Senior Quality Engineer - Contract

Large Blue Chip financial institution require a Quality Engineer to join their team as a contractor.  You will be part of a project that will bne implementing a new payment system throughout the organisation. To lead the quality engineering approach for functional and non-functional requirements for complex solutions, employing scalable and reliable automated test tools and frameworks. To enable test coverage by planning and driving testing activities across all stages and iterations of product, systems and service development collaborating across several delivery teams. To measure and monitor portfolio application of standards for testing, assessing risks, taking preventative action.. This role will report into the Lead Technical Solution    *Technology & Architecture* * Plan, track and monitor test-project and quality engineering-related activities so that communication and decision-making pertaining to solution delivery is data driven. * Identify, establish and adopt appropriate testing methods, automated tools and technique to solve problems in tools and testing within the portfolio. * Partner with various functional areas and 3rd parties to shape and drive delivery of quality engineering approaches and tools through the provision of specialist knowledge. * Innovate and contribute test approaches as part of the Technology Engineering standards and strategic objectives so that progress towards achieving test strategies is future-fit, and that risks are minimised. * Work collaboratively with Technology partners to direct the overall approach to quality engineering in consultation with other IT partners to drive alignment and respond appropriately to changes * Direct the alignment of portfolio quality engineering practices with modern engineering approaches (i.e., Agile, CI, TDD etc.) ensuring quality assurance, automation and performance testing. * Find ways to improve flow and teams' delivery, removing blockers and ensuring value through the improvement of quality engineering deliverables and resolve the issues based on team need so that blocks and challenges to the test effort are removed. * Construct, interpret and lead  * Lead and provide direction to teams ensuring that team is participating actively on demo/pilot with business team so that business priority is understood and informs the adoption of the risk approach. * Manage work requirements effectively by contributing to the reprioritising of backlogs and reacting flexibly to changing demands, through effective use of resources, understanding of work complexity, size and technical requirements. Deliver against targets within every iteration as well as continuously striving to improve the quality of deliverables, therefore delivering the highest possible value to the customer. * Evaluate software testing approaches and tools aligned with Group Standards and assess their relevance and feasibility within the portfolio so that test execution activities can p