We are currently seeking a Lead Tester to join our team in Woking, leading the testing within a feature team, combining both leadership with active day-to-day involvement in the work of the feature team, and helping the team deliver, via a rigorous quality process, highly impacting cloud-based software as a SaaS solution. What we'll get you doing:

• Working within an Agile team to implement testing strategy, within the scope of a product, ensuring alignment with product goals and departmental quality standards
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, with a focus on mentoring and supporting test engineers. Promote best practices in testing and contribute to the professional growth of team members. Actively participating in testing activities including both manual and automated test executions, ensuring creation of reliable, repeatable and verifiable test artifacts that support continuous delivery.
• Collaborate with Lead Testers from other feature teams to identify, share and champion improvements in testing and delivery practices
• Proactively developing your skills, identifying areas for improvement that align with company strategy and your own career aspirations and undertaking required training activities., You can identify and implement testing strategy at a product level, assessing product and project risks, incorporating industry knowledge, allowing you to support the team to meet agreed delivery schedules.
  
  You will have hands on experience of software testing, both manual and automated, and a desire to deliver high quality software, allowing you to create thorough and repeatable test plans for new features, helping to find issues that our customers care about.
• You have tested both web and multi-tiered backend applications that follow a cloud-based distributed architecture
• You will have worked in an agile development team environment, contributing to team processes, and identifying and champion improvements
• You will be an excellent communicator, capable of building and maintaining successful working relationships at all levels, presenting both technical and non-technical information.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing (or equivalent) qualification, but we're open to finding someone passionate about testing and looking for their next opportunity within the industry.
• A background and interest in Science, due to the nature of our software.
• integrating testing within a CI/CD process, i.e. Jenkins
  
  ABOUT IDBS
IDBS helps BioPharma organizations unlock the potential of AI/ML to improve the lives of patients. As a trusted long-term partner to 80% of the top 20 global BioPharma companies1, IDBS delivers powerful cloud software and services specifically designed to meet the evolving needs of the BioPharma sector. IDBS, a Danaher company, leverages 35 years of scientific informatics expertise to help organizations design, execute and orchestrate processes, manage, contextualize and structure data and gain valuable insights throughout the product lifecycle, from R&D through manufacturing. Known for its signature IDBS E-WorkBook software, IDBS has extended its flexible, scalable solutions to the IDBS Polar and PIMS cloud platforms to help scientists make smarter decisions with assured confidence in both GxP and non-GxP environments. Do you want to work in an agile scrum team with other experienced software engineers and testers, sharing responsibility for creating high quality enterprise software? Do you enjoy working in cloud-based technologies using an automation first approach, helping to build high quality next-generation, market leading research process and data management software?