Lead QA

Palantir Solutions is an integrated consulting and software company providing economic and planning solutions and services to the upstream oil and gas industry. We are a global team with offices in the UK, US, Canada, India, Australia, Colombia and Singapore. Everyone at Palantir takes pride in delivering solutions that exceed client expectations and developing new ideas to enhance our services and products.

Are you an experienced QA with a strong record of success, looking for a fresh challenge? Are you a commercially minded ‘people person’, who is able to lead and inspire a team? If so, we could have the opportunity for you.

This role requires a strong QA who can handle technical challenges in a fast paced environment. You will be able to analyse complex business scenarios, whilst having the demonstrable leadership skills to continually train and mentor Junior and Intermediate QAs.

We require a strong communicator who can form solid working relationships with our Global team; cooperating with QAs, Developers and BAs globally. Ideally, you will have strong skills and a proven track record in black box testing, white box testing and regression testing.

Your technical day to day responsibilities will include:

• End to end testing of the Palantir application suite (both products on the market and in R&D), from planning to post deployment.
• Designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining testing suites to provide high code coverage.
• Reviewing and challenging functional specifications for specificity and testability, and contributing to the overall development of the automation test suite using CodedUI.
• Developing and owning test artefacts (including test plans and test scripts), both functional and non-functional
• Taking ownership of functional areas to ensure that appropriate business analysis and development activities are in place e.g. code reviews, appropriate unit test coverage, user story documentation.
• Executing functional, regression, non-functional (performance, latency, resilience, etc.) tests and managing defects
• Defining and tracking quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status.
• Assessing automation readiness, defining coverage and providing specifications for automated tests.

Salary Range - £45,000 - £50,000 per annum

Our new Lead QA will enjoy a work environment that is entrepreneurial and varied, with colleagues who are pro-active self-starters, comfortable working either independently or as part of a team. This is also an opportunity to build your knowledge of international fiscal regimes and the petroleum industry.

• Experience in Software Quality Assurance, that encompasses all stages in software development and testing lifecycles.
• Experience working within an Agile development environment.
• Experience using Test Asset Management and Execution tools; e.g. Microsoft Test Manager, OnTime, HP Quality Centre, TFS.
• Experience in testing complex business processes.
• Familiarity with MS SQL and relational databases.
• Expert working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent communicator.
• Personable and enthusiastic team player; a self-starter with the ability to take the initiative resolving challenges.

Preferable

• ISEB Qualifications or similar
• Previous experience working as a Business Analyst.
• Experience with DevOps and Continuous Integration
• Automation experience (preferably using VBScript and C#) and working knowledge of one or more mainstream test automation tools such as CodedUI, QTP, TestComplete or LoadRunner.
• Any experience of working within the petroleum industry or a financial services organisation is highly desirable.
• Experience with auditing financial calculation results or background in accounting/finance.
• Experience with advanced financial evaluation techniques such as Monte Carol simulations, decision trees, tornado diagrams, spider diagrams, portfolio management, efficient frontiers or real options theory.

Applications must be received by 08 January, 2019. We want only the best people for our company. Our interviews will require personality, aptitude and skill tests, in which you will be subjected to difficult and challenging questions.