QA Lead - Portsmouth, United Kingdom - Searchlight Cyber Ltd

Searchlight Cyber Ltd
Searchlight Cyber Ltd
Verified Company
Portsmouth, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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WHO ARE WE?


Searchlight Cyber provides organizations with relevant and actionable dark web threat intelligence, to help them identify and prevent criminal activity.


Founded in 2017 with a mission to stop criminals acting with impunity on the dark web, we have been involved in some of the world's largest dark web investigations and have the most comprehensive dataset based on proprietary techniques and ground-breaking academic research.


Today we help government and law enforcement, enterprises, and managed security services providers around the world to illuminate deep and dark web threats and prevent attacks.


ABOUT THE POSITION


The Quality Assurance (QA) Lead will have the exciting opportunity to review and grow the existing QA software engineering processes.

As we continue on our exciting scaling journey the QA lead will build a highly skilled QA team to support our development processes.

We're looking for someone with experience leading a QA team, testing for SaaS based products.

The role is a perfect next step for someone looking for a new challenge building and scaling process in a growth stage startup.


WHAT WILL I DO?

  • Develop, implement, and manage processes to ensure that products meet required specifications for quality, function, and reliability prior to delivery
  • Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for products
  • Communicates quality standards and parameters to the team and other appropriate staff
  • Coordinates product testing processes
  • Participates in manual product testing, develops automated testing and is able to develop further tooling as per the testing pyramid
  • Ensure that performance and scalability is an integral component of all test strategies and project plans
  • Identifies and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues
  • Work closely with the CTO and Security to ensure that company security policies are adhered to
  • Reviews client, customer, and user feedback

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

  • Strong experience with Java or JavaScript based testing tool, including Selenium and Cypress
  • Knowledge of both manual and automated testing methods, with a passion or focus for automation.
  • Experience with enterprise development processes
  • Previous experience in maintaining a QA provision to support SaaS products.
  • Experience in building provision would be advantageous, whoever the role would also suit someone that has held a senior QA position for some time and is now looking for the next step in their career
  • Knowledge of Agile and commercial development processes
  • Experience of developing and creating automated testing procedures and CI/CD would be advantageous
  • Demonstrate a securityfirst approach
  • No certifications are required for this role, however a certification such as ISTQB or similar would be beneficial

PROGRESSION AND TRAINING ROUTES?


You will be supported with an internal mentor, as well as being supported through a proven learning and development program to support you acquiring the skills and experience you need to progress.


SALARY PACKAGE AND BENEFITS

  • We offer competitive salaries depending on your experience and skills; and a benefits package including:
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Entry into company pension scheme
  • Company vision scheme
  • Private Dental cover
  • Comprehensive training and support to develop your career, including a training budget
  • A range of office perks, including free fresh fruit daily, a bean to cup coffee machine and more
  • Regular team building and reward events

INTERVIEW PROCESS

  • Screening Call with our Talent Manager
  • Face to face interview with the CTO (virtual interview available if needed)
  • There will be a short technical task to complete in your own time
  • Offer and onboarding
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