Purpose : We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced QA Team Lead to join our Americas IRIS Accountancy development team. Using agile methodologies, you’ll be part of a Testing team working alongside fellow QA and developers to ensure we deliver to the highest quality standards. Utilizing test cases, testing documentation and automated testing you will ensure the best possible quality for product releases. The role requires close liaison and consultation with software developers, product owners and developer managers and your test team colleagues. Continuous Integration is key to our software delivery strategy, and you will be using existing skills to build smoke and regression testing suites to ensure we cover the applications with automated tests and embed these into our existing and new CI / CD pipelines. You will ensure that the software delivered is of the highest quality, using continuous and automated testing. You will share your knowledge and experience across the testing team. You will need to be highly motivated, have strong communication and problem-solving skills. A team player that can rise to the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment and prepared to learn and apply new technical skills. UI and API Automation is a key part of our ongoing improvements to our testing process and as such will call on your experience in these areas, as we continue to improve our test coverage and implement best practices. This is a great opportunity for you to join a growing and investing product and customer centric business, with significant opportunity for you to share and grow your skillset. Key Skills : A methodical and logical approach to testing coupled with strong diagnostic and analytical skills. Strong communication skills both verbally and written. Familiarity with Jira, Azure or other bug tracking software. Azure DevOps is preferred. Understanding and experience of full software development life cycle from initial scoping and specifications through to testing, release, documentation, and maintenance. Experience in regression testing, usability testing, stress testing, acceptance testing. Working knowledge of BDD techniques using Cucumber, SpecFlow, Cypress or equivalent. Understanding of DevOps practices. Drive for continuous improvement and efficiency. Triage, analysis and prioritization of the support backlog ensuring that KPI targets are met. Responsibilities : Collaborate with the product and development teams in agile ceremonies to understand requirements (inceptions, sprint planning, stand ups & retrospectives). Accurately record the output of testing, logging defects with sufficient clarity and managing them throughout the defect life cycle. E.g using testrail. Designing test cases and following testing standards. Creating, maintaining, expanding and performing automation test scripts. Ability to apply configurations and create test data sets. Maintain and improve quality of the applications delivered by the team. Work with other QA team members across the group via Community of Practice. Proactive and able to work autonomously, managing own workload to achieve deadlines. Assisting support team with queries. Seniority level
Mid-Senior level Employment type
Full-time Job function
Information Technology Industries
Software Development
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IRIS Software Group is a leading global provider of mission critical software & services & one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. We help organisations to make better business decisions by developing integrated software solutions to minimise admin, make business processes more efficient & give more time to do what’s valued. We started 45 years ago with accountancy software & have evolved to be relied on by more than 100,000 customers across 135 countries in accountancy, education & business. We invest heavily in development using the latest processes & technologies, driven by our Indian & Romanian Centres of Excellence to build the next generation of cloud-based accountancy, HR & education solutions. Almost one million UK employees are managed by our HR solutions, & one in six UK employees are paid through IRIS payroll solutions. We are the largest third-party online tax filer with the UK Government, & we are used by 54 of the top 100 US & 93 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms. We also serve over 12,000 schools & academies, & almost four million UK families use our apps to connect to their child’s school. Since 2023, we have been awarded Tech CEO of the Year 2023 (Elona Mortimer-Zhika) in the UK Tech Awards; Cloud Innovation of the Year 2023 by UK IT Industry Awards; Tech Employer of the Year (2023 & 2024) in the Thames Valley Tech Awards; Technical Innovation – National Supplier 2024 Award at the Onrec Awards. IRIS Education has been named Company of the Year at the UK National MAT Awards 2023, crowned Company of the Year (more than 12m) in the Bett Awards 2023 & awarded Best EdTech Product – School Management Solutions in the Global EdTech Awards 2024. Troncmasters By IRIS also won the Payroll Innovation Award in the Global Payroll Association Awards 2024. We are proud of our Great Place to Work accolades, including Best Workplaces in Tech, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing and Best Workplaces for Women.
