The Lead QA Engineer will define automation strategies, develop frameworks, mentor team members, and manage testing across diverse projects in the retail technology sector.
- Permanent, Full-Time role
- Salary: £50k - £65k per annum (depending on experience)
Direct applicants only, no agencies please as we have preferred suppliers already.
Spike are retail technology experts delivering end-to-end, go-live confidence for the biggest retail brands. Learn more about us here.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Spike at a time when we are growing our testing practice.
We are looking for Lead QA Engineers to join us working across our growing client portfolio on different projects using a wide variety of test automation solutions, technologies, and tools. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of both manual testing and test automation across different clients and applications, the ability to work in complex and challenging environments, and strong stakeholder management skills.
Key responsibilities:
- Works autonomously and acts as a senior providing technical advice, uses a wide variety of technical solutions, technologies, and tools
- Leads technical areas within projects using available frameworks to meet project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals
- Identify and recommend the automated testing processes and tools
- Define automated testing solutions for a wide range of technologies used on our various client engagements
- Create Test Automation frameworks
- Develop automated test suites
- Lead, guide, train, and mentor other Spike consultants on the project
Required skills:
- Proven experience in defining and developing test automation strategies and/or approaches for multiple projects
- Exposure to web and API test automation tools and engineering approaches including CI/CD
- Hands-on technical design/development experience in tools using a variety of different coding languages such as Java, C#, Python, JavaScript
- Agile Software Development Lifecycle Processes and Methodologies
- BDD experience with exposure to either Cucumber/Specflow or Gherkin
- Previous experience working in the retail industry (optional)
Desirable skills:
- Salesforce (Commerce Cloud/Service Cloud)
- Mulesoft
- Netsuite
- Other retail platforms including MACH/Shopify front ends, payments, warehousing or merchandising platforms
What we offer:
- Personal relationships - We know each other as individuals with social meet ups at least quarterly and a Director open door policy
- Technical consultancy - Challenging technical work with varied projects/clients and internal knowledge management forums
- True flexibility - Remote first approach delivering as teams for clients with expenses paid if needed to travel away from home
- Shared purpose - Owned by practicing consultants with a hand-picked client base in line with Spike principles
- Pick and mix benefits – Generous annual benefits allowance giving you the power to choose how and when you engage with benefits including modern perks & discounts
- Genuine support – Career coach assigned on joining with career chats when you want them
As well as:
- Competitive pay packages
- Annual leave entitlement of 25 days + statutory public holidays
- Day off for your birthday
- L&D allowance and training days
- Pension with auto-enrolment to pension scheme after 1 month
Spike is an equal opportunities employer
Top Skills
C#
Cucumber
Java
JavaScript
Python
Specflow
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