QA TESTER: (PENTAHO)

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QA TESTER: (PENTAHO)

QA TESTER: (PENTAHO)

The role is a 3-month contract based in Southend paying between £365-£415 per day.

The main role of the Test Analyst will be to:

* Use technical design specifications and User Stories to devise and document Test Plans in line with project sprints under the guidance of the Test Manager or Senior QA.

* Prepare Test Cases/Acceptance Criteria in accordance with the Test Strategy and Test Plan.

* Carry out Text Execution in accordance with Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Cases. Under the guidance of the Test

* Manager or Senior QA, Product Delivery Manager or Scrum Master.

* Estimate, plan and schedule testing work on the Project.

* Static testing / Analysis of supplied Project Artefacts in test preparation.

* Requirements / User Story analysis to aid test planning.

* Creating Test scripts / Acceptance Criteria for a set of User Stories (requirements).

* Collaboration with scrum team members and all Test customers & business representatives to detect and resolve defects early and build quality into products.

* Supporting, coaching and developing other Test staff.

* Peer reviewing Test Artefacts (e.g. Test Scripts) as required.

* Creating Test Data for user stories and saving on Bitbucket.

* Creating realistic, reusable test data.

* Executing test scripts and recording results.

* Raising defects in alignment with Data Engineering guidelines, and assisting in their resolution.

* Reviewing test results to ensure solutions meet business requirements.

* Updating tracking tools, e.g. Jira/Confluence on an ongoing basis to maintain data quality.

* Timely & accurate reporting of the status of testing related activities against plan.

* Attending project ceremonies e.g. sprint planning, retrospectives, stand-ups as appropriate.

* Maintenance of own technical or specialist knowledge

* Identifying and managing allocated risks & issues.

* Analysing testing related issues arising on projects, devising and implementing pragmatic solutions.

solutions.

* Ensuring testing infrastructure requirements are known, clearly understood, and progressed appropriately.

* Working with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Skills:

Jira or Confluence

Pentaho Data Integration and/or Pentaho Reporting.

SQL and/or Mondrian query languages

ETL Technologies

HIVE/IMPALA

Mandatory Technical Skills:

* Proven and current QA/Test Analyst experience in a large Company or Public Sector organisation.

* Excellent testing knowledge throughout all phases of the testing lifecycle.

* Proven testing experience with ETL Technologies.

* Experience in developing product backlogs with measurable success criteria.

* Analysis of user stories to identify acceptance criteria.

* Knowledge and experience of test automation including basic coding experience.

* Experience in product review.

* Experience of using Jira and Confluence.

* Experience with the use of version control systems.

* Co-ordination and development of testing including Scripting, Scenario Planning and execution to include:

* Integration testing

* Functional testing of Co-ordination of User Acceptance testing (UAT)

* Performance testing o Regression testing

* Testing experience with Pentaho Data Integration and/or Pentaho Reporting.

* Knowledge of SQL and/or Mondrian query languages

* Experience of automating ETL testing.

* Experience with HIVE/IMPALA

* Testing in a Linux environment

* Experience of a range of platforms e.g. Client/Server Internet Browser technologies, Oracle etc.

Experience of a range of Testing tools e.g. ALM, LoadRunner, Selenium, SOAPUI and JMeter

* Experience of building or using test automation frameworks.

* A relevant software testing qualification e.g. ISEB/ISTQB (or equivalent)

Mandatory Business Skills:

* Security clearance level - must be willing to undergo SC

* Excellent communication skills.

* Experience of mentoring

* Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. TDD, BDD, SCRUM, Kanban, etc.) and working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment.