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Quality Assurance Engineer

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Belmontlavan Full time

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Purpose and Background

The client is looking for a capable Senior Quality Assurance Analyst who will be responsible for delivering high quality in software testing and assurance for Client's software to internal and external users, with a focus on early identification of issues to minimise impact on the end user. They will work primarily as part of the DevOps team supporting digitally enabled products and services but will also support the wider application set as required, particularly Disclosure which is our main business process.

About The Technology Team

Dependable, efficient, innovative, and effective technology services are critical to the core function of Clients and enabling it to deliver its core mission. As part of its strategic ambitions Client has recognised an uplift to technology operations and capabilities is critical to realise its strategic goals of higher impact, improved stakeholder experience and disclosure information. Therefore, we are strengthening the technology function to provide a clear vision and roadmap of the technology landscape, to improve our relationship to key internal and external stakeholders and to build the technology capabilities needed to deliver outcomes, while providing a resilient, stable, secure, and cost-effective IT service.

Key responsibilities include:

Experience in building test automation frameworks from scratch
Proficient at creating, maintaining, and developing test scripts both front end and backend systems (GUI's, Flat file transfer, API's, Databases etc)
Improving the quality of the software delivered to users
Developing test strategies, test plans, techniques and manage all testing efforts within BAU function and new project developments
Produce test scripts and regression suites for new and amended software
Responsible for test planning and execution of system related tests including integration,
regression tests
Establish procedures for results analysis and reporting
Design and implement defect tracking and correction procedures with use of best practices and test tools available
Planning and carrying out system testing of software, including verifying once its delivered to production, whilst working with end users to understand requirements and acceptance criteria and translate them into high level and low level test scenarios and cases
Supporting user acceptance testing with data preparation and test case creation tasks
Responsibility for covering the Senior Quality Assurance Manager if off sick and on leave
Ability to drive testing phases from start to end by leading small test teams including
business users
Able to plan, schedule and monitor work to meet tight deadlines and quality targets
Apply the appropriate test measurements and metrics
They will need to develop and maintain technical/ project QA documentation

Requirements

Required skills and experience:
Expert knowledge and experience of, but not limited to: o Manual testing
Automation Testing - Selenium web driver, API testing, postman, GUI
Familiar and adhere to TDD & BDD approaches and best practices
Test Management Tools - ALM, JIRA, X-Ray, Azure DevOps or similar tool set
Minimum of 3-5 years' experience in software testing with use of both automation and manual testing ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing Certification
Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalence years of experience in the IT domain
Proven experience in architecting, implemented and maintaining automation frameworks
Experience of planning and executing tests on web applications and MS Dynamics CRM
The ability to investigate and trouble-shoot a wide range of technical problems
Has a process orientated and systematic approach to planning and problem solving through consistent approach with high expectations of quality and integrity
The person will need to be Committed, self-starter, quick learner, results driven, self-reflective team player versatile with open mind when learning new technologies and tools
Maintains an awareness of developing best practices and takes responsibility for driving their own development
Stakeholder engagement, able to build relationships and use expertise to influence and help your colleagues use tools to achieve their outcomes
Excellent communication, verbal and knowledge skills in problem analysis, risk management and continual improvement
Desired skills and experience (optional)
Has a thorough understanding of testing best practices such as Agile (Scrum) or DevOps methodologies
ITIL process understanding
Exposure in Climate change data legislation, practices, and stakeholders
Experience in environmental related industries i.e., Water, energy, forestry related
Experiencing using SQL, oracle and similar database technologies running queries would be beneficial
This is a full-time based at Clients London office reporting to the Senior Quality Assurance & Change Manager, Technology & Operations

Benefits

Holidays. Generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Program, life assurance, Training and development, Flexible working opportunities, and others
Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the United Kingdom

Seniority level

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type Full-time

Job function

Job function Information Technology
Industries Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education

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