Software Automation Team Lead at Featurespace

Job Description:

As a Software Automation Team Lead for the Functional Validation team, we want you to lead the functional side of the Validation team, assuring high quality standards across our testing frameworks, quality cycles, and working interfaces alongside other teams from Engineering and Delivery.

As a team lead you will work closely with the Head of Validation to push forward initiatives to increase the confidence of our quality for internal and external customers.

• Focusing on the quality of our product through validating features with end-to-end functional manual and automated tests – this involves working alongside Developers and QA Engineers to ensure full integration of each new feature
• Working efficiently with Release Engineering and Delivery by looking after the Continuous Integration and releases
• Having a high-level overview of new features in ARIC in order to add appropriate test coverage
• Supporting our Delivery department – helping to investigate failures and provide new functionalities to help with the release process
• Lead level Engineering responsibilities such as team level prioritisation and scheduling of work, line managing team members, championing processes, and taking operational responsibility

Must haves:

• Our ideal candidate will have strong practical experience with developing automation tests using Object Oriented Programming such as Java and C# – you will need to know and understand fundamental OOP principles, experience with BDD Cucumber and Selenium won’t be sufficient Previous management/leadership or mentoring experience
• Working experience with testing tools such as TestNG, Junit, Nunit
• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications
• Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• External API integration
• Code profiling and performance tuning

Great to haves:

• Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases for large datasets
• Web services – HTTP API development
• Message queueing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
• Cloud platforms and automation

Company Benefits

• A 4% matched pension scheme
• Growth share equity scheme
• Quarterly discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave + UK Bank Holidays
• Training, development, and mentoring schemes
• Discounted gym membership and free daily exercise classes
• Career growth and training opportunities
• Private healthcare scheme with Vitality
• Death in Service scheme
• Regular social events
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Free weekly takeaway lunches at our Cambridge, London & Atlanta offices
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Fridges packed full of edible treats and drinks for lunches and snacks

Interview Process

1.Initial screening call with Recruitment

2.A phone/zoom interview with the hiring manager

3.A longer technical interview with multiple team members, including a technical presentation