Software Test Lead

About The Role

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experience Test lead or a senior automation looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

What You’ll Be Doing

• Understanding Business Value: Understanding the business value behind the Application under test and involving from early stages of product development including refinements and backlog grooming
• Expertise in Testing: Be a source of expertise on testing for IT services, planning, coordinating, and controlling various test activities at different stages of development, and developing suitable test methods using the right test tools
• Ownership: Taking responsibility for the quality of the application developed and owning the workspace you are leading by providing latest test status with clean reporting to the stake holders and maintain the quality of the application. Being a strong team player with Attention to Detail and Time Management to meet deadlines.
• Technical Management: Overseeing the technical management and control of the test team while ensuring quality assurance standards across projects with controlled governance protocols. Implementing automation in all areas possible and getting thing right for implementing automation. You'll lead by example, helping to build a future-proof QA function while still being hands-on in your testing approach.
• Collaboration: Expert in testing and releasing for agile development process and working closely with a scrum team to understand requirements and develop an accurate test approach and always going above and beyond to make the workspace successful.
  
  

About You

What you’ll bring to the team

• Leadership and Mentorship to guide, mentor, and motivate the testing team, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.
• Highly experienced in Agile ways of working with ability to implement and follow the test strategy, plan, and procedures, outlining the scope, objectives, schedule, and resources required for testing
• Test Execution and Reporting experience in designing and implementing the test automation and working closely with technical leads, developers, and stakeholders, defining best practices and to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient test coverage. Have overseen the execution of tests, track progress, and report on test results, identifying and addressing any issues or risks.
• Test Data and Environment Management to ensuring they are properly configured and aligned with the production environment to carry out valid tests.
• Go to person for Quality Assurance Advocacy, ensuring that testing activities align with project requirements and that the final product meets quality standards
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes, methodologies, and tools, ensuring ongoing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Minimum 2 years as a Senior Tester or Test Lead position
  
  

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

About Us

Working hours

This is a full-time position with a total of 37.5 working hours per week. The role follows a hybrid working model, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office presence. This flexibility is designed to support a healthy work-life balance while ensuring effective collaboration and productivity.

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies : We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover
  
  

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.