Data Test Lead

About the job you're consdering

Our Data & Intelligence Portfolio continues to experience significant growth, driven by new client engagements and increasing demand across our existing account. As demand continues to exceed forecasts, we are expanding our permanent engineering capability to support delivery excellence, strengthen our technical leadership community, and build sustainable capability for future growth. We are looking for an experienced hands-on QA Lead to operate across multiple delivery teams.

The role combines quality governance, technical leadership, quality engineering expertise and stakeholder management. The successful candidate will support multiple delivery teams and their Quality Engineers, ensuring that testing activities align with the QA Strategy while providing practical guidance, technical challenge and assurance throughout delivery.
The QA Lead will be expected to be an active participant in delivery, supporting planning, design, implementation, testing, defect investigation and quality governance activities.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business;
it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the
time.​

​If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: ​

identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent
criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service) 

You role

Quality Leadership
•    Implement the existing QA Strategy across assigned delivery teams.
•    Produce and maintain project-level Test Approaches aligned to the QA Strategy.
•    Ensure testing activities remain risk-based, proportionate and aligned to delivery objectives.
•    Provide quality leadership and/or support Quality Engineers during sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, reviews and governance forums.
•    Drive adoption of Quality Engineering and shift-left practices.
•    Support evidence-based quality decision making and quality gate governance.
Quality Engineering Leadership
•    Support and mentor Quality Engineers embedded within delivery teams.
•    Provide technical coaching on test design, automation strategy and test implementation.
•    Support Quality Engineers during technical discussions with developers, architects and stakeholders.
•    Assist teams with complex defect investigations, root cause analysis and risk assessments.
•    Review test artefacts and provide guidance on appropriate test coverage.
•    Promote automation-first and CI/CD-integrated testing approaches.
 
Technical Leadership
•    Influence technical low-level designs and ensure solutions are designed for testability.
•    Participate in low-level design workshops and architecture discussions.
•    Review quality risks associated with data engineering design, integrations and deployments.
•    Challenge technical solutions where quality, operability, maintainability or testability concerns exist.
•    Support implementation of quality controls within CI/CD pipelines. 

Your skills and experience

The successful candidate should possess strong technical credibility and be comfortable working alongside software engineers in a modern engineering environment.
Source Control and Delivery
Strong understanding of:
•    Git
•    Git workflows
•    Feature branching strategies
•    Merge Requests / Pull Requests
•    Branch management
•    Repository administration
•    SSH key configuration
•    Commit, pull, push and clone processes
Experience of:
•    GitLab
•    GitLab CI/CD
•    GitLab Pipelines
•    Automated Quality Gates
•    Continuous Integration
•    Continuous Delivery
The candidate must be capable of reviewing pipeline results and understanding how automated quality controls are implemented and enforced.
 
Application Technology
Experience working with, testing or leading quality activities against applications built using:
•    SQL
•    ETL Tooling 
•    AWS Cloud environments 
Practical understanding sufficient to engage in technical discussions and challenge delivery approaches. 

Essential
•    Comfortable leading discussions within delivery and project forums.
•    Able to identify quality risks and raise them proactively.
•    Confident providing constructive challenge to developers, programme QA leads, architects, delivery managers and stakeholders.
•    Able to facilitate difficult conversations regarding testing scope, quality risks and delivery readiness.
•    Comfortable coaching, mentoring and supporting Quality Engineers.
•    Demonstrates visible leadership and engagement within Agile delivery teams.
•    Able to communicate technical and quality concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. ​

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.​

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.​

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?​

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way. 
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.  ​
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. 

Why you should consider CapgeminiLong Description

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a
collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities
that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day,
sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow
their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion. 

Job Description

Works in the area of Software Engineering, which encompasses the development, maintenance and optimization of software solutions/applications.
1. Applies scientific methods to analyse and solve software engineering problems.
2. He/she is responsible for the development and application of software engineering practice and knowledge, in research, design, development and maintenance.
3. His/her work requires the exercise of original thought and judgement and the ability to supervise the technical and administrative work of other software engineers.
4. The software engineer builds skills and expertise of his/her software engineering discipline to reach standard software engineer skills expectations for the applicable role, as defined in Professional Communities.
5. The software engineer collaborates and acts as team player with other software engineers and stakeholders.

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