Test Lead

Sector:
IT
Job Type:
Full Time
Region:
London
County:
Inner London

Town/City:
London
Description:
Competitive

Experienced Test Lead required by insurance finance provider based in Central London W1. Competitive salary offered depending on skills and experience
 
We provide a Premium Finance software platform and funding to insurance brokers and insurers, allowing the brokers and insurers to offer insurance premium finance to their customers. Insurance premium finance is a loan facility that allows customers to pay for their annual insurance premiums via monthly instalment payments.
 
Due to current business growth, we are now looking to hire an Experienced Test Lead to fit into the existing team and bolster the development and testing side of the finance application, including but not limited to the API layer and the core webservices technology.
 
All the development is done in house and is Java based. Most testing is currently done using SOAP UI. There is an agile scrum team in place and additional development and testing resources are being added, to separate the production support workload from the core new development projects.
 
Tech Stack:
Java 1.5-1.8 : Spring framework (MVC, Web Services, REST) : REST : Hibernate : SQL, PL/SQL : XSL, XML, XSD : JAXB, SAX : JPA : Maven : Oracle (9-12) : Tomcat ( 5-8 ) : Unix (Solaris & Redhat) : Eclipse : GIT
 
Nice to Have Experience of:
Python : Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean) : Jenkins : Pro-c : SAAS : JMeter
 
General Key Responsibilities and goals will include, but not be limited to:
-Add value and increase throughput of the existing development and test team
-Implement the use of automation to see if an automated test harness / framework would increase the efficiencies and effectiveness of testing whilst ensuring the quality of their software is not compromised.
-Implement an automated regression test harness to provide a scalable, re usable automated regression test capability, that will be maintained and run in-house.
 
Ideally the successful applicant will possess the below skills and experience:
-Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written, are essential
-Previous experience working with premium finance, insurance or financial services (desirable)
-Willingness to work in a team
-Ability to work to deadlines, along with the flexibility to manage changing priorities and the ability to multi-task
-Proven ability to sustain high level of performance under pressure and remain focused
-Ability to self-motivate, self-manage and work both autonomously and as part of a team
 
Apply Now with your CV and a Covering Note and we look forward to hearing from you

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