QA Team Lead

QA Team Lead Role @ Coats Digital
Engineering department

Location 

Work from Home

Hours 

Full Time

Role Purpose 

At Coats Digital, we build SaaS (software as a service) applications running on Azure under continuous delivery using .NET and/or Ruby technologies. Our customers work in the fashion industry (Brands and Manufacturers), and we help them in several fields like planning, costing, scientific calculations and optimising their operations.

As a QA Automation Tester, you will be part of a team that builds and maintains our application ecosystems.

Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities

• Test cloud-native applications.
• Lead both manual and automated test process and delivery.
• Participate in project planning, software design, and DevOps build activities.
• Convert discussed stories into appropriate tests.
• Build and maintain DevOps processes that produce all stages of the system.
• Maintain the relevant documentation systems.
• Report progress, challenges, and risks at regular intervals.
• Become a reliable and influential member of the team.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential 

• Be recognised as a QA Team Lead.
• Have demonstrable manual and automated experience.
• Have some formal technology training or prior commercial experience.
• Demonstrable database skills.
• Be analytical and have excellent problem-solving skills
• Open to learning modern technology/languages and taking advantage of our training budgets.
• Understand SaaS application design patterns and practices.
• Working experience in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
• Willing to be part of a team.

Desirable 

• Microsoft DevOps (dev.azure.com) skills
• Fashion industry experience
• Manufacturing experience