Be part of the executive leadership team, with opportunities to advance into broader strategic roles. Continuous Learning: Access training, certifications, and industry events to stay ahead in the field of QA. Join Tocan and Lead the Way in Delivering World-Class Software Solutions! Shape the future of fund investment and administration with Tocan by ensuring that quality remains at the core of everything we do. Disclaimer : Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners. Similar Jobs (2) Client Solutioning Manager locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago Implementation Execution Lead locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago We are dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fuelling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. Established in Bermuda in 2003, the Group has continually disrupted the asset serving industry through our investment in innovation and talent. Today, we set the pace in asset servicing and stand out for our unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals. We're a people-powered business, and our people are full of ambition. Together, we're inspired to lead the new era of data and tech enabled service. Bringing new products and services to market. Sharpening our client focus. Disrupting the market to exceed expectations. Innovating across a range of specialisms. With our focus on making a difference to our people, our planet and our society, you'll experience more here than you would at most other companies. Working at Apex Prepare to accelerate. We're a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We're expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We'll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster. Positive change starts with you. We're a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We're expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We'll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster. The journey is yours to own. When you stretch yourself, you grow. We want you to explore ways of working that will see you thrive as part of something bigger. We'll help you with a solid structure, challenging projects, vibrant networks, supportive colleagues and approachable leaders. All the things you need to own your unique journey.
Salary Finance
Hammersmith And Fulham, London
Salary 55,000 - 65,000 GBP per year Requirements: - ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing. Proven work experience in software testing in all its flavours: Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression and Performance testing. Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes in a SaaS / Cloud environment. Experience in writing clear and concise test plans and test cases. Minimum of 3-6 years Hands on experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, Maven, IntelliJ, Specflow and C# programming language. Working experience with the use of test automation tools for API testing such as postman and SwaggerUI. Experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines using AWS / Jenkins. Proven experience in architecturing, implementing and maintaining automation frameworks. Solid knowledge of SQL. Maintains an awareness of developing best practices and takes responsibility for driving their own personal development. Stakeholder management, able to build relationships and use expertise to influence and help colleagues use the tools to achieve their outcomes. Has a process orientated and systematic approach to planning and problem solving. Experience working in TDD and BDD test approaches and Agile/Scrum development process. Excellent communication, verbal and knowledge skills in problem analysis, risk management and continuous improvement. Responsibilities: - Implement the overall test approach; work effectively with the Head of QA to determine which types of testing are required and align the business and delivery team. Manage testing of all products and ensure acceptance criteria have met and obtain sign-off prior to LIVE deployment. Understand the overall product benefits and how the delivered solution impacts these; selects appropriate test approaches (e.g. risk based) to ensure delivery of benefits is not compromised. Maintain demand/supply for test resources and negotiates where demand outweighs supply. Ensures effective issue escalation to the Head of QA where there is a significant threat to delivery. Implements a well-structured approach to test defect management. Monitors and reports the status and progress of each test phase to different stakeholders and to agreed quality standards. Mentor and coach junior members of the team regarding best practices and cross skill team members in learning test automation. Technologies: - API - AWS - C# - CI/CD - Cloud - IntelliJ - ISTQB - Jenkins - Maven - Postman - SQL - Selenium - SpecFlow - TDD More: About SalaryFinance Salary Finance is a leading global FinTech platform. We support a community of 4M employees across 575 clients (inc 20% of the FTSE 100) in the UK and US, and provide a suite of financial employee benefits, to help employees improve their financial health and happiness. Our platform provides salary-linked savings, loans, pay advances, insurance and financial education. We have a team of 200 brilliant and passionate colleagues in 3 countries and have the backing of great investors (Blenheim Chalcot, Legal & General, Experian, Goldman Sachs, Royal London, Virgin Money) with £100M in equity and £500M in debt funding raised to-date. We have won over 70 awards for our work, including MoneyAge's Consumer Champion of the Year, Prince Charles' BITC Responsible Business of the Year, and the Global Impact Award from Sadiq Khan for our US growth. We were co-founded by entrepreneurs Asesh Sarkar (CEO), Daniel Shakhani, and former Head of Google UK and Ireland Dan Cobley (Chairman) and are authorised by the FCA. Your role in our mission We're looking for an exceptional Automation Engineer to join our testing team. Reporting into the Head of QA, and working closely with the Product Engineering team, you will work with the existing QA team to deliver an automation framework, drive strategic changes, measure quality and performance and support the team in their efforts to deliver the best platform possible. Who you are We embrace our differences but there's one thing we like to share our values, so it's important to us you are: fearless, and able to make the impossible possible. responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society. dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows. empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer. united, because you understand we achieve more when we work The essentials You are passionate about technology and social impact, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society. You are excited by the power of technology to change people's lives. You are resilient, empathetic, collaborative, detail-oriented, and self-motivated with excellent organisational, time and project management skills. You have the ability to work with employees at all levels of the organisation in an open office setting and a highly collaborative environment with a high growth, start-up mentality. You have the ability to deliver high quality systems and governance within a modern, commercial environment. You are a tech person at heart with a passion for high quality deliverables. You are a logical thinker, with strong analytical and problem solving skills, and a pro-active motivated approach to work. You have proven experience in test design and execution and management. You are a persuasive communicator, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to quickly learn technical methods and processes. You have an aptitude for software development / engineering. Technical experience required ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing. Proven work experience in software testing in all its flavours: Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression and Performance testing. Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes in a SaaS / Cloud environment. Experience in writing clear and concise test plans and test cases. Minimum of 3-6 years Hands on experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, Maven, IntelliJ, Specflow and C# programming language. Working experience with the use of test automation tools for API testing such as postman and SwaggerUI. Experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines using AWS / Jenkins. Proven experience in architecturing, implementing and maintaining automation frameworks. Solid knowledge of SQL. Maintains an awareness of developing best practices and takes responsibility for driving their own personal development. Stakeholder management, able to build relationships and use expertise to influence and help colleagues use the tools to achieve their outcomes. Has a process orientated and systematic approach to planning and problem solving. Experience working in TDD and BDD test approaches and Agile/Scrum development process. Excellent communication, verbal and knowledge skills in problem analysis, risk management and continuous improvement. Awesome if you You have experience in financial services or other regulated industries You have a degree in computer science or related field or a combination of related experience and education. What you'll do Implement the overall test approach; work effectively with the Head of QA to determine which types of testing are required and align the business and delivery team. Manage testing of all products and ensure acceptance criteria have met and obtain sign-off prior to LIVE deployment. Understand the overall product benefits and how the delivered solution impacts these; selects appropriate test approaches (e.g. risk based) to ensure delivery of benefits is not compromised. Maintain demand/supply for test resources and negotiates where demand outweighs supply. Ensures effective issue escalation to the Head of QA where there is a significant threat to delivery. Implements a well-structured approach to test defect management. Monitors and reports the status and progress of each test phase to different stakeholders and to agreed quality standards. Mentor and coach junior members of the team regarding best practices and cross skill team members in learning test automation. What's in it for you? Company bonus scheme 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday Hybrid working arrangements so you can work from the office and from home with a budget to help you get set up Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and Peternity leave Annual personal learning budget Great career development in a fast paced environment Regular company socials (post covid, although we've got quite good at virtual ones too!) Volunteer days as part of our CSR program Being part of a collaborative and entrepreneurial team working in our brand new, purpose-built offices at Scale Space, White City Being part of a community of Blenheim Chalcot-backed fintech growth businesses including ClearScore, Liberis, Kodoo and Modulr, with opportunities to share and learn together More great perks to include complimentary fresh fruit weekly, cycle to work, help to save and much more! We're looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team that are passionate about what they do. If you want to join a team that is changing people's lives for the better then we'd love to hear from you . click apply for full job details
Salary 55,000 - 65,000 GBP per year Requirements: - ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing. Proven work experience in software testing in all its flavours: Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression and Performance testing. Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes in a SaaS / Cloud environment. Experience in writing clear and concise test plans and test cases. Minimum of 3-6 years Hands on experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, Maven, IntelliJ, Specflow and C# programming language. Working experience with the use of test automation tools for API testing such as postman and SwaggerUI. Experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines using AWS / Jenkins. Proven experience in architecturing, implementing and maintaining automation frameworks. Solid knowledge of SQL. Maintains an awareness of developing best practices and takes responsibility for driving their own personal development. Stakeholder management, able to build relationships and use expertise to influence and help colleagues use the tools to achieve their outcomes. Has a process orientated and systematic approach to planning and problem solving. Experience working in TDD and BDD test approaches and Agile/Scrum development process. Excellent communication, verbal and knowledge skills in problem analysis, risk management and continuous improvement. Responsibilities: - Implement the overall test approach; work effectively with the Head of QA to determine which types of testing are required and align the business and delivery team. Manage testing of all products and ensure acceptance criteria have met and obtain sign-off prior to LIVE deployment. Understand the overall product benefits and how the delivered solution impacts these; selects appropriate test approaches (e.g. risk based) to ensure delivery of benefits is not compromised. Maintain demand/supply for test resources and negotiates where demand outweighs supply. Ensures effective issue escalation to the Head of QA where there is a significant threat to delivery. Implements a well-structured approach to test defect management. Monitors and reports the status and progress of each test phase to different stakeholders and to agreed quality standards. Mentor and coach junior members of the team regarding best practices and cross skill team members in learning test automation. Technologies: - API - AWS - C# - CI/CD - Cloud - IntelliJ - ISTQB - Jenkins - Maven - Postman - SQL - Selenium - SpecFlow - TDD More: About SalaryFinance Salary Finance is a leading global FinTech platform. We support a community of 4M employees across 575 clients (inc 20% of the FTSE 100) in the UK and US, and provide a suite of financial employee benefits, to help employees improve their financial health and happiness. Our platform provides salary-linked savings, loans, pay advances, insurance and financial education. We have a team of 200 brilliant and passionate colleagues in 3 countries and have the backing of great investors (Blenheim Chalcot, Legal & General, Experian, Goldman Sachs, Royal London, Virgin Money) with £100M in equity and £500M in debt funding raised to-date. We have won over 70 awards for our work, including MoneyAge's Consumer Champion of the Year, Prince Charles' BITC Responsible Business of the Year, and the Global Impact Award from Sadiq Khan for our US growth. We were co-founded by entrepreneurs Asesh Sarkar (CEO), Daniel Shakhani, and former Head of Google UK and Ireland Dan Cobley (Chairman) and are authorised by the FCA. Your role in our mission We're looking for an exceptional Automation Engineer to join our testing team. Reporting into the Head of QA, and working closely with the Product Engineering team, you will work with the existing QA team to deliver an automation framework, drive strategic changes, measure quality and performance and support the team in their efforts to deliver the best platform possible. Who you are We embrace our differences but there's one thing we like to share our values, so it's important to us you are: fearless, and able to make the impossible possible. responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society. dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows. empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer. united, because you understand we achieve more when we work The essentials You are passionate about technology and social impact, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society. You are excited by the power of technology to change people's lives. You are resilient, empathetic, collaborative, detail-oriented, and self-motivated with excellent organisational, time and project management skills. You have the ability to work with employees at all levels of the organisation in an open office setting and a highly collaborative environment with a high growth, start-up mentality. You have the ability to deliver high quality systems and governance within a modern, commercial environment. You are a tech person at heart with a passion for high quality deliverables. You are a logical thinker, with strong analytical and problem solving skills, and a pro-active motivated approach to work. You have proven experience in test design and execution and management. You are a persuasive communicator, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to quickly learn technical methods and processes. You have an aptitude for software development / engineering. Technical experience required ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing. Proven work experience in software testing in all its flavours: Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression and Performance testing. Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes in a SaaS / Cloud environment. Experience in writing clear and concise test plans and test cases. Minimum of 3-6 years Hands on experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, Maven, IntelliJ, Specflow and C# programming language. Working experience with the use of test automation tools for API testing such as postman and SwaggerUI. Experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines using AWS / Jenkins. Proven experience in architecturing, implementing and maintaining automation frameworks. Solid knowledge of SQL. Maintains an awareness of developing best practices and takes responsibility for driving their own personal development. Stakeholder management, able to build relationships and use expertise to influence and help colleagues use the tools to achieve their outcomes. Has a process orientated and systematic approach to planning and problem solving. Experience working in TDD and BDD test approaches and Agile/Scrum development process. Excellent communication, verbal and knowledge skills in problem analysis, risk management and continuous improvement. Awesome if you You have experience in financial services or other regulated industries You have a degree in computer science or related field or a combination of related experience and education. What you'll do Implement the overall test approach; work effectively with the Head of QA to determine which types of testing are required and align the business and delivery team. Manage testing of all products and ensure acceptance criteria have met and obtain sign-off prior to LIVE deployment. Understand the overall product benefits and how the delivered solution impacts these; selects appropriate test approaches (e.g. risk based) to ensure delivery of benefits is not compromised. Maintain demand/supply for test resources and negotiates where demand outweighs supply. Ensures effective issue escalation to the Head of QA where there is a significant threat to delivery. Implements a well-structured approach to test defect management. Monitors and reports the status and progress of each test phase to different stakeholders and to agreed quality standards. Mentor and coach junior members of the team regarding best practices and cross skill team members in learning test automation. What's in it for you? Company bonus scheme 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday Hybrid working arrangements so you can work from the office and from home with a budget to help you get set up Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and Peternity leave Annual personal learning budget Great career development in a fast paced environment Regular company socials (post covid, although we've got quite good at virtual ones too!) Volunteer days as part of our CSR program Being part of a collaborative and entrepreneurial team working in our brand new, purpose-built offices at Scale Space, White City Being part of a community of Blenheim Chalcot-backed fintech growth businesses including ClearScore, Liberis, Kodoo and Modulr, with opportunities to share and learn together More great perks to include complimentary fresh fruit weekly, cycle to work, help to save and much more! We're looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team that are passionate about what they do. If you want to join a team that is changing people's lives for the better then we'd love to hear from you . click apply for full job details
