Your Role
As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, reporting to the Head of Architecture and DevOps, you鈥檒l help to lead our QA and testing community, define robust strategies, and drive automation excellence across our products. You鈥檒l mentor others, champion best practices, and ensure our solutions meet the highest standards of quality and performance. The role is based in Leicester and is on a permanent basis.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the QA and testing community.
- To formulate a robust and scalable testing strategy.
- Provide guidance, support, knowledge and mentorship to more junior members.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, quality and technical excellence.
- Advocate for best practices in test automation and test performance.
- Ensure documentation is maintained, clear and comprehensive.
- Drive continuous improvement within the community.
- Maintain and further develop our automated end-to-end workflow tests.
- Define and document test plans based on system use cases.
- Configure tests to run against different customer configuration and environments.
- Monitor test runs and raise any issues with the relevant development team(s).
- Monitor system performance and highlight areas where improvements should be prioritised.
- Liaise with development teams to ensure proper guidelines exist to ensure microservices are thoroughly and consistently tested at the API level.
- Provide guidance and input into unit testing practices, to ensure governance across all product testing.
- Engage with other roles such as Product Owners, Business Analysts and Architects to understand testing requirements needed to cover both functional product goals and non-functional technical strategy.
- Ensure that customer facing test reports are produced for release candidates as a result of regression testing.
- Collaborate with other TBA / Konecranes departments and third-party vendors to assist with both testing individual integrations and with testing the entire solution.
- Periodically assist with penetration testing of our front-end applications.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, evaluate and recommend any emerging testing technologies that would be beneficial to the company.