Your new company
Our client are an industry leading, financial services organisation based in Leeds, who continue to grow and are in the Top 3 within what they do.

Your new role
The focus of this role will be the design, maintenance and programming of computer systems. The Senior Test Engineer will take a lead role in ensuring the delivery of high quality products and services through the application of professional testing techniques, knowledge and best practices.

• Work with project team and business roles throughout the development lifecycle to define test scenarios and acceptance criteria for the evolving solution
• Carry out testing throughout the development lifecycle, both exploratory, scripted and automated using a variety of tools and techniques, and covering both functional and non-functional requirements
• Provide rapid feedback and information to the project team and business roles to allow appropriate corrections and decisions to be made. For example through defect raising, re-testing, verbal feedback and test, code and requirement reviews
• Assist in the extensive, yet appropriate, automation of tests to deliver maximum repeatability and efficiency
• Mentor and coach members of the team to ensure everyone is working to, and improving on, high standards

What you'll need to succeed

• Extensive experience of test automation techniques

• Mentoring skills, including ability to motivate and coach others
• Experience of BDD/TDD techniques
• Technical skills related to test automation
• API/Web service testing experience
• Experience of performance/load/security/usability testing
• Use of test management tools (e.g. HP Quality Center, Microsoft TFS 2010)
• Use of automated test tools (e.g. HP QTP, Selenium, SoapUI)
• Use of agile acceptance test tools (e.g. SpecFlow, Fitnesse, Cucumber)

What you need to do now
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