About Roq Roq is an independent, outcome focused Quality Engineering consultancy. We provide a truly independent view on all things quality to the world’s largest organisations on their most important technology initiatives. We help them to realise the benefits of high-functioning, high-quality technology solutions, delivered at a pace that aligns with their business imperatives. This is something we’ve been proudly doing since 2009. Everything we do is built on our amazing culture and living and breathing our core values of Straight Talking, Passionate, Excellence and Commitment. Our happy and dedicated team are motivated by making a real difference in the lives of our clients, colleagues, and the community. About the Role As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for test preparation, including specification, and subsequent execution and reporting for assigned area(s) of functionality. You will support the Lead Quality Engineer in the initial planning for the test phase. The Senior Quality Engineer will ensure that best practice is followed in testing activities and that the necessary rigour required is applied in all aspects of the testing in their assigned area. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you provide support, help and guidance to more junior colleagues working with you. You will support the wider team by thinking innovatively about how best to test the solution and what may be required to facilitate testing. To work across all key test phases To review programme/project documentation that will form the test basis and provide appropriate feedback to strengthen these documents (static testing) To lead test specification activity for the allocated areas of functionality, providing support, help and guidance to peers and more junior colleagues Drive out test conditions from key documents that form the test basis (seeking clarification where necessary), identify and design test scenarios, test data and test cases to cover these Supporting execution for all testing phases, including UAT and Live Proving Provide leadership, feedback, mentoring and coaching to other analysts as required Ensure test artefacts produced are reviewed appropriately To triage, monitor and report defects To provide accurate reporting against progress for the allocated areas of functionality or test phases To support Roq QE Ecosystem, QE Principles, and our values across the business and externally. Any other duties deemed necessary by the company What we look for PASSIONATE Experience in working in a Senior Quality Engineer position across a number of programmes including all key test phases A keen interest in software testing and the testing community EXCELLENCE ISTQB Foundation level certified (or equivalent) Strong level of practical exposure to industry leading testing tools and capability to exploit further tools as required The skills to specify the test data required for the areas of functionality allocated and secure/prepare elements of this data where necessary COMMITMENT Ability to work across multiple projects and manage the workload effectively in order to meet deadlines Experience of working in waterfall, agile and hybrid/custom testing environments STRAIGHT TALKING Relationship building skills to work closely with Business Analysts, technical resources and Subject Matter Experts to ensure test preparation is appropriate and gives desired coverage Experienced in liaising with clients and resolving any queries according to client requirements DESIRABLE Experience leading testing teams Agile training or certification Experience of test automation including building automation frameworks Postman knowledge SQL knowledge ALM Tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps, Eggplant, SpiraTeam)