Test Analyst


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Recruiter

Aquila Heywood

Listed on

21st May 2018

Location

Altrincham

Salary/Rate

£32000 - £32000

Salary Notes

Plus benefits

Type

Permanent

Start Date

asap

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Test Analyst wanted

up to £32,000 plus benefits

Full time, permanent role

Our Story

Our story is a great one and we love to share it! We are the largest software platform provider to the life and pensions industry in the UK and Ireland.

It is the most exciting time to come on board. We are expanding and looking for bright, enthusiastic shiny stars to help us continue our success through all chapters…… and that is where you come in!!

The Next Chapter

We are looking for a highly motivated Test Analyst to join our Calculations team, who can design and execute Behaviour Driven Development automated tests using Cucumber framework.

The Star

The star of this chapter is going to be you, our Test Analyst, a champion of BDD processes and automated test tools. Our Test Analyst will:

- Work actively in Scrum team

- To design and execute Behaviour Driven Development automated tests using cucumber framework.

- Maintain automated test suites, refactoring to keep it clean and efficient.

- Be involved in and champion Behaviour Driven Development processes and the use of automated test tools.

- Design and execute manual tests

- Define testing scenarios based upon user stories.

- Work within a Scrum team with analysts and developers to define acceptance criteria in Gherkin syntax and agree test automation cases, implementing them in - parallel to code development

- Define and create the test data required for all tests.

- Execute manual and automated test cases

- Design and develop automated functional and regression test cases and scripts.

- Consult with developers on software and system design in order to facilitate test automation.

- Analysis and trend reporting for continuous product quality improvement.

- Enhance and extend test automation libraries via the cucumber test framework.

- Solve complex automation challenges and work on complex projects with minimal supervision.

- Work with scrum teams to establish and promote best practices, standards and processes for test automation.

- Support the Head of testing in reviewing current processes and procedures and assist in implementing best practices.

To Play The Part

Our Test Analyst is going to be a special kind of person. Someone who has worked within an agile software development, someone who has:

- Working within an agile software development environment.

- Experience of working within a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) environment

- Experience of Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD).

- Experience of developing acceptance tests, regression test suites and creating and optimising multiple suites to meet the needs of rapid deployment Scrum teams.

- Working with Cucumber test framework and designing tests in features, scenarios and steps

- Use of simple domain specific language to express user behaviour and expected outcomes.

- Experience in designing and executing automated tests via the cucumber framework.

The ability to participate effectively in estimation, planning, cost of quality and quality risk analysis.

- Detailed understanding of agile Software Development Lifecycles, defect management, patching and software release processes.

- Ability to quickly understand complex business processes and systems.

- Effectively communicate testing activities and findings in oral and written formats.

- Strong organisational and time management skills.

- Inclined to work as part of a highly motivated an innovative team and contribute to the business, technical and operational goals of the organisation.

- Experience of Quality Assurance and testing methodologies.

- Experience using tools such as Jira and confluence.

- Ability to inform and educate colleagues on areas of superior knowledge.

Are you our next Star?

Our story is built on your success, and your success does not go unnoticed! Alongside our generous benefits package we recognise and reward high performance and encourage an open and honest working environment. We will support you through every new chapter of your story with us.

During our application process we collect and store your personal information. Further information on the data we collect, how it is used and who this is shared with can be found in our privacy notice on our website.

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