QA Test Analyst

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In this role you would be responsible for improving the quality of output for the wide range of systems that they work on. Whilst that is a common goal for the entire team, you would be expected to drive this from a testing point of view.

You would be part of a great, collaborative team working on interesting projects. This really is a role to make your own.

Your responsibilities will include

- Working on scoping out test scenarios and cases to execute against both small changes and larger projects

- Liaising with project managers and developers on scenarios to be tested

- Manual testing of new features and web sites/systems

- Writing out and managing automated tests (with help from developers if required)

- Working on re-test expectations with the wider team

- Help with data requirements to ensure tests are accurate or can be repeated reliably for staging environments

Main duties are

- Reviewing change feature specifications/bug reports to plan test approaches and provide test estimates

- Identify test and environment requirements from relevant documentation

- Writing test plans to explore all impacted areas including relevant levels of regression coverage

- Execution of tests and capturing/documenting test results

- Investigating, raising and helping to resolve any arising issues

- Reporting test scripting and execution progress and any blockers in a timely manner

- Attending and contributing to meetings to help improve our overall output

- 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

Essential skills

- Some coding experience - useful for writing automated tests

- Functional test experience

- Regression, UAT and non-functional testing understanding

- Excel and Word experience

- Self-motivated and pro-active

- Organised

- Good Communicator

Desired skills/experience

- BDD experience or understanding

- Cross browser testing

- API testing

- Agile or Waterfall understanding/exposure

- UX understanding

- Jira experience

Other general points about working at this company

- They are always looking to improve - if you have an idea that you think could work - that's great - let's talk

- A vibrant city centre working location, a relaxed working environment plus regular team lunches and after-work socialising events.

- Great chairs and electric up/down desks, so you can work in comfort.

- Semi-flexible working.

- They all take lunch at the same time. This might seem a small point, but it means that they are all free at the same time. They can chat at lunch, go out to lunch together or play darts, cards or other games together at lunch. It also means that if you want to speak to someone about your work, you know when everyone should be back at their desk and working again.

- 23 days holiday - rising to 28 days over time.

- Company pension.