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Test/QA Lead (Power Platform)

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London, United Kingdom

Full Time

06-01-2025

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Test/QA Lead -(Power Platform) £80 - 90k - London/Hybrid - dynamic & fast-growing organisation
The QA Lead role will need a strong track record in designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive test strategies across various frameworks, with a deep understanding of manual and automation testing techniques and tools. They must demonstrate expertise in functional, integration, and end-to-end testing for both Front End and Back End systems. You will be designing and implementing the Automation framework.
Core Skills & competencies
Strong experience of manual and automation testing
Strong track record of developing and executing manual Functional, System Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, and End to End Testing
The ability to Implement and review project test process.
The ability to define the scope of test requirements.
Strong experience developing test strategy for application features.
Experience of manual and automation testing on Power Platform and Azure
Significant experience writing test scripts and scenarios
Experience of coordinating test execution and reporting.
Strong experience specifying acceptance criteria for new features to enable testing
The ability to communicate quality issues in actionable bug report to project stakeholders.
Proven track record with automated testing
Good knowledge of agile software development life cycle.
Be able to contribute to user stories refinement and project tasks estimation.
Good defect management skills.
Strong experience/knowledge of:
Power Platform Testing Frameworks: Familiarity with Power Apps Test Studio, Power Platform Testing Automation Framework (PATAF), and custom testing frameworks.
Dataverse: Testing data integrity, validations, and custom APIs in Dataverse.
Power Automate/logic Apps Testing: Skills in testing multi-step flows, error handling, and performance validation.
Security Testing: Knowledge of Power Platform security roles, data loss prevention policies, and RBAC testing.
Performance and Load Testing: Experience using Azure Load Testing or custom scripts for Power Platform applications.
Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD: Managing CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform, including automated deployments and tests.
Testing managed/unmanaged solutions: within Power Platform, including solution layering and environment validation.
Experience of Front End UI testing
Responsibilities and Duties:
Manage software testing resources (Recruit, train, allocate and monitor)
Prepare, analyse, review and present reports and metrics to stakeholders
Develop good test cases for application features.
Contribute to specifying acceptance criteria for new features.
Contribute to project test planning and estimates.
Communicate quality issues in actionable bug report to project stakeholders.
Develop and execute Non-functional test scripts.
Provide release quality assurance.
Provide release artefacts
Provide test metrics reports to project stakeholders
Lead defect triage
Coordinate with other managers (Project Manager, Product Owner and Architect) to ensure the highest level of software quality
Coordinate with Customers and third parties
Coordinate test execution
Prepare and review test strategy
Prepare and review test plans
Execution of Manual Testing
Development of automated tests
Review user stories and other requirement documentation.
Contribute to project test planning and estimates.
Nice To have skills
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level or above.
University degree, preferably in an analytical subject.
Knowledge and experience using Azure DevOps
Experience of Contract testing of web services/microservices
Familiarity with security testing/Conducting app security and GDPR/data privacy assessments: where relevant.
SQL skills
Experience with any of the following tools and technologies
C#, Python, Typescript, JavaScript
SpecFlow,
RestSharp, RestClient
API Manual Testing tools like Postman, Swagger UI, SoapUI, JMeter, etc.
Jest/Mocha/nunit/xunit/mstest
WebdriverIO/Playwright/Selenium/CypressIO

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