QA Test Lead (Power Platform) - Initialize : Job Details

Test/QA Lead - (Power Platform) £65 - 85/90k - London/Hybrid - dynamic & fast-growing organisation

The QA Lead role will need a strong track record in designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive test strategies across various frameworks, with a deep understanding of manual and automation testing techniques and tools. They must demonstrate expertise in functional, integration, and end-to-end testing for both Front End and Back End systems. You will be designing and implementing the Automation framework.

Skills / experience (as many of the below as possible, not essential)

• Experience of testing on Power Platform and Azure
• Strong experience of manual and automation testing
• Strong track record of developing and executing manual (Functional, System Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, and End to End Testing
• • Strong experience/knowledge of:
    • Power Platform Testing Frameworks: Familiarity with Power Apps Test Studio, Power Platform Testing Automation Framework (PATAF), and custom testing frameworks.
    • Dataverse: Testing data integrity, validations, and custom APIs in Dataverse.
    • Power Automate/logic Apps Testing: Skills in testing multi-step flows, error handling, and performance validation.
    • Security Testing: Knowledge of Power Platform security roles, data loss prevention policies, and RBAC testing.
    • Performance and Load Testing: Experience using Azure Load Testing or custom scripts for Power Platform applications.
    • Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD: Managing CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform, including automated deployments and tests.
    • Testing managed/unmanaged solutions: within Power Platform, including solution layering and environment validation.
    • Experience of Front End UI testing
• The ability to Implement and review project test process.
• The ability to define the scope of test requirements.
• Strong experience developing test strategy for application features.
• Significant experience writing test scripts and scenarios
• Experience of coordinating test execution and reporting.
• Strong experience specifying acceptance criteria for new features to enable testing
• The ability to communicate quality issues in actionable bug report to project stakeholders.
• Proven track record with automated testing
  • Good knowledge of agile software development life cycle.
  • Be able to contribute to user stories refinement and project tasks estimation.
  • Good defect management skills.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Manage software testing resources (Recruit, train, allocate and monitor)
• Prepare, analyse, review and present reports and metrics to stakeholders
• Develop good test cases for application features.
• Contribute to specifying acceptance criteria for new features.
• Contribute to project test planning and estimates.
• Communicate quality issues in actionable bug report to project stakeholders.
• Develop and execute Non-functional test scripts.
• Provide release quality assurance.
• Provide release artefacts
• Provide test metrics reports to project stakeholders
• Lead defect triage
• Coordinate with other managers (Project Manager, Product Owner and Architect) to ensure the highest level of software quality
• Coordinate with Customers and third parties
• Coordinate test execution
• Prepare and review test strategy
• Prepare and review test plans
• Execution of Manual Testing
• Development of automated tests
• Review user stories and other requirement documentation.
• Contribute to project test planning and estimates.

Nice To have skills

• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level or above.
• University degree, preferably in an analytical subject.
• Knowledge and experience using Azure DevOps
• Experience of Contract testing of web services/microservices
• Familiarity with security testing/Conducting app security and GDPR/data privacy assessments: where relevant.
• SQL skills
• Experience with any of the following tools and technologies
  • C#, Python, Typescript, JavaScript
  • SpecFlow,
  • RestSharp, RestClient
  • API Manual Testing tools like Postman, Swagger UI, SoapUI, JMeter, etc.
  • Jest/Mocha/nunit/xunit/mstest
  • WebdriverIO/Playwright/Selenium/CypressIO