Lead Software Tester. LilyLifestyle

Lead Software Tester

5 days per week in offices in Whiteley and paying to £70k per annum.

We are recruiting for a global Software company that is well-established in Fintech Software Systems. They are in the process of changing their current testing team to improve the way they automate their software development, test and release of new software applications related to recent acquisitions and international projects.

The client builds applications using C#, .Net core, SQL Server, Azure, Azure Dev Ops and JavaScript with a test team in the UK and an outsourced team.

They are looking for a Lead Tester who will manage a small test team, manage software release functions, and also provide hands‑on software testing tasks.

This role will be to work across a software test team that manually tests their UI, API and Database applications and help them start the journey of automating the testing of their Web, Mobile and a couple of legacy Desktop applications as part of their product suite.

• Release Planning:
  Owning the end‑to‑end release schedule, including managing release readiness reviews and go/no‑go decisions.
• Testing Strategy:
  Defining and overseeing test strategies (unit, integration, UAT) to ensure quality and compliance.
• Testing:
  Driving test automation across business and overseeing manual test tasks of teams.
• Release Management:
  Coordinating the release of software across environments (development, test, production).
• Risk Management:
  
  Identifying risks and managing software production readiness.

This role is working Monday to Friday (UK office hours) in their Whiteley offices.

Please send your CV for interviews.