This role is based in our Leeds office. We have a hybrid working model of 3 days together, 2 days wherever.
Why this job matters
In this job, you’ll be responsible for the test automation approach and methodology for quality assurance of BT/EE platform solutions. You’ll provide technical leadership and strategic direction to automation or QA engineers, resolving the test project issues, and ensuring effective test process improvement feedback. You’ll be critical in ensuring that test architecture and test plans are up to date relative to changes in the Digital landscape. You’ll confidently lead and share knowledge with a team of engineers.
You’ll also be involved in planning and monitoring the execution of automation tests in a CI/CD environment. You’ll define the automation first approach within development sprints, identify issues with the manual activities whilst using your own initiative to find the right solution for any faults found in dev, test and production.
Excellent communication skills are required as you will be liaising with the wider engineering team including operations and product teams. You will also be responsible for implementing the latest technology, in line with our continuous integration and delivery goals. Working collaboratively across both QA and Engineering to achieve testability, maintainability and scalability of our software products, providing technical guidance and coaching throughout.
What you’ll be doing
* Define the test automation driven QA approach and methodology for BT/EE platform solutions.
* Be Agile, Test Driven, and a highly technical tester.
* Steer the direction of the automation test framework.
* Work directly with Technical Architects to define the automation approach, write test plans, and deliver hands-on technical contributions, whether that be API testing or building test frameworks from scratch.
* Analyse competitive products and technologies with appropriate suggestions to influence product/technology direction.
* Collaborate with test and development engineers on application & testing architecture, ensuring that the approaches and technologies applied to the current implementation are sound and fit for purpose.
* Coordinate the tasks within sprints and look for ways to automate manual activities within the software delivery process.
* Design/architect and implement a regular robust full build/deploy/test automation process across our digital platforms along with subsystem integrations.
* Coordinate test automation activities within projects, including planning and delivering the test phases on time and within budget while meeting all quality objectives.
* Understand programming principles and best practices (e.g. DRY, SOLID for creating reusable code, best practices, etc.).
* Own the end-to-end code quality and code performance KPIs.
* Proactively monitor Production estate code.
Skills and Experience
Must have
* Experience architecting and building test automation frameworks.
* Experience with BDD or TDD.
* Experience working with offshore and onshore teams.
* Test ownership and planning experience across major IT projects & programmes.
* Overall testing strategies and implementation experience.
Nice to have
* ISTQB (Advanced).
* Experience with cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, etc.
* TMMi experience or certification.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck into tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, and make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
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