Lead Software Tester

We are currently seeking a Lead Tester to join our team in Woking. The Lead Tester will lead the testing within a feature team responsible for resolving customer escalations, combining both leadership with active day-to-day involvement in the work of the feature team, and helping the team deliver, via a rigorous quality process, highly impacting cloud-based software as a SaaS solution.

What we'll get you doing:

• Working within an Agile team to play a critical role in resolving complex technical issues, driving continuous improvement for our products. Working closely with development feature team and customer facing support team to ensure our solutions meet the highest standard of quality and performance.


• Implementing testing strategy, aligned with departmental strategy, and helping ensure the team delivers on schedule and according to the departmental quality processes.


• Helping to build and support the team, and specifically those in the test function, creating and sustaining a positive team environment, mentoring team members on testing best practice.


• Contributing to the team activities, including hands-on execution of testing, both manual and automated, ensuring repeatable and verifiable test records.


• Working with Lead Testers for other feature teams to identify and champion improvements in testing and delivery practices.


• Proactively developing your skills, identifying areas for improvement that align with company strategy and your own career aspirations and undertaking required training activities.
  
  You will be a university graduate in computer science or a science-based subject (or similar), with proven workplace software testing experience, and ideally hold at least an ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.


• You can identify and implement testing strategy at a product level, assessing product and project risks, incorporating industry knowledge, allowing you to support the team to meet agreed delivery schedules.


• You will have hands on experience of software testing, both manual and automated, and a desire to deliver high quality software, allowing you to create thorough and repeatable test plans for new features, helping to find issues that our customers care about.


• You have tested both web and multi-tiered backend applications that follow a cloud-based distributed architecture.


• You will have worked in an agile development team environment, contributing to team processes, and identifying and champion improvements.


• You will be an excellent communicator, capable of building and maintaining successful working relationships at all levels, presenting both technical and non-technical information.


It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in or knowledge of:

• Testing within AWS architecture.


• Testing of SQL and NoSQL databases


• Scripting in a language such as Bash, Python, Scala, Go or alike.


• Integrating testing within a CI/CD process, i.e. Jenkins
  
  IDBS (https://www.idbs.com/) is a dynamic and innovative company providing purpose-built software solutions to address the data management challenges prominent across the BioPharma lifecycle and supply chain.


Leveraging more than 30 years of experience in life science informatics, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a portfolio of innovative BioPharma knowledge management technologies to streamline the capture, analysis, reporting and sharing of data required to accelerate the next generation of life-changing therapies.

Cloud-native and analytics-centric, our platforms enable customers in research, development and manufacturing to efficiently and compliantly access critical data and insights to make faster, smarter decisions with greater confidence.

IDBS serves thousands of users across hundreds of organizations around the globe. Our predominant customer base is Life Sciences and includes 23 of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and more than 250 small and medium-sized pharma and BioPharma companies, CROs, CDMOs and CMOs.

IDBS is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

Do you want to work in an agile scrum team with other experienced software engineers and testers, sharing responsibility for creating high quality enterprise software? Do you enjoy working in cloud-based technologies, helping to build high quality next-generation, market leading research process and data management software?, At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering what's next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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