Senior QA Analyst - 12 Months - Herefordshire

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The Client

Well known global commerce organisation based in Herefordshire

The Job:

Senior QA Analyst - You will have strong experience of working in a fully automated environment

Day Rate - £300 to £350 per day

Location - Herefordshire

Job Details:

Responsible for the QA of the website ensuring a consistently high level of code quality.

Working within the delivery team you will be responsible for improving QA, working alongside BA's, technical leads and testers to create and review tests and acceptance criteria

Responsibilities:

* To ensure the technical direction of the QA team in liaison with the QA Team Leader ensuring that the team are aware of the importance of principles of good software design and development.

* To ensure that QA standards and principles are followed by performing peer reviews of the tests and acceptance criteria.

* To ensure the features developed by the team are produced to the highest possible quality in the fastest possible time and no less, so that we are able to continue to do so in the future.

* To ensure that the Agile Software Development Life Cycle is followed.

* To develop and mentor the QA community including one to one mentoring where necessary.

* To improve the quality of the code by ensuring we have 100% test coverage and no code hot spots.

* To improve the QA of the website and identify any functional, technical or performance problems providing suggestions for improvements.

* To improve, share and retain critical in-depth knowledge of the systems developed and maintained by the organisation, such as the Website and all supporting services.

Key Skills and Experience:

* Demonstrable expertise (3 years +) in devising then executing QA processes, tools and techniques

* Expertise in the use of automated test tools including load, stress and performance testing plus script automation

* Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure preferably using Google Cloud Services

* Experience of retail, preferably commerce and/or milt-channel and an understanding of the technologies and associated issues in this environment.

* Experience of working within different development methodologies incl. Agile, waterfall etc. and the role that testing plays in each of them

* A track record of over-seeing successful software deployments

* Demonstrates comfort with ambiguity and an entrepreneurial style, not afraid to challenge to ensure quality delivery

* Flexible in approach and neither dogmatic nor bureaucratic when deploying QA disciplines into an inexperienced business

* Robust & resilient, a completer/finisher with an attention to detail. Analytically in approach, tenacious and driven by results.

* Highly numerate and literate, with the ability to produce top quality written specifications and strategy and implementation communication

* Able to meet tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure

* Experience in any of the following technologies.

* Gherkin / Specflow

* Jira Agile

* HTML

* SQL Queries

Additional information:

This is a long term contract with a minimum 12 months term with a strong likelihood to further extend and paying £300 - £350 per day. My client is an award winning organisation.

If you are interested in this opportunity then please email across a copy of your CV in Word format to [email protected]

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