Team Leader Testing - Sheffield, United Kingdom - HSBC

HSBC

Verified Company

Sheffield, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Team Leader Testing

Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.

Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC's global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely.

We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world's leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

We work in small, agile DevOps teams with colleagues around the world.

Following extensive investment across our Technology and Digital domains, we are currently seeking an experienced Team Leader Testing to join HSBC Technology.

Brief overview of the business areas
The program is looking for configuring the built Microservices as part of the Business Outcomes we plan to deliver.

This is with the vision to make our elevated architecture capable of satisfying growing need of partners and market scheme demands for Faster Deliveries.

The Test Engineering job is responsible for requirements, traceability, tooling, designing, automating and executing test strategies and test plans for Products/Services.

What you will be doing;

Sets the standard for testing and automation for the platform
Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage.
Assist in the development of the strategic technical architecture.
Provides technical solutions to business problems, technical leadership and direction to management.
Remain current on technical and professional advances and business strategies regarding area of responsibility.
Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate.
Resolve architectural or development blockers raised
Partner with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI /CD pipelines to deploy services.
Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager.
Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified operational procedures.
For large systems, prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications.
Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation and implementation of the systems.
Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives.
Collaborate with enterprise architecture and senior management to define cloud strategy and perform PoC on new technologies.
Keep uptodate and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable
Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered

Requirements

What you will bring to the role;
To be successful in this role you should have proven experience within the Technology sector with knowledge of the following skills:

Minimum of 10 years' applied experience as a senior test lead
Extensive experience in test automation and tooling (specifically Cucumber, Gatlin and jMeter)
Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, loadbalancer, etc.
Expertise in distributed system design like microservices, Springboot.
Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies like Appdynamics, Splunk, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry.
Expertlevel SQL coding abilities is preferred
Knowledge in payments business will be an added advantage.
Ability to work independently and think out of the box.
The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.
Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success.
Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation.
Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally.
Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment.

This role will primarily be based in London or another UK base location, some travel may be required.

Come Power a Business that Defines How to Power the World

We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and