OAT Test Analyst

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Role: OAT Test AnalystLocation: Remote & Southend Duration: 6 Months Inside IR35

Do you want to work for an award winning global organisation at the forefront of technology?

What you'll do

* Test execution and co-ordination of the Test Scenarios for the Operational Acceptance Test (OAT) stage with technical teams (Middleware, DBA, Support Engineers)

* Provision of technical direction and governance (for OAT).

* Chair Technical FMEA calls to develop the failure points of the newly identified infrastructure

* Create Test Scenarios from technical documentation and identify any dependencies

* Work with the Technical teams to review and assure the OAT Test Scenarios

* Ensuring all subordinate test documentation (e.g. test scenario) is produced by the appropriate individual and reviewed.

* Knows Infrastructure tests that will ensure there is coverage of both expected and unexpected behaviour

* Taking responsibility for test coverage within the team where necessary

* Works to maintain tests and ensure regression testing is performed to avoid regression issues.

Required Skills:

* Excellent communication skills, written and verbal

* Strong Infrastructure Technical skills with experience of working in AWS environment

* Strong experience in SQL to Oracle migrations and understanding of databases

* Minimum 5 years Infrastructure experience (with at least 3 years focused on Non-Functional Testing)

* Good understanding of Risk Based Testing (RBT) and Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)

* Good understanding of agile delivery lifecycles

* Experience with JIRA and Confluence

* Experience with JMeter

* Experience with Business Continuity Testing

* Able to hold complex test discussions with architects, SMEs and Operational Teams

* Experience with technical teams (DevOps, DBA) and chairing test calls, running test execution

* Experience with Infrastructure set-up / design, understanding of Fail-overs, Data guard, Database (Oracle / SQL)

* ISTQB Advanced Level Technical test analyst

Essential Personal Qualities:

* A strong teamwork ethic with a proven ability to work collaboratively

* Outstanding communications and interpersonal capabilities - both written and verbal

* Highly developed critical thinking, interpretative and analytical abilities

* A strong eye for detail and keen focus on results, with a flexible 'can do' approach

* A willingness to learn, grow and stretch into new roles and different industries

* Rigorous, attention to detail, assertive and confident

* Ability to present test results both in technical terms and in non-technical (summary) terms, internally.

* Ability to work both in isolation, managing one's own time, and leading a small team.

* Flexibility and creativity in working around logistic and technical blockers

* Java with Reactive Streams / Spring Boot / Spring WebFlux

* XML with SAX/StAX also HTML5(CSS & JavaScript) / Bootstrap / Thymeleaf

* PostgreSQL or equivalent relational database Why Wait Apply now!