QA Team Lead

QA Team Lead Role @ Coats Digital
Engineering department

Location 

Work from Home

Hours 

Full Time 

Role Purpose 

At Coats Digital, we build SaaS (software as a service) applications running on Azure under continuous delivery using .NET and/or Ruby technologies. Our customers work in the fashion industry (Brands and Manufacturers), and we help them in several fields like planning, costing, scientific calculations and optimising their operations. 

As a QA Automation Tester, you will be part of a team that builds and maintains our application ecosystems. 

Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities 

• Test cloud-native applications. 
• Lead both manual and automated test process and delivery.
• Participate in project planning, software design, and DevOps build activities. 

• Convert discussed stories into appropriate tests. 
• Build and maintain DevOps processes that produce all stages of the system. 
• Maintain the relevant documentation systems. 
• Report progress, challenges, and risks at regular intervals. 
• Become a reliable and influential member of the team. 

Education, Qualifications and Experience 

Essential 

• Be recognised as a QA Team Lead. 
• Have demonstrable manual and automated experience.
• Have some formal technology training or prior commercial experience. 

• Demonstrable database skills. 
• Be analytical and have excellent problem-solving skills 
• Open to learning modern technology/languages and taking advantage of our training budgets. 
• Understand SaaS application design patterns and practices. 

• Working experience in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). 
• Willing to be part of a team. 

Desirable 

• Microsoft DevOps (dev.azure.com) skills 

• Fashion industry experience 
• Manufacturing experience