Senior Test Engineer
Kainos
In this Lead Test Engineer role you will act as a technical QA lead within a multi-skilled agile team, shaping test strategy and directing automated, manual, and non-functional testing. You’ll coach a small team, influence quality across the product, and collaborate with customers to ensure software meets user needs. The position offers learning opportunities in new technologies while delivering high-quality software ready for promotion. You will contribute to a people-first culture and help drive test excellence at scale.
Responsibilities- Define and drive test strategy across automated, manual, and non-functional testing
- Design, create, and maintain test scripts and approaches for all application layers
- Lead and coach a small team, manage performance and development
- Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to align quality goals
- Operate in CI environments, configuring tools like Jenkins or TeamCity
- Stay current with QA tools, techniques, and methodologies
- Provide technical leadership and direction for the testing effort
- Experience ensuring adequate testing coverage across testing layers
- Design and maintenance of test scripts for automated and manual testing
- Proficiency with open-source test automation tools (Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Cypress, Playwright) and CI tools (Jenkins/TeamCity)
- Proficient in at least one OO language (e.g., Java)
- Strong technical awareness and understanding of software architectures
- Experience managing others and conducting performance reviews
- Passion for QA tools, technologies, and methodologies
- stakeholder management
- leadership
- coaching and mentoring
- Test automation
- CI/CD
- non-functional testing
Reference: WJ-747_30169193