Test Specialist, IT​/Tech

Test Specialist
Location
:
London

Duration
: 12 months

Clearance
: DV Clearance required

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If you're passionate about engineering quality for business-critical services-and you thrive in structured, high-impact programmes-this is a fantastic opportunity to support a team focused on safeguarding critical national infrastructure. Hiring for a reputed client, you'll lead QA strategy and bring clarity, confidence and rigour to testing delivery.

• Lead and execute product quality strategies for the clients service offerings and products
• Design test strategies for business-critical initiatives, helping deliver time, cost and quality across multiple work streams
• Execute testing activities including test case creation, diagnostics, and test data strategy for a portfolio
• Account for first/second level diagnostics to enable smooth test delivery
• Lead full lifecycle integration testing to support complex projects and drive required deliverables
• Contribute to the design and development of test automation solutions to validate application functionality
• Perform complex defect and issue analysis-identifying impacts and root causes, then defining advanced solutions
• Share knowledge and continuously develop team capability in line with emerging QA engineering trends and best practices
• Mentor other QA engineers as a technical resource

• Strong test management, test planning and test case design/writing experience
• Experience with functional and non-functional testing
• Experience with test management tooling such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with automated test tools and supporting test automation
• Ansible coding experience
• OSI model awareness
• Experience working on complex, large-scale programmes
• Awareness of ISO 9001 and ISO 29119
• ISTQB certification
• DV cleared