QA Lead Engineer

As a result of continued growth, OzoneAPI is looking to recruit a Test Lead, who will be responsible for overseeing the testing process and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. You will lead a team of testers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to the development and implementation of effective testing strategies. You will be a part of an agile quality team and responsible for validating tests for various quality aspects of a project through functional, integration, system & regression tests, stress tests & UAT.

• Share options in a scaling business already achieving aggressive growth 
• Helping shape and drive our business’s strategy 
• An influential role in the future success and growth of our company 
• Competitive, performance-based bonuses 
• Working in flexible workplace with modern working methods, hours, and work-life balance 

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of testers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Provide guidance on testing methodologies, tools, and best practices for manual and automated testing.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and contribute to team members' professional development.

Test Planning and Strategy

• Develop and implement comprehensive test plans, considering project requirements and timelines.
• Define testing strategies for different phases of the software development life cycle.
• Collaborate with project managers and other stakeholders to align testing activities with project goals.

Test Execution

• Coordinate and execute testing activities, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Perform hands-on testing when required and assist the team in identifying and resolving issues.
• Monitor and report on testing progress, identifying risks and proposing mitigation strategies.

Automation and Tooling

• Work closely with the Engineering team to drive the design and delivery of a test automation framework..
• Evaluate and recommend testing tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work with industry-specific tools for automation and certification (such as OpenId Foundation’s FAPI Conformance harness, OBL’s FCS etc.) and promote their usage within the organisation
• Collaborate with the development team to integrate automated tests into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and business analysts, to ensure clear communication and understanding of testing objectives.
• Participate in project meetings, providing testing insights and updates.

Quality Assurance

• Define and enforce quality assurance standards and processes.
• Conduct root cause analysis for identified defects and implement corrective actions.

Requirements

Requirement Analysis

• Ability to read and understand technical specifications independently.
• Ability to read and understand product tickets as a background to the test case independently.
• Ability to review and identify gaps and inconsistencies between standards & tickets with test cases and resolve these with the product and engineering teams

Test Automation

• A broad knowledge of test automation tools for functional testing, processes and best practices

Test Case Documentation

• Ability to enforce testing standards and best practices.
• Ability to develop a comprehensive test strategy.
• Ability to Analyse and prioritise test cases based on risk and impact.
• Define a comprehensive test data management strategy

Test Case Review

• Experience of ensuring that test cases align with the overall project and testing strategy.
• Ability to Review test cases for scalability and compatibility across different environments.
• Expertise in reviewing test data requirements and ensure appropriate test data is available

Test case Execution & Defect Verification

• Experience of leading and guiding the testing team in test case execution. 
• Strong experience of test planning, assigning tasks, and ensuring that testing activities align with product specifications.
• Experience of verifying critical defects, participating in defect triage meetings, and ensuring that defects are appropriately addressed.
• Ability to plan, track and optimise the cost & use of test environments
• Define requirements for the tools and automation teams to streamline release deployment and test execution
  

Reporting

• Ability to review, analyse and improve processes based on test reports
• Experience of overseeing the reporting process within the team.
• Experience of collaborating with other leads and managers on cross-team reporting.

Defect Analysis

• Expertise in root-cause analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Risk Identification

• Ability to identify risks related to coordination, team dynamics, and overall project timelines.
• Ability to  develop strategies to mitigate risks and allocate resources accordingly.
• Experience of overseeing the work of the team and ensuring that risks are communicated effectively.

Test Strategy

• Experience of developing a detailed test plan based on the overall test strategy.
• Experience of coordinating with project managers and other teams to ensure testing alignment with project timelines.

Tools - Jira

• Proficient in configuring and customising Jira.
• Experience in designing workflows and schemas that meet organisational requirements.
• Skill in creating and managing Jira dashboards and reports.

API Testing

• In-depth understanding of Swagger / OpenAPI best practices.
• Ability to define and enforce API design standards.
  Strong knowledge of security practices for APIs.
• Ability to provide strategic leadership in using postman as a testing tool for APIs.

Scripting
Expertise in scripting and automation.

• Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles.
• In-depth knowledge of system architecture and infrastructure.

Benefits

• Stock Option Plan
• Training & Development

Open finance is now a global phenomenon with markets around the world embracing this new model for a next generation financial services industry. It is changing the world, laying the foundations to drive economic growth, tackling financial inclusion and leading to unprecedented levels of innovation.

The Ozone API founding team met and started this journey whilst working together to lead the design and delivery of the open banking blueprint in the UK. We saw the huge potential, but also the significant technical challenge banks faced and so we built the Ozone API platform - designed to remove the complexity of open finance and help banks and financial institutions adapt to and thrive in this new world.

We’re a fast growing, dynamic technology company that is already global. Our technology leads the market and our expertise is unsurpassed. We’ve built an incredible team, but the fun is just beginning with open finance now happening all around the world. We’re growing quickly and are seeking people who are passionate about delivering real change, working in an organisation that is doing the right things and working really hard to do them in the right way.

We’re a positive, cross-functional team of professionals who collaborate whilst trusting and respecting individual expertise.

If you’re decisive and imaginative, and if you thrive on making things happen as well as bringing out the best in others, you’ll fit right in. We have no time for deceptive delegators or politicians. We're in it together and we’re in it for the thrill of the journey.

This is a remote-first role, geared to a healthy work-life balance. At Ozone API, ‘flexible hours’ isn’t code for ‘all hours’, but you won’t be out of sight – we have office co-working spaces available and there will be periodic meetings and get-togethers.

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