Position: Test Analyst
Location: West London
Salary: £32000 – £36000 per annum
Job type: Permanent
Client is one of the UK’s leading housing associations.
Responsibilities:
Work with the Project Manager, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and Developers to finalise user stories, entry and acceptance criteria, test plans, test scripts, and defect management approach for IT delivery projects
Design and create robust test scenarios, test cases and test data sets for use in manual, exploratory and automated tests
Develop and enforce quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles
Undertake hands on manual and automated testing of new IT service functionalities and the changes to ensure integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and technical specifications
Perform risk based testing, prioritising key business areas for testing in order to accomplish testing within a defined time frame and also ensure product quality at the same time
Ensure environments and test data are appropriate prior to starting tests
Identify product areas that are suitable targets for test automation and design /develop solutions for automating regression test cases (tools, scripts, frameworks)
Assist on automation tool selection and implementation
Work with Test Lead and the project team in monitoring and supervising defects to ensure quality resolution within the agreed test schedule
Liaise with developers to ensure efficient turnaround of defects and feedback for product enhancement via Product Owner
You will have the following Technical Knowledge and Skills
Hands on experience of test automated tools like Selenium WebDriver, TestComplete and infrastructure testing tools like Load Runner/Login VSI etc
Extensive experience in automation framework creation
Proven experience in requirement gathering, test preparation and execution for major application integration and/or major application product release
Strong knowledge of system testing metrics, best practices and methodologies
Extensive experience with core software applications, including Microsoft Office 2016, O365 and CRM applications
Experience of testing cloud/hosted services
Experience with Housing Association specific applications such as Orchard, ProMaster will be an advantage
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Non-negotiable skills:
Proven experience of automating testing
An improvement-focussed mindset
Experience of Agile improvement methodology
KEY SKILLS:
Experience of test automated tools, automation framework
