The Edenred Digital Center (EDC) in Bucharest, Romania is Edenred Group's largest Digital hub for strategic Tech projects.

Context/ ROLE

As part of the company’s digital transformation, Edenred has launched a major program together with Paytech.

Paytech, an alliance between Edenred and MasterCard Worldwide, is a one-stop-shop for payment programmes. We are a MasterCard Principal Member and a full e‐money issuer, offering a range of services. We are unique as we process from a single global in-house processing platform and offering integration with Apple, Google and Samsung Pay services. We provide services to major international clients and consumers across a wide range of industries, including retail, finance, travel, telco and FINTECH

We are looking for a QA Automation Team Lead, to be a member of the Paytech Team.

Position SCOPE & Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to Software Development Manager and QA Manager, the QA Team Lead would be responsible for:

• Act as a QA Team Lead for Products or small projects on all functional testing areas within Paytech. Lead a team(s) of QA resources (QA Engineers), working closely with Non-Functional and Technical Test Leads to ensure best and most effective testing approach is undertaken including data creation, to ensure quality throughout the delivery.
• Provide input to and enhancing our QA and Testing processes plus help drive efficiencies from within.
• Identify and highlight any risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies within the product stream or functional area.
• Identify training or mentoring needs for existing QA Engineers to be effective in their QA & testing roles.
• Actively manage QA resources to ensure manual and/or automation testing activities are aligned to the defined principles, frameworks or procedures.
• Coordinating all data test activities within your stream/functional area. Involving developers, business analysts, (possibly test partners and other 3rd party vendors) as required to deliver the right outcome.
• Take a more hands-on approach to testing to improve throughput and demonstrate effective testing methods directly to your team or via mentoring.

Key result areas:

• Quality assurance of all development artefacts around new features developed or fixes within the product areas or platform
• Take the functional lead of new approaches and continued improvement to testing practices;
• Produce quality metrics for releases Software meets or exceeds published metrics and quality benchmarks, quality delivery;
• Proactively contribute to the technical evolution of Paytech products and services
• Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to more junior QA engineers as required
• Work to and provide some input to the overall test strategy or approach as required
• Where applicable, identify and communicate any deviations needed for product or project testing, agree the approach with the QA Engineering manager and QA Lead;
• Responsible for the delivery of testing activities within the feature/workstream you’re managing. Help define test data needs during test preparation for your feature/workstream. Lead test scoping, test script creation and quality within product area and Projects.
• Provide progress and coverage reports for all testing quality – manual and automation
• Produce the relevant test artefacts for the feature/workstream as required
• Identify and manage data requirements during testing with your Product teams;
• Manage other QAs to meet delivery deadlines for the product area or project;
• Work within the boundaries of our Test Management toolset as defined in the overall testing strategy.
• Ensure data requirements are considered early as part of user story creation or refinement.
• Ensure data or config requirements are understood and included as part of continuous integration and deployment – including automation
• Ensure data requirements are understood for data seeding during automation testing or test creation.

Key task:

• Work with an Agile frame
• Help adoption of the automation frameworks and best practices
• Help development of new or evolvement of automated methods and techniques that ensure the quality of development covering functional and non-functional tests
• Drive improvements to quality assurance and identify gaps.
• Adherence to standards and best practices are upheld.
• Ensure knowledge is spread across teams.
• Work as “one team” to ensure deliveries are on time and to a high quality
• Take responsibility for the effective resolution of issues as they arise
• Contribute to the overall QA strategy and identify areas of improvement

Required skills & profile

Experience:

Significant experience of testing enterprise level systems that incorporate microservice architectures.

Experience working with:

• CI/CD
• TDD and BDD tools
• Functional testing methods
• ISTQB Foundation

Experience of the following would be mandatory:

• Automation framework – Junit, Selenium/Cucumber, etc
• Java knowledge
• API and web services (REST)
• XML/JSON
• Working with large databases
• Jira & Confluence or similar tools

Experience of the following would be beneficial:

• SQL
• Linux/Unix
• Tools: Git, SVN, Maven, Jenkins
• AWS services

Soft Skills

• Self-starter
• Strong communication skills - written & verbal- able to explain technical issues and solutions to peers
• Excellent problem-solving ability, well organized – able to plan own work and track progress against a plan
• Attention to detail
• Proactive in problem solving – can weigh up complex options to reach the right decision
• Influencer – can articulate and challenge appropriately around testing best practices
• Fluent spoken and written English

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