Test Engineering Lead

The Role

The role of Test Engineering Lead (Automation & Tooling) is a leadership engineering position, with a focus on implementing our strategy across self-managed teams.

Leading on improvement initiatives, coaching and for driving standards, technology and innovation across the test engineering function and within value streams and platforms.

You will:

• Pro-actively contribute towards our Agile test engineering strategy, as well as our engineering principles, practices, and standards.
• Deliver as part of the test engineering leadership team and Centre of Expertise to suggest, implement and effect change on processes, practices, tooling and raising awareness across key initiatives to deliver our test engineering transformation strategy.
• Deploy and lead test engineers within systems teams to testing and quality solutions.
• Participate in the innovation and continuous improvement process to meet the changing demands of the business and emerging industry trends and standards.
• Recruitment and line management of senior test engineers.
• Collaborate with the value streams and platform teams to promote enterprise shift-left techniques and provide risk assessment to determine test types required and automation approach.
• Initiate and lead strategic quality initiatives within our engineering function.
• Provide leadership and guidance to teams, coaching and mentoring team members to aid continuous improvement.
• Contribute to resource management and capacity planning to support delivery schedule.
• Work effectively within the department troubleshooting and resolving business critical challenges.

What you’ll bring

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.

• Extensive experience defining and owning the delivery of test engineering and capability in medium to large organisations.
• Experience of delivering in agile environment with a focus on embedding a continuous testing approach into the SDLC.
• An ability to convert thought leadership on testing and quality solutions and processes to improve the Tesco Bank Test and Quality Assurance Practice.
• Experience and understanding of defining and implementing automation frameworks
• A clear view of how to train and enhance the skills of our people to deliver in a continuous testing model
• Strong leadership in challenging situations #LI-KP1