Senior Test Specialist (IT)
The opportunity
As a Senior Test Specialist at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing testing activities across a diverse portfolio of projects, working closely with business stakeholders, project teams, developers, product owners, and third-party vendors. The role will play a key part in ensuring quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle while supporting multiple concurrent initiatives.
This is an excellent opportunity for a testing professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, influencing quality outcomes, and contributing to strategic business transformation programmes.
In this role you will:
- Plan, design, and execute functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing across multiple projects and releases.
- Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and test cases to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Review and validate business requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure solutions meet business needs and are testable.
- Support and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), working closely with business stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- Identify, manage, and communicate testing risks, issues, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage defect tracking and resolution, working collaboratively with development and project teams to drive timely fixes.
- Provide clear reporting on testing progress, quality metrics, risks, and release readiness.
- Build strong relationships with Business Analysts, Product Owners, Developers, Architects, Project Managers, and business stakeholders.
- Support the delivery of strategic initiatives across Salesforce, Data Platform, workforce management solutions, integrations, and business transformation projects.
- Champion a quality-first approach, ensuring testing is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes, governance, standards, and best practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency through automation, reusable test assets, and process enhancements.
We would love to hear from you if you have:
- 5+ years' experience in software testing or quality assurance roles.
- Strong experience in functional, system, integration, regression, UAT and end-to-end testing.
- Experience working within Agile and/or hybrid project delivery environments.
- Proven ability to manage testing activities across multiple concurrent projects.
- Strong defect management and root-cause analysis skills.
- Experience working with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail).
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while managing competing priorities.
Desirable:
- Experience testing Salesforce platforms.
- Experience testing data migration, integration, and data platform solutions.
- Experience working on enterprise transformation programmes.
- Exposure to API and integration testing.
- Knowledge of test automation principles and frameworks.
- ISTQB Foundation or Advanced Certification.
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
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At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Corporate Services
An extensive range of corporate services expertise is required for an organisation of our scale and reach to be successful, and we have fantastic teams of professionals across a range of functions such as tax and finance, marketing, operations, and people and organisational development. Whether at the earliest stages of your career, or an experienced professional, we are committed to nurturing, supporting, mentoring, and stretching our people, so that you can maximise your potential and meet your career aspirations in your field of expertise.
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