Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

About Punch:

Punch is a full-service digital agency on a mission to build the best digital experiences. We are looking to hire an experienced Lead QA Engineer to help us keep growing our team. Apply today!

What we look for:

We value the ability to adapt to change and a desire for professional growth. We work hard to provide our talent opportunities to grow their skills through meaningful work.

Come build with us!

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for initiating and ensuring the technical and delivery-facing leadership for all aspects of QA engineering at the portfolio level.
• Initiating test automation and test engineering practices, including aspects of ‘software development in test’.
• Reading, writing, and debugging code in complex programs and supporting the refactoring of existing test frameworks – supporting other members of the team to do the same.
• Initiating the use and reuse of a broad range of tools, including open source and cloud-based.
• Initiating the delivery of test engineering, typically using agile and CI/CD methods including influencing how the teams develop user stories and acceptance criteria, typically deploying Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Building QAT service capability and coaching others to help improve QAT-wide practices to support the digital service standard, often working as part of a multi-disciplinary team focused on user needs and user-centered design.

Skills Required:

• Extensive hands-on test experience within Agile projects, with a strong understanding of the Sprint, CI, and release testing lifecycles.
• Extensive automation experience and the ability to specify, develop, and implement automation frameworks and advice on industry best practices.
• Experience in leading teams.
• Proactive in managing test dependencies, coordinating test coverage, and execution.
• Knowledge and experience of working with Open Source tools and Cloud-based services including Cucumber, Gherkin, Jasmine, Cypress, WebDriver, Jenkins/Drone/Gitlab, and REST libraries (RESTAssured, Karate, etc).
• Experience of containerized techniques, using Docker, and Cloud-Based Hosting
• Demonstrable experience in working with microservice architectures and data services
• Defining and advising on test scope, approach, risks, and assumptions across DevOps and agile testing.
• Ability to work with all relevant parties (project, supplier technical teams, internal technical teams, service delivery, and so forth) to ensure an effective test service is maintained throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.

Job Type: Full-time

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