QA Automation Test Lead

Are you ready to unleash your full potential?  We’re looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay’s path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.

About the team

Worldpay is an international leader, the biggest in the world, in payments processing technology servicing all types of businesses – big and small, online and traditional retail outlets.

The company’s financial products include credit cards, ATM processing, merchant services, rewards and fraud prevention.

Worldpay’s New Acquiring Platform (NAP) specialise in delivering online payment services to our customers and we are looking for Engineers to join our team to take it to the next level. NAP is unique in the world and puts us firmly beyond what the competition can deliver.

Operating within a collaborative Agile environment, we aim to deliver effective solutions to the business and our customers using our evolving payment platform.

We are looking for proactive Team players who would like to work in the Fintech sector with likeminded individuals that want to develop robust and scalable applications for the growing market.

What you will be doing

As part of an Agile team, you’ll contribute and support the team to deliver its commitments in a predictable way according to the SAFe definition and with the expected quality.

The Automation Test Lead will report to a Development Manager and work closely with each discipline within the Delivery Team (Product Owner, Design, Development and Test) to complete test analysis, test design and automated test execution, integrating closely to deliver User Stories.

• Support and maintain all testing activities with respect to implementation of new features, existing features or bug fixes.

• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.

• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.

• Develop, document and maintain functional test cases and other test ware like the test data, data validation and automated test scripts by using the supplied automation framework.

• Produce well structured, maintainable, reliable and fit for purpose code at an accepted level of quality

• Report automated execution results; document and manage defects to resolution using provided tools.

• Backend database testing using SQL.

• Ensure all tests are covered in time and form and report timely any deviation.

• Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.

• Hold and facilitate test case reviews with business analyst and developer team members.

• Proactively identify improvements and enhancements to working practices.

• Participate in sprint planning and provide details on the testing tasks and effort required to validate the committed user stories.

• Participate and provide updates on tasks at the Daily Stand Up

• Attend iteration planning, backlog refinements, iteration review and retrospective

• Working collaboratively with delivery team to ensure the Acceptance Criteria has been met

• Support the implementation of process improvements identified in the retrospective

What you bring:

• Can-do attitude and a sense of responsibility for the wider implications of software engineering. A flexible approach is necessary for the role as business requirements and their relative priorities are subject to review and change

• Strong JAVA skills (Common Packages, Collections, Generics, Threads, Exceptions, XML, JMS, JPA, JTA, etc)

• Very good understanding of messaging systems: JMS (IBM MQ, ActiveMQ) or/and Kafka

• Proficient with Java frameworks/technologies and tools like: IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, Git, Log4J, Jenkins

• Strong database knowledge (preferable: SolidDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle)

• Proven experience in test automation (written in Java, Selenium and/or Cucumber)

• Good understanding of requirements (AC contribution required)

• Be able to demo the team’s work in Iteration Review meeting (be able to present in front of other teams and stakeholders)

• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical and non-technical issues

• Good problem-solving skills, commitment to detail and the ability to learn quickly

• Strong analytical skills, able to provide support to solve business or production problems

• Highly collaborative, supportive and team player that demonstrates a proactive ‘can do’ attitude

• Passion about sharing knowledge and best practices