Lead QA Engineer

• 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