Quality & Testing Team Lead | Luxury Retail Sector

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Quality & Testing Team Lead - Lisbon

Capgemini Portugal is currently looking for a Quality & Testing Team Lead in DevOps Platform join one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative companies in the luxury industry.

Our Client is the owner of prestigious Maisons distinguished by their craftsmanship, creativity, and technological innovation. Our Client’s ambition is to nurture the unique heritage and values of its Maisons and businesses, while enabling them to grow and prosper in a responsible, sustainable manner over the long term.

To leverage Lisbon’s tech spirit and infuse it into its brand-new Tech Competence Centre, our Client is looking to reinforce its technical capabilities on state-of-the-art technology and respond to the growth of their business. Their Lisbon teams will be an extension of its central Group Platforms teams and will be fully integrated in the core technology workforce. They look forward to welcoming their TCC employees and onboarding them on an exciting adventure managing modern solutions and innovative technologies through global, scaled platforms to create business value with pace and agility.

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Responsibilities

Taking a leading delivery role in customer and client engagements, serving as our primary point of contact for quality and testing products. You will be expected to understand their business needs, challenges, and objectives and participate in pre-sales solutions activities.

Collaborate closely with our clients and Deployment Services to ensure the delivery of our existing services that align with their requirements, all while effectively managing costs.

Leading a team of skilled engineers and guiding them in delivering efficient quality and testing capabilities transversally under our product and service catalog.

Thinking fast and adapting to rapidly changing client needs, ensuring our services remain relevant to their evolving goals, and making the most of agile methodologies.

Bridging the gap between client business needs and technical requirements, developing strategies that address both.

Contributing to creating and offering the best Cloud and DevOps Services (people, process, and technology) for our customers.

Maintaining a client-centric focus, ensuring a high level of satisfaction and success with our products.

Developing and implementing testing strategies, plans, and procedures.

Defining testing standards and ensuring adherence to best practices

Conducting functional, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing.

Continuously improving testing processes and methodologies.

Staying updated with industry trends and advancements in testing and quality products and capabilities.

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Academic Background

B.Sc. or MSc in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or related field.

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Skills & Experience

Five years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, with at least three years in a leadership or management role, including expertise in roadmap product definition, timesheet management, and agile methodology.

Demonstrable experience in leading engineering teams, with the ability to inspire, mentor, and guide a team of engineers.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt quickly to changing situations.

Significant business acumen, enabling you to connect business goals with engineering solutions while being mindful of cost management.

Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build strong client relationships.

Proficiency in modern cloud architecture paradigms (e.g., microservices, serverless) and all aspects of DevOps (from methodological aspects of DevOps to technical elements such as CI/CD, containerization, and automation).

Experience with test automation tools like Tosca, Selenium, JUnit, or similar.

Proven experience working with Cloud and DevOps delivery initiatives and related cloud technologies & methodologies (agile).

Strong understanding of testing methodologies, tools, and techniques, with hands-on experience in test automation.

Proficiency in using agile project management tools such as Jira, Trello, or similar. - Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Java, Python) and scripting languages for test automation.

Proficiency in English is required; and in French is a plus.

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Desired Personal Skills

Proactivity, initiative taking.

Ability to communicate with technical and functional teams in a multi-cultural environment.

Autonomy, dynamism, communication skills, Team spirit, (on top of functional and technical skills) are key to succeed in the role.

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Interview Process

Our team will actively review all applications. If your application is selected, we will reach out to you for an informal introductory call.  

The next step will be meeting our Client’s team for a technical interview with team members, selected candidates will move to final interview with the Hiring Manager and HR team. Additional rounds may be engaged on a case-by-case basis.

Important note: 

For this role you will be initially offered a contract for Capgemini Portugal. More details will be shared during the interview process.