Senior Technical Test Engineer

The Opportunity

Working as a Senior Technical Test Engineer primarily within an IT product team or on business change projects as part of a team, to ensure the quality and functionality of products, support change projects with delivery of testing deliverables and co-ordinating testers and being able to purposely design appropriate testing strategies and frameworks.

Key responsibilities of the role include

• Work with an established team of Testers, Developers and Product Managers within a Product Team or supporting business and IT change projects.
• Deliver testing deliverables on change projects using testing methods and practices.
• Co-ordinate testing activities and less experienced testers, whilst being able to manage up.
• Adhere to established testing processes throughout the various phases of a Waterfall project.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives.
• Analyse testing inputs, such as business and technical requirements.
• Prepare detailed test conditions and test scripts.
• Execute test scripts, accurately recording all test results.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working.

About you

The successful candidate will have

• Certifications such as ISTQB accreditation, Agile, DevOps etc.
• TOSCA Certifications
• Strong manual testing skills and experience
• Ability to work within cross-functional product teams
• Solid understanding and experience with both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (Zephyr, JIRA)
• Understanding of risk-based testing practices to focus efforts on critical areas
• Proven experience in managing automation for testing functions/portfolio.
• Expertise in automating complex, multi-platform distributed applications.
• Excellent knowledge of market standard automation & CICD tools ( Selenium, Tosca, Playwright, Jenkins, GitHub , Maven etc.)
• Very good knowledge of AI & Cloud based technologies (Azure, AWS , GitHub Co-Pilot etc.) to implement as needed

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site Careers | Ashurst Perkins Coie