Our client is a B2B Software company and is looking for an experienced Software Test Analyst to join their development team. This is an ideal role for a Junior Automation Test Analyst or Manual Tester looking to take the next step up to Automation Test Analyst role or an Automation Test Analyst looking to expand their experience and progress their career working in a relaxed environment for the leading company.
The role provides the opportunity to work within the organisation supporting and enhancing existing applications and on new projects which will move the business forwards.
Role:
· The Test Analyst will promote, support, and embed quality to the delivery of the business transformations by applying their test methodology knowledge and experience, proven approaches and known industry best practice.
· As a Test Analyst, the successful candidate will lead the test strategy on continuous improvement changes within the delivery teams.
· Will work to understand the business and technical change and apply a test approach as relevant to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
· Will advocate and promote quality at all stages of the journey and ensure that business requirements, supporting documentation including technical documentation is provided and is fit for purpose adhering to definitions of ready and done.
· Will mentor and advise team members on a test strategy ensuring there is a consistent approach across the Business Technology function.
· Will promote test initiatives and automation gains to ensure robust testing of the products and features at all times.
Proven experience of manual testing and automation capabilities, the successful candidate will provide a strong and rounded ability within the Test function, showing adaptability to the type of testing required for the change.
Essential skills:
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills capable of maintaining relationships and managing all stakeholders
· Excellent organisational and multi-tasking skills
· Pro-active and positive attitude and approach
· Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively part of multi and cross functional teams
· Leadership and mentoring capabilities
· Solid SDLC and software delivery experience preferably in an Agile environment
Strong and demonstrable Test Analyst experience and skills including
· BDD experience
· NFR testing including UX/UI and cross browser compatibility
· API testing
· Unit, system, integration and regression testing
· ISTQB qualified
· Relevant tools exposure such as Postman and Jira
· Automation Testing experience/understanding
· Motor Finance/Industry experience would be a benefit
The following is a list of Key Responsibilities to give you a flavour of the varying aspects of the Senior Test Analyst role.
· Working on scoping out test scenarios and cases to execute against small changes through to large scale projects.
· Reviewing change request / requirement specifications/bug reports to plan test approach and provide test estimates
· Identify test approach and environment requirements from relevant documentation
· Writing test scenarios to explore all impacted areas including relevant levels of regression coverage
· Execution of tests and capturing/documenting test results and any defects
· Investigating, raising and helping to resolve any arising issues, working with relevant resource to help timely resolution
· Reporting test scripting and execution progress and any blockers in a timely manner
· Attending and contributing to meetings in line with the Senior Test Analyst role
· Liaising with Business Analysts, Product Owners and Development teams
· Providing support during the UAT period as required
· Creating and maintaining regression scripts
· Ensuring standards and best practices throughout the testing phase are adhered to
· Contributing to the ongoing improvement in the development life cycle within the organisation through testing of the project and feedback on and enhancement to processes
· Provide mentoring and feedback to the Test Team as relevant.
Working from home.