3 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Birmingham, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide test leadership and direction within a multi-skilled software team.
- Develop testing strategy and ensure adequate coverage across application layers.
- Design, create, and maintain automated, manual, and non-functional tests.
- Configure testing tools within a continuous integration environment.
- Deliver working, sufficiently tested application software that meets user needs.
- Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, including setting objectives, giving feedback, and leading performance reviews.
- Interact with customers, share knowledge, and mentor colleagues.
Requirements
- Experience applying software testing principles and practices to ensure adequate test-layer coverage.
- Expertise designing, creating, and maintaining manual and automated test scripts and approaches, including non-functional testing.
- Experience with open-source test automation technologies such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, or Cypress.
- Experience configuring Jenkins and/or TeamCity for testing within continuous integration.
- Practical knowledge of at least one object-oriented programming language, such as Java.
- Strong technical awareness and understanding of software architectures.
- Experience managing others, setting objectives, giving feedback, and leading performance reviews.
- Desirable: experience as a Test Lead or similar on a medium-to-large Agile project.
- Desirable: stakeholder management and commercial awareness.
- Desirable: experience in defence, health, or public-sector environments.
About Kainos
Kainos is a Belfast-headquartered, publicly listed IT services company that designs and delivers digital services and Workday solutions for public, healthcare and commercial clients. Its business includes agile software engineering, cloud and data platforms, systems integration, and a Workday implementation and testing practice (including the Smart automated testing product). Founded in 1986 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Kainos operates across the UK, Europe and North America.