QA Technical Analyst

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced QA Automation Lead to define and drive the test strategy across projects. You will lead QA activities, coordinate with teams and suppliers, and advance automation to shorten release cycles.

You will build and maintain the automation framework, manage scripts in GitHub/GitLab, and report daily QA status to stakeholders while ensuring high-quality releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or CS/IT with ISTQB or equivalent Advanced Test Management cert.
• Demonstrated leadership and teamwork, with drive to scale QA practices into a sustainable service.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain test plans and strategies across the project lifecycle.
• Lead QA activities and coordinate testing with suppliers and internal teams.
• Automate regression and functional tests to improve time to market for QA services.
• Develop and maintain automation framework and knowledge across the team.
• Manage automation scripts in GitHub and GitLab.
• Provide daily testing status updates to QA leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Automation testing

Selenium

Robot Framework

Python

CI/CD

Jira

GitHub

QA framework

Leadership

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Engineering

CS/IT qualification

ISTQB Advanced Test Management

Agile certification

Tools

Selenium Open Source

Robot Framework

ReadyAPI

Sauce Labs

GitHub

GitLab

ConnectALL

Gatling

Job description

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain test plans across the lifecycle of the project for all aspects of Acceptance and E2E Testing.
• Where appropriate assist with developing internal test practices across the organisation and ensuring delivery of testing services that complies to the organisational quality assurance policy, practices, and test strategy.
• Test Estimation to ensure that the effort for testing on projects is correctly captured and tracked.
• Development and maintenance of Customer Acceptance Test objectives matrices through the project and successful baselining as part of project closure.
• Definition of Acceptance Test criteria and working with Business Stakeholders to sign off user test requirements and test acceptance criteria.
• Day to day management of the activities of self/team and QA activities of suppliers (wherever needed).
• Creating and delivering all key QA deliverables – Test plans, strategies, scope, requirement traceability, test objective matrices, test cases, test reports (including defect management).
• Keen understanding of system analysis.
• Ability to work independently to achieve project deliverables.
• Maintain and build functional and non-functional testing for relevant systems using approved automation tools as per QA framework and practises.
• Have a good understanding of automation and its application.
• Good working knowledge of automation tools - Selenium Open Source, Robot Framework, Python, ReadyAPI, Saucelabs, GitHub, Gitlab, ConnectALL, Gatling and any tool that RDG or the departments deem necessary to incorporate into work delivery.
• Automate regression and functional tests to help improve time to market for QA services.
• Manage the automation scripts and codes bases using tools like GitHub and GitLab.
• Help create requirement traceability matrix by active management of stories in JIRA, ALM and related tools.
• Strive towards upskilling and maintaining skills/proficiency to best delivery change in RDG.
• Support testing processes especially around automation in a CI/CD and/or DevOps Model.
• Help document knowledge of all automation and technical testing for the team.
• Help train and share knowledge with team members on all subjects that you work on.
• Good understanding and adopting of static assurance across all testing stages.
• Be proactive and escalate any delays in testing to project manager, test manager and/or Head of QA in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain a good testing knowledge of the relevant systems (online and/or backend), scope and objectives and input into the Service Desk Knowledge base.
• Engage with vendors/suppliers and work collaboratively to ensure that quality of releases and products.
• Ensure supplier test delivery is in line with RDG policy and standards and develop a Test Assurance Framework for third party software delivery.
• Be proficient in Risk based approach to testing and deliverables.
• Work with the test manager and project team to manage expectations and ensure adherence to timelines.
• Review and maintain quality of test knowledge and scripts in the team.
• Good team player and good collaboration skills especially with other teams within the organisation to ensure the organisation deliver to the railway community.
• Report on daily status of testing to test manager and if required to the stakeholders, vendors, and project management.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with project stakeholders, including key business users.
• Work positively and communicate professionally across the team to make an effective contribution to team tasks and team spirit.
• Contribute to the building of automation framework within the organisation.
• Be flexible with day-to-day remit and work as required by the Quality Assurance team.
• Work with Service Assurance leadership and other departments to deliver a support framework for AI functionality to enhance productivity on QA deliverables.
• Demonstrate good team processes and practices to support EDI and good personal development.

Requirements

• Professionally qualified with a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering and or relevant Computer Science or Information Technology qualification and an ISTQB or similar certification in Advanced Test Management and Agile.
• They will also be good leaders, team players and driven to grow the established practise into a stable and sustainable service.