Software Test Lead Consultant

at  Sogeti

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Ability to lead a team in doing test cases, test data preparation, execution & reporting with hands on leadership.
• Ability to review non-functional requirements and specifications to ensure clarity and testability.
• Skill in developing and updating test cases and scripts based on thorough analysis of test requirements.
• Proficient in preparing test data, executing test cases, and logging results.
• Capability to conduct defect analysis and reporting, including re-testing for fixes.
• Ability to submit daily status updates and metrics to project leads.
• Experience engaging in peer reviews to enhance the quality of testing deliverables.
• Strong understanding of both functional and non-functional aspects of the solution, including testing landscape and assurance requirements.
• Review non-functional requirements and specifications to verify that they are unambiguous and testable.
• Build solid understanding of solution in terms of functional & non-functional aspects of the solution, test landscape & required test assurance
• Pro-actively work towards building robust test activities to achieve success of the project.
• Lead the Team training & Test Preparation activities proactively
• Identify and finalise solid Regression test pack + Additional tests to achieve required coverage
• Log the results of the tests and compile test results for technical test exit report.
• Document defects discovered during the running of the tests.
• Work with the hardware, Infrastructure and software Technical Teams and Leads as deemed necessary to help them rectify issues encountered during testing.
• To support daily test report to management team

MANDATORY SKILLS

• Good understanding of using command Line tools & Linux Command Line.
• Good understanding and Experience of smart meter network ecosystem
• Previous experience of working with Energy suppliers Gas & Electricity
• Good understanding of non-functional aspects of IT systems.
• Good understanding of Performance, Resilience, Monitoring, Operational Readiness
• Good understanding of AWS cloud
• Experience in defect lifecycle
• Experience in testing failover, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Restore, Batch
• Schedule, Operability, Alert/Monitoring, Performance Testing
• Experience of using monitoring tool such as App Dynamics, Ops View
• Experience in testing and proving service continuity planning, contributing to operational readiness.
• Experience in producing test plan and test run plan, execution of tests and reporting.
• Experience across the following aspects of Testing: Unit, Functional, Integration, UAT, and OPT (Operational Process Testing) and SCT (System Capacity Testing)
• Experience in ALM Test Plan and Test Lab and defect management
• Able to document defects within a system (JIRA) and to determine the appropriate actions required.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner)
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, SoapUI).
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• The candidate must be eligible for Security Clearance (SC) for this project. This requires a minimum of five consecutive years of residency in the UK, with no single period of absence from the country exceeding 28 days during that time.

Please refer the Job description for details