Software Test Lead Consultant

About the job you're considering

We work closely with clients and partners to take full advantage of the opportunities of technology. We mobilize expert teams that create custom solutions from existing and emerging technology to deliver viable outcomes at speed. We call this 'Value in the making.'

Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti is currently looking for a Software Test Lead Consultant to join our Quality Engineering and Test Practice, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving impactful value creation for our clients.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:

identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

Essential Skills

• Ability to lead a team in doing test cases, test data preparation, execution & reporting with hands on leadership.
• Ability to review non-functional requirements and specifications to ensure clarity and testability.
• Skill in developing and updating test cases and scripts based on thorough analysis of test requirements.
• Proficient in preparing test data, executing test cases, and logging results.
• Capability to conduct defect analysis and reporting, including re-testing for fixes.
• Ability to submit daily status updates and metrics to project leads.
• Experience engaging in peer reviews to enhance the quality of testing deliverables.
• Strong understanding of both functional and non-functional aspects of the solution, including testing landscape and assurance requirements.
• Review non-functional requirements and specifications to verify that they are unambiguous and testable.
• Build solid understanding of solution in terms of functional & non-functional aspects of the solution, test landscape & required test assurance
• Pro-actively work towards building robust test activities to achieve success of the project.
• Lead the Team training & Test Preparation activities proactively
• Identify and finalise solid Regression test pack + Additional tests to achieve required coverage
• Log the results of the tests and compile test results for technical test exit report.
• Document defects discovered during the running of the tests.
• Work with the hardware, Infrastructure and software Technical Teams and Leads as deemed necessary to help them rectify issues encountered during testing.
• To support daily test report to management team

Your skills and experience

Mandatory Skills

• Good understanding of using command Line tools & Linux Command Line.
• Good understanding and Experience of smart meter network ecosystem
• Previous experience of working with Energy suppliers Gas & Electricity
• Good understanding of non-functional aspects of IT systems.
• Good understanding of Performance, Resilience, Monitoring, Operational Readiness
• Good understanding of AWS cloud
• Experience in defect lifecycle
• Experience in testing failover, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Restore, Batch
• Schedule, Operability, Alert/Monitoring, Performance Testing
• Experience of using monitoring tool such as App Dynamics, Ops View
• Experience in testing and proving service continuity planning, contributing to
• operational readiness.
• Experience in producing test plan and test run plan, execution of tests and reporting.
• Experience across the following aspects of Testing: Unit, Functional, Integration,
• UAT, and OPT (Operational Process Testing) and SCT (System Capacity Testing)
• Experience in ALM Test Plan and Test Lab and defect management
• Able to document defects within a system (JIRA) and to determine the appropriate
• actions required.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner)
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, SoapUI).
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• The candidate must be eligible for Security Clearance (SC) for this project. This requires a minimum of five consecutive years of residency in the UK, with no single period of absence from the country exceeding 28 days during that time.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Management or, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.