Test Lead

Role overview

Key duties include

• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of a team of Test Engineers.
• Plan, organise and monitor test execution to ensure delivery against agreed schedules.
• Working within Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery environments.
• Review test cases, test procedures and test evidence before execution.
• Drive test automation initiatives and identify opportunities to increase automation coverage across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Ensure requirements are traceable through test cases and execution results.
• Support the preparation of System Test plans, Daily/Weekly Test Status Reports and progress updates.
• Coordinate defect management activities and ensure issues are correctly recorded, prioritised, tracked through to resolution and perform root cause analysis.
• Support the commissioning, configuration and maintenance of test environments, laboratory equipment and test assets.
• Ensure testing activities comply with project processes, quality standards and safety requirements.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring and knowledge sharing to Test Engineers.
• Work closely with Engineering, Development and Project teams to support successful project delivery.
• Support customer demonstrations, witness testing and operational readiness activities where required.
• Drive continuous improvement of testing processes, tools and working practices.
• Supervise maintenance of test assets such as devices and technical tooling
• Collaborate closely with Environment and Infrastructure teams
• Coach the team in the use of management tools: Requirements, Test, Defects, Knowledge
• Ensure compliance with Testing Management Plan and System Test Strategy
• Analyze testing inputs in the form of technical documentation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/ software engineering/ Electronic Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 8+ years of software and/or hardware experience including at least 3 years of proven experience in leading day-to-day System Test activities within complex software or systems integration programmes.
• Mandatory Certifications: ISTQB Foundation
• Strong experience preparing, reviewing and executing System Test plans, test cases and test procedures.
• Experience coordinating small technical teams and allocating testing activities.
• Strong understanding of functional testing, defect management, software testing methodologies and quality assurance principles.
• Experience working with test management tools such as TestRail, Jira, Confluence or equivalent.
• Experience supporting test environments, laboratory equipment, PCI equipment and engineering test facilities.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirables

Benefits

• Holidays: 25 days per annum + 8 days bank holidays (options to buy/sell days).
• Pension – 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Private medical insurance (including dental & optical).
• Life assurance.
• Income protection.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Flexible/remote working options.
• Charitable initiatives.
• Social events (formal & informal).
• Learning and development programs.
• Innovative & collaborative work environment.
• Indra is an equal employment opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, origin, disability or other characteristics protected by law.