Lead SDET/QA
Skills
JavaJavascriptSoftware DevelopmentSoftware TestingFunctional TestingIntegration TestingMicroservices
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills to mentor and guide team members in testing methodologies and best practices
- Develop and implement test strategies, methodologies, and processes tailored for high throughput for web and microservices-based architectures and event-driven systems
- Lead efforts to automate testing of microservices, RESTful APIs, gRPC services, and event-driven systems using industry-standard automation tools and frameworks
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, REST principles, gRPC protocol, and event-driven systems
- Must have strong programming skills with a solid knowledge of Java and ideally JS
- Must have knowledge of software testing methodologies like Behavior-Driven Development and testing principles, such as functional testing, component testing, integration testing, regression testing, and performance testing
- Have practical experience with Contract Testing using Pact
- Are very familiar with performance & load testing tools, ideally Gatling
- Understand the Agile software development life cycle, DevOps Approach & Continuous Testing
- Can mentor engineering teams, assist them by identifying testing goals and needs, and drive a culture of knowledge sharing in order to close knowledge gaps
- Can help foster an environment of psychological safety that enables team members to thrive.
Nice to have
- Experience in Payments or a FinTech industry
- High degree of empathy and situational awareness
Day to day
- You will be central to defining and executing our automation testing strategy so that our platform and services are available when customers want to use them.
- Responsible for designing, co-developing, and automating software test plans and test cases, leading and guiding the testing efforts of the team.
- Champion continuous improvement through experimentation, retrospection, and innovation.
- Ensure that our testing processes remain at the forefront of industry standards.
