Senior Test Specialist (IT)

Overview

As a Senior Test Specialist at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

 

The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing testing activities across a diverse portfolio of projects, working closely with business stakeholders, project teams, developers, product owners, and third-party vendors. The role will play a key part in ensuring quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle while supporting multiple concurrent initiatives.

 

This is an excellent opportunity for a testing professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, influencing quality outcomes, and contributing to strategic business transformation programmes.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Plan, design, and execute functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing across multiple projects and releases.
• Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and test cases to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Review and validate business requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure solutions meet business needs and are testable.
• Support and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), working closely with business stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
• Identify, manage, and communicate testing risks, issues, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage defect tracking and resolution, working collaboratively with development and project teams to drive timely fixes.
• Provide clear reporting on testing progress, quality metrics, risks, and release readiness.
• Build strong relationships with Business Analysts, Product Owners, Developers, Architects, Project Managers, and business stakeholders.
• Support the delivery of strategic initiatives across Salesforce, Data Platform, workforce management solutions, integrations, and business transformation projects.
• Champion a quality-first approach, ensuring testing is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes, governance, standards, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency through automation, reusable test assets, and process enhancements.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

 

• 5+ years' experience in software testing or quality assurance roles.
• Strong experience in functional, system, integration, regression, UAT and end-to-end testing.
• Experience working within Agile and/or hybrid project delivery environments.
• Proven ability to manage testing activities across multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong defect management and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience working with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while managing competing priorities.

Desirable:

 

• Experience testing Salesforce platforms.
• Experience testing data migration, integration, and data platform solutions.
• Experience working on enterprise transformation programmes.
• Exposure to API and integration testing.
• Knowledge of test automation principles and frameworks.
• ISTQB Foundation or Advanced Certification.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

 

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About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team! 

 

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!