System Integration Test Lead

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work. 

“A fantastic opportunity to join Content Supply Platforms in a unique role that provides exposure to all of the department’s high-profile deliveries across the major programmes. This is your chance to shape the testing strategy of an entire department!” – Integration & Test Lead

What you'll do:

• As a System Integration Lead of the Solution Engineering Team within Content Supply Platforms, you will collaborate with Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters and delivery teams, Central Analysts, Architects, Programme Managers, Stakeholders and other Product and Technical Leads to define and deliver the End-to-End aligned test strategy, approach and plan enable early business value. 

• Provide a consistent and coherent test vision at appropriate levels of detail to Stakeholders and technical teams within the department. Be the primary source of information for test progress and ensure test plans and artefacts are kept up-to-date and communicated accordingly. 

• Understand interactions between components and external consumers and leverage this knowledge to translate business and technical requirements into test requirements and artefacts. Appreciate and communicate the business value of features in a technical context.

• Define end-to-end user stories and test scenarios to support new functionality or changes to existing feature sets. Help the efficient and continuous validation of these changes between systems and components by providing technical guidance to delivery teams to drive test automation and devising a test automation strategy for the department.

• Own the end-to-end quality and testing deliverables for services and application. Ensure appropriate test practices and methodologies are applied. Promote creativity and encourage technical innovation through continual improvement in processes, technologies and tooling to improve quality and delivery.

• Proactively identify, analyse and resolve impediments and issues that have the potential to impact delivery. Devise and drive contingency plans to minimise risks. Provide support to production escalations where applicable.

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrable experience of a previous role as an Integration Lead within an Engineering department for a large organisation, preferably within an integration/multi-team environment providing backend services.

• Strong Stakeholder management and relevant people management experience. This includes providing regular status updates on current test activities at appropriate levels of detail for stakeholders, technical teams and the wider business. 

• Technical experience and knowledge of platform development and backend systems and experience of testing these. Able to quickly understand the full end-to-end functionality of all components within a complex architecture and defining a test strategy and gap analysis.

• In-depth understanding of software development processes and procedures, especially iterative development and incremental delivery using Agile methodologies and principles. Expertise in applying test and automation practices in an Agile environment utilizing continuous delivery and continuous testing models

• Experience of risk management strategies to mitigate and maintain alignment to business/programme strategies coupled with experience of championing cross-departmental improvement initiatives. 

• Extensive knowledge and experience of Integration and E2E testing within a full stack environment. An excellent understanding of cloud and web concepts including REST and RESTful services. Experience of testing large, highly scalable distributed services, complex databases, microservices and APIs in service and resource-oriented architectures. Including:

  • REST and RESTful services and associated test frameworks

  • Cloud-based service

  • Unit testing frameworks

  • Java automation frameworks

  • Performance and non-functional testing tools

  • Relational and NoSQL databases and testing approaches

  • Network principles and protocols

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband

Where you'll work:

Osterley:

Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers. 

On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon. 

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you. 

Why wait? 

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.
 
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Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.