Senior QA Analyst

3 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Senior QA Analyst delivering client needs for projects and engagements - remote, Salary to £50k
**Your new company**
Yorkshire-based managed IT service provider delivering network, cloud and collaboration solutions to public and private sector organisations.
**Your new role**The Senior QA Analyst is a key member of the Cloud Delivery team who are responsible for delivering client requirements for projects and engagements, ensuring that we successfully deliver quality on time.
Key stakeholders include, but are not limited to the wider QA team, the Project team to which they are assigned, the wider Project and Programme Management and Quality Assurance community.
Key Responsibilities
- Carries out automation testing on a project or projects, under the guidance of the Automation Lead / Automation Manager, may alternatively lead testing on a small project
- Inputs to the testing required for a project including, inputting to test plans, writing and executing feature files and step definitions, including complex cases, assisting with environment and kit identification, recording defects, reporting, identifyingrisks
- Responsible for inputting to the global test strategy and for being part of the overall QA community, sharing learnings and knowledge with colleagues
- Responsible for feature file and step definition provision, execution, defect logging, tracking and reporting on the projects they are assigned to
- Responsible for updating the project manager or scrum team, or QA Lead about the progress of testing, and any associated risks
- Responsible for attending any testing meetings of the project, including, amongst others sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, showcases and retrospectives, or standard weekly project meetings
- Responsible for alerting QA Lead or Project Manager to any issues on the project, for example: showstopper defects, changes to timescales
- Assisting with defining the test outline for the project including identification of the environments, toolsets and kit needed for the test
- Mentoring peers and QA colleagues in best practice and development of their skills and knowledge

**What you'll need to succeed**

**Skills**:

- Good knowledge and ability in the use Quality Management Tools
- Familiar with both Behaviour Driven Development tools and Test Driven Development Tools
- Excellent communication skills in fluent English, both written and verbal
- Skills such as test case provision (including edge, boundary and negative test cases), defect management and write up, test execution and test toolsets and techniques
- Ability to both work well within a team and independently

Knowledge
- Quality Assurance Management (Principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of testing from initiation through to implementation for all types of testing but most specifically for automation testing)
- Automation Strategies: Principles, methods and techniques for defining automation test strategies, including implementing frameworks, technical approach, and CI
- Progress Reporting: Methods and techniques for reporting progress against an agreed plan
- Project Management Methodologies: Understanding of how QA should function when working on Projects using both waterfall and agile methodologies. Involvement in both project types, understands resource requirements, changed focus and timings between two
- Solid understanding of methods, techniques and tools for the analysis, assessment and management of testing risk
- Good understanding the software development lifecycle and key development technologies with a sound familiarisation of at least one methodology (Agile for preference)
- Good understanding of REST services and experience testing APIs
- Aware of version control, Configuration Management, Progress Reporting, Quality Assurance Management
- Experience in working with automation frameworks
- Experience with Continuous Integration and/or Delivery
- Good comprehension of test and defect management
- Desirable experience of working within a DevOps team

Behaviours
- Keen to learn new skills and keep up to date with technological developments
- Proactive and forward thinking
- Quality minded
- Drives for continuous improvement

**What you'll get in return**Remote working, Salary to £50,000, pension, reward scheme, training and development, family friendly policies, private medical insurance, life assurance.
Although remote working, you may be required to travel to Head office in North Yorkshire so will need to UK-based.
**What you need to do now**
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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