Quality Assurance Analyst

Alphasights; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative company as a QA Analyst where your contributions will directly impact the user experience. This role offers the chance to work closely with software engineering and product management teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products in a fast-paced environment. With a strong focus on continuous improvement, you'll engage in both on-the-job learning and classroom training, gaining exposure to a variety of technologies and challenges across EMEA, the US, and Asia. If you're proactive, enjoy problem-solving, and are eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in QA roles with a Bachelor's degree in relevant fields.
• Solid technical troubleshooting skills and experience with bug tracking tools.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage test plans, suites, and cases across multiple projects.
• Manually test applications and track execution data.
• Collaborate with development teams to identify parameters and edge cases.

Skills

Test Planning

Manual Testing

Bug Tracking (Jira)

Troubleshooting

Collaboration with Development Teams

Agile Methodologies

Technical Troubleshooting Skills

Experience with Azure DevOps

Experience with Test Management Tools

API Testing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Related Field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Selenium

Cypress

Job description

AlphaSights is looking for a self-driven QA Analyst to join the Software Engineering Team. We are a digital business in which continuous uptime and smooth IT experience is central to our success. The role of the QA Analyst therefore represents a visible and valued opportunity to have an immediate impact. Working alongside Software Engineering and Product Management, you will focus on supporting the user experience while vetting new and innovative products and features, as well as enhancing existing ones.

You will be given areas of responsibility and be expected to manage your own time. You will need to maintain a positive, problem-solving mindset, and be attracted by the challenge of delivering high quality support in a fast-paced environment. You must be proactive, creative, and enjoy interacting with other people. You will always be looking for ways to improve your own work while at the same time being committed to helping the wider team succeed. You are excited to make the most of on-the-job and classroom-based learning, and the opportunity to dive into the field of IT through exposure to a wide array of different technologies, regions, and challenges.

Working largely with the teams based in London/Portugal, you will also have the opportunity to work with teams based in other offices across EMEA, US and Asia.

What you’ll do:

• Create and manage test plans, test suites, and test cases across multiple projects.
• Manually Test a variety of applications, tracking test execution data
• Create and track bugs/defects throughout the software development lifecycle in Jira
• Troubleshoot and debug user issues with applications
• Collaborate with Development and Product teams to identify parameters, environment configs and edge cases

Who you are:

• Have 2 – 4 years of relevant experience in previous QA roles
• Attained a Bachelor’s degree, strong preference for relevant fields (Computer Science, Management Information Systems/Services, Computer Information Systems etc.)
• Experience within an agile environment
• Have solid technical troubleshooting skills & experience
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps or another significant bug tracking and project management system
• Experience using a test management tool.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience testing APIs
• Experience writing code
• Experience with automated testing using Selenium, Cypress, or any other framework

Learn more about our tech organization! Don’t worry if your experience or background doesn’t match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you.

Please note that unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this position. AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.